DULUTH — The city’s planning commission took a major step toward opening up another 230 acres of land at the former Lester Park Golf Course to potential development Tuesday night.

While 37.5 acres of the idled municipal golf course had already been placed on the market, members of the Duluth Planning Commission were asked Tuesday to sign off on a resolution that could make much of the remaining 230 acres of land there available for reuse, as well.

At present, that larger chunk of land is zoned as parkland, and any sale would first need to receive the blessing of no fewer than seven of the planning commission’s nine members.

A special meeting was called Tuesday to consider the matter, after a meeting earlier in the month lacked adequate attendance to reach the needed threshold of suppo

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