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Daniel Zurla wants to free would-be-walkers from being forced to use golf carts on municipal courses in the Port Orange-Daytona Beach area of the US - but has failed to get the support of US Courts.

Now he plans to take his case to the people and is to launch his new book, "The Case of a Civil Right: the freedom to walk a public course," at a meeting he has called at a Church in Daytona Beach this week.

According to a report published in the Daytona Beach News Journal on Wednesday, Zurla, a retired businessman, believes that municipal golf courses are public lands held in the public trust and argues that cities cannot deny it's citizens the right to walk on them any more than they can prevent them walking on a sidewalk.
Daniel Zurla wants to free would-be-walkers from being forced to use golf carts on municipal courses in the Port Orange-Daytona Beach area of the US - but has failed to get the support of US Courts.

Now he plans to take his case to the people and is to launch his new book, "The Case of a Civil Right: the freedom to walk a public course," at a meeting he has called at a Church in Daytona Beach this week.

According to a report published in the Daytona Beach News Journal on Wednesday, Zurla, a retired businessman, believes that municipal golf courses are public lands held in the public trust and argues that cities cannot deny it's citizens the right to walk on them any more than they can prevent them walking on a sidewalk.

"Liberty means freedom of choice," Zurla said. "When they mandate the use of golf carts, they are depriving me of liberty."

Judge John Watson dismissed his lawsuit, however, on the grounds that he had failed to prove his constitutional rights were being violated and said no appeals court, least of all the US Supreme courts, would overturn his ruling.

Zurla, who represented himself in court has now exhausted his rights to file further claims and will not be taking the case any further in the courts, though he hopes to see others take over from him.

He is also highly disillusioned with the justice system, saying that the cities of Port Orange and Daytona Beach, never defeated him on the merits of his argument, but won on technicalities or legal "trickery."

In the meantime John Cameron, manager of the Daytona Beach Golf Club, says he sympathizes with golfers who like to walk and adds that his club doesn't have a blanket restriction against walking.

The club, he explains, only restricts walking at peak playing times in the morning, so that it can charge higher cart rates.

The city expects the golf course to pay for itself, Cameron explains and says he has no option but to use this "narrow window of opportunity".

"We have to make money," Cameron said. "It's as simple as that."
 

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