The gold old "we pay taxes" argument. It's not just disc golf. Madison Parks charges fees for cross-country skiing, dog parks, boat launch access and golf courses. They also charge organizations that run soccer, Ultimate, softball, baseball tournaments,etc. It's not just disc golf and it's not just parks. Toll roads come to mind. The people using the disc golf course are paying for its maintenance and capital improvements. This makes a lot of sense to me. Side note...to keep the sport accessible to youth, anyone under age 17 plays for free.
Just because you have a horse in the race doesn't make it the gospel. I find it hilarious that a big city can't keep up its own parks, especially when every small town can make do with their tax base money, and they aren't getting the kickbacks from the federal government that big cities are, and their courses are FREE.
Bird's Ruins is free, and is every bit the course that any of the P2P courses in Madison are (outside of Token, which I haven't played), and is just minutes outside the city. It's a freaking disc golf course...mow the fairways, update a tee pad here and there, get out there with a small chainsaw once a year, and you're good, outside of garbage removal.
You sound stupid when you extol the virtues of paying for CITY PARK courses in multi-use parks. I feel bad for all the big city disc golfers (it's certainly NOT in every bigger city) that have to pay for disc golf because their cities suck at money management.