{"id":416471,"date":"2026-07-29T12:32:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T12:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/416471\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T12:32:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T12:32:20","slug":"huge-driving-range-a-poor-use-of-east-harbor-island-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/416471\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge driving range a poor use of East Harbor Island \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cTopgolf project would put Port at financial risk\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/07\/24\/topgolf-project-would-put-port-at-financial-risk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 24<\/a>): I was a youth golfer on a nine-hole municipal course in a Midwest farm town, and spent an inordinate amount of time searching for my hooked golf balls in the longest fairway\u2019s adjacent cornfield. In our tiny town, the clubhouse was a community center, and golf was available to everyone interested, unlike San Diego and other large cities where it\u2019s too expensive for most. The Port\u2019s proposed 10-acre Topgolf driving range for East Harbor Island, with 170-foot-high netting, is highly questionable for more than its environmental impacts. That the project has advanced this far speaks to short-sightedness by Port officials who are overlooking the value and purpose of public-use land. Golf participation does not span the population\u2019s demographics. It\u2019s a wonderful sport but too expensive for most. Although I understand the appeal to avid golfers, the acreage proposed for Topgolf should be designated for more community-inclusive purposes.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Beth Givens, Linda Vista<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cTopgolf project would put Port at financial risk\u201d (July 24): I was a youth golfer on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1564,975,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-416471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinion","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}