Park board commissioner seeks review of publicly owned golf courses
The agenda for next week’s park board meeting is once again teeing up what’s become a perennial debate in big Canadian cities: as land in urban centres becomes increasingly scarce, are publicly owned golf courses the best use of space?
A golf-course financial sustainability review conducted by the city in 2001 suggests that is not a new trend, reporting that attendance at the three city-owned courses had decreased between the 1980s and that time. Demers emphasized, however, that city-owned golf course land should be used only for park-and-recreation uses, and not converted to other purposes like housing.
“Our sports fields are pretty much maxed out everywhere,” Demers said. “This is not about golf as a sport, as much as it’s about the land we use for golf, as that land has an intrinsic value, and I’m not sure we’re putting it to its best use at the moment.”
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