The local news is full of stories concerning various municipalities boosting the purchase of private land in their town or city upon which to locate a branch of the University of Washington here in the North Puget Sound area.
Another story that has received less ink (but is an ongoing irritant to many citizens) is the ongoing subsidy the taxpayers of Everett provide to operate the Everett municipal golf courses that do not pay their own expenses and take up many acres of prime city land.
I suggest that turning Legion Golf Course in north Everett into a University of Washington branch campus site could be an elegant solution of the siting problem. It is next door to Everett Community College, which already provides significant lower division classes to students who will go on to the university.
More significantly, it would put this beautiful, extremely valuable, yet essentially underused piece of land into a gem of a public facility used by literally thousands of people for the very public purpose of higher education. At the same time, its use would not take another large piece of private land off the tax rolls since it is already not paying taxes but is consuming tax money.
David T. Patterson
Everett
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