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To local Carlsbad taxpayers:

FORE!

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“Sometimes when you make a wrong decision . . . you have to go back and change the decision,” Tanner said.

Mayor Bud Lewis recounted the decisions that led to the course's $68 million construction cost, including requirements by environmental resource agencies to establish habitat in half of the course's 400 acres.

The budget includes $510,000 for habitat and $1.1 million to pay down debt in 2009.