A city insider has suggested to Inside Alameda that the real reason city staff are beating up on the golf course operations is that they want to close all or part of the golf course and turn some of the land over to Mayor Johnson friend and developer Ron Cowan, so he can still build his 104 (or more) homes that he was denied for Village VI when he asked to re-zone roughly 12 acres of land on Bay Farm Island from commercial to residential.