DULUTH — After years of debate since the Lester Park Golf Course closed in 2020, city officials aim to hatch a plan for its future within nine months.

The Duluth City Council unanimously voted Monday night to authorize a land-use study for the former municipal golf course.

The city already handed control of 37.5 acres of the course over to the Duluth Economic Development Authority in 2023, in hopes of bringing more housing to the community. But another 200-plus acres of land remains idle.

Several residents suggested the remaining larger portion of the golf course should remain green space, including Rich Saffert, who said he and others who had fought to preserve the former golf course as undeveloped land had agreed to support the transfer of a relatively small portion of the course to D

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