KIMBERLY - To the people who live around the Pleasant Valley Golf Course, Carl Feldhusen just can't be trusted.

And they'll fight any attempt by him to build a new subdivision on what was once the golf course's back nine holes, they said Wednesday night at a neighborhood meeting.

Scott Allen, a senior planner with The Land Group, and two Realtors from Magic Valley Realty held the meeting at Kimberly Elementary School to hear what existing residents support doing with the land. The residents wasted no time making their feelings clear, asking just minutes into the presentation why Feldhusen didn't bother to attend.

Their gripes with the developer go back years. People first moved in around the course in about 1996, for a short time enjoying the full 18 holes. But the course soon fell into disrepair and the back nine holes are now choked with weeds and abandoned because it wasn't feasible for Feldhusen to keep them open, Realtor Carlette Macklin said.

Macklin said before Wednesday's meeting that a subdivision was only one of several options for the land. But the only handouts passed out Wednesday evening were of a preliminary design for a 36-lot, 68-acre subdivision. Allen told residents they had three options on the table: more houses, leaving the area as green space or bringing back the golf course.

The residents overwhelming demanded the golf-course back, favoring the open space as a backup option. But Allen made it clear right away that he didn't actually see it as an option, arguing that 40 to 50 percent of golf courses nationwide are probably bankrupt in the current economy.

"It's not coming back," he said.

Residents let loose a litany of complaints throughout the evening. Feldhusen, they said, dug sprinkler systems out of 50-foot easements and didn't fill in the holes; he had to be forced to pave several roads; he roto-tilled the golf course after promising to save it. Though they all wanted the course back, none wanted to have to maintain it or any open space - that, they said, was Feldhusen's responsibility.

Clint Parks, acting president of Pleasant Valley's homeowners' association, spoke up the most, arguing the course would have survived if Feldhusen had cared for it. He showed Allen a petition he later said has signatures from three-fourths of the area's homeowners opposing any more houses, as well as a letter to from Twin Falls County Planning and Zoning Director Bill Crafton arguing that a zoning change is not in the county's best interest.

On top of his issues with Feldhusen, Parks argued the land - listed through Magic Valley - is overpriced.

"It'll never sell at $425,000," Parks said.

The Realtors spoke up late in the meeting, asking if current residents would be interested in buying up additional land near their homes and noting the land hadn't actually been appraised yet. Though the people who seemed interested weren't willing to pay the current asking price, the agents seemed happy with what they heard.

"To me, that is wonderful news," Magic Valley co-owner Kathleen Hale said.