Kanata Lakes residents want city to take over golf course
Posted Jan 23, 2019 05:34:00 PM.
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An idea to turn the Kanata Lakes golf course into a housing development has nearby residents hoping the city will get back into the golf course business.
Residents upset by the thought of much of their neighbourhood's greenspace being turned into a subdivision point to a 1981 agreement which says if the owner wanted to close the golf course, the former City of Kanata would get the land at no cost.
“So the city (of Ottawa) can acquire this for nothing,” said Neil Thomson, president, Kanata Beaverbrook Community Association. “The only privso is that, as the rest of the agreement says, the property must be run as a golf course.”
The City of Ottawa got out of the golf course business in 2014, after losing hundreds of thousands of dollars running the Pine View Golf Course. Thomson is mindful of that history, but says there are neighbourhood residents who are ClubLink members, who are willing to help save the Kanata Lakes course.
“They would be happy to set up a management corporation to run the golf course on behalf of the city and guarantee them a dividend,” Thomson told Ottawa Today with Mark Sutcliffe on 1310 NEWS. “So, this will not cost taxpayers a cent; we're very confident of that.”
Thomson says it's not clear whether the 1981 agreement's clause has already been triggered by ClubLink's public musings on the future of the course.
