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supported her request. <br />Mr Holycross summarized the staff report, which. <br />contained the following case against landmark status <br />for the golf course: <br />s <br />--it wasn"t Ancluded on the Indiana Hi *toric Sites & <br />Strluctures.SUrvey. To be eligible, a site2had to rate <br />--it had been altered in 1923 by encroachments from <br />Riley High School <br />--the.identity of the golf course designer had -not, <br />Been established <br />-7it was not -the site of an important historical event <br />.--it had no unusual merit as an example of <br />: <br />-neighborhood culture, and had little educational value <br />.--the land bore no traces of - the life of a - significant <br />person. <br />For similar reasons, Mr. Holycross continued, the golf. <br />course wasn't.eliqib..le for placement on the National.' <br />Register of Historic Places. <br />Mr. Oxian asked for comments. A woman asked why- the <br />HPC wished to table the issue <br />ssue instead of voting on it. <br />Mr. Oxian said tabling gave the HPC the opportunity to <br />work on the alternative proposals mentioned above. At <br />this point, however, tabling was still only a <br />proposal. The woman then declared that she wanted to <br />see the petition defeated; the golf course simply <br />wasn't a historical site. <br />Ms. Pat Schafer of the Riley -at -Ewing Association then <br />read a statement opposing the landmark petition. in <br />brief: <br />--the fate of Riley High School was still far from . . <br />sealed, and steps were being taken to keep it at Ewing <br />--landmarking the golf course would eliminate several <br />planning options, making it 'even less likely that the <br />school would remain where it was <br />--the-HPC-should avoid getting involved in,.the heated <br />polit-ica,l-,--s1tuation surrounding the relocation of <br />Riley. <br />Mr. Haasthen said he wanted to maintain a good <br />r.elationshAp between the HPC and his organization, the <br />Distr.ict-,Golf Association. For this reason, he now <br />thought it best to withdraw his petition. <br />-a-ga-In requested-' appr-ova1­to'-w1-tfi­draw the <br />petition: Mr. Eide.asked what -,difference existed <br />between withdrawing the petition and voting it down. <br />Mr.. Oxian said withdrawing the petition free'd <br />�77' <br />