What's not to like about the Bayou District Foundation working to create "a new mixed income community, complete with schools and recreation facilities, in the old St. Bernard housing community?"

What's not to like about the Bayou District using golf as "an organizing theme as well as an ongoing funding source for special programs designed to revitalize the distressed public housing community, " all of it aimed at "allowing low-income families of the neighborhood to work their way out of poverty?"

Nothing whatsoever.

However, when it comes to the role golf, and City Park, are being asked to play in this laudable venture, I have a problem.

Two-plus hours of peaceful exchange between those who favor a $46 million golf complex at City Park and those who don't turned up par for the course Tuesday.

Whether opponents of the master plan stemmed momentum already generated by the Bayou District Foundation to transform hundreds of acres into an elite golfing destination remains to be seen.

A decision could be made as early as March 24, when the City Park Board of Commissioners meets at the Pavilion of the Two Sisters. If approved, construction on Phase 1 of the project could begin this year.