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' Commission members from the obligation to take a stand on the issue. Under any circumstances /tabling, ' withdrawal, voting -down), the petition could be reintroduced in the future, Mr.Qakley said he'd prefer a vote. A'definite vote would clarify the HPC^m stand on this issue. He ` endorsed Mr. Holycroas`s report, 4 woman said vote should be taken because it would ` prove to the School Board that the landmark issue was closed. Mr. Eide said he maw no reason to perpetuate the issue; the golf course would never meet landmark criteria. He moved to recommend against landmmrking the golf course. Mrs. Petraas seconded the motion.. Mrs. 'porleder said she would prefer a oositive motion. Mr. Eide -acoordinglY withdrew his motion' Mrs. Sporleder moved to recommend landmark status for the golf course. Mr' YVelsheimar seconded the motion. Mr. Dxian then made a statement. First, he said be . thought it a mistake to say the golf course should not be saved. Second, he said he couldn't understand the need to choose between the golf course and the high school --neither should be destroyed. A school's quality had nothing to do with the number of acres it occupied; other factors made aa school good -or bad. The decision to demolish a high school simply because it stood on less than ZO acres baffled him: perhaps the School Board wished to move all the schools from the City to the County area. Mrs. Sporleder then questioned 1-2 statements in the staff report. She said she considered the location of the golf course --completely surrounded by the city --unusual. Mrs. Choitz^pointed out that, originally, the golf course lay in an outlying rural area; development had come later. Mrs. Sporledar said that, nevertheless, it was unusual to have a green space in the center of a city. Mr.Oakley remarked that, even if Riley High School - annexed part of the golf course, 65% of it would remain. According to option #5, (a set of plans submitted by Dr. Sriver that kept Riley at Ewing), the school's east end would be extended by no more than 80,000 feet. This would not run all the way across the golf course. Moreover, the trees to be removed were not remarkably old. Mr. Haas said South Send was lucky to have a 9 -hole