Fate of disc golf course delayed as Clallam commissioners widen public participation

Published 5:16 am Tuesday, September 16, 2008

PORT ANGELES — Disc golf proposed for Robin Hill Farm Park got a mulligan Monday from Clallam County commissioners, who want more public participation on the plan.

They’ll redesign how government considers such ideas, expecting that 60 to 90 days will elapse before the disc golf squabble returns to them for discussion and a decision.

More than two-dozen people — all but one opposed to disc golf, also known as Frisbee golf — attended the commissioners’ weekly work session Monday.

About half of them spoke to say that Robin Hill Farm Park — located between Port Angeles and Sequim off Dryke Road, a quarter-mile north of U.S. Highway 101 — belonged to them; that is, to hikers, dog walkers and horse riders.

One woman said she’d chosen her house so she’d have the adjacent park in which to ride her horse.

But as she spoke, the issue already was on ice while commissioners find a way to decide disc golf’s future.