April 28, 1993 56 pages

$9.5M, 18-hole

A FOUR-year planning
process for a golf course in
the Northlands area of
Seymour is on the back nine
and heading for the
clubhouse.

By Martin Millerchip
Contributing Writer

On Monday night North Van-
couver District Council passed the
three bylaws to third reading that
will amend the district and
Seymour official community plans
and create a comprehensive devel-
opment zone to include:

@ai 133-acre (54 hectare), 18-
hole golf course with a driving:
range, clubhouse, restaurant, cof-
fee shop and lounge;

@® acommunity park;

@ 127 units of housing;

® a secondary school;

@ an elementary school.

The bylaws passed by the ex-
pected 6-1 margin, with only
Coun. Janice Harris continuing
her oppcsition to the $9.5 million
golf course.

The Northlands site is bounded
by Mount Seymour Road to the
east, Northlands Drive to the
west, an extended Hyannis Drive
to the north and Mount Seymour
Parkway to the south.

Mayor Murray Dykeman ‘said
he viewed ‘‘with pride and con-
fidence’ the ‘“‘extensive, thorough
public investigation’ of the golf
course proposal.

“The addition of this to the
Parkgate Centre will mean the
(Seymour) community has come
of age,"’ said Dykeman.

Describing members of the
North Shore Public Golf Course
Society (NSPGCS) as ‘‘heroes’’
for work in pioneering the golf
course concept, Coun. Ernie Crist
predicted that ‘‘20, 50, 100 years
from now they will praise us for
having the foresight.’”

Said NSPGCS spokesman Bill
Ryan, ‘‘We’re delighted that the
crucial matter of zoning has been
completed.”’

NSPGCS technical consultant
Phil Tattersfield said that if con-

HIGHLIGHTS FROM Finance
Minister Don Mazankowski's
1993 federal budget:

@ no new taxes;

@ £30 billion in spending cuts
and savings in five-year
austerity program;

@ $35.5 billion deficit pro-
jected to be reduced to $32.6 in
1993-94;

@ approximately 16,500 civil
service jobs to be cut;

e accumulated national debt

SUTURE

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golf facility

DISTRICT COUNCIL

struction of the course begins this
year, the course could be ready
for full play by the spring of
1995,

Coun. Rick Buchols said that
the golf course will be the only
facility in the district that will pay
for its operating costs.

He reminded residents that they
were paying only $1.75 to use the
Karen Magnussen wave pool while
green fees for Northlands will be
closer to $30, ‘‘not $3.50.”’

But Buchols said he felt no em-
barrassment at providing a facility
that ‘‘our solid citizens’? could af-
ford.

Coun. Jim Cuthbert said that
he preferred the golf course as a
means of maintaining the district's
natural setting. But he said that he
will focus on refinements to the
present layout proposal.

Cuthbert suggested that the pian
should incorporate pedestrian and
cyclist access to the course und
not restrict the public to the pe-
timeter trail.

The golf course design pres-
ented at last week's public hearing
is considered a preliminary con-
cept. Council will seek a final
design upon final adoption of the
bylaws.

Council has made no decision
on how to fund the development
of the golf course other than allo-
cating $1.1! million and $8.47 mil-
lion in the 1993 and 1994 capital
budgets.

Meanwhile, Harris continued to
call for a public referendum on
the issue.

She argued that the loss of rev-
enue to the district from land sales
in 1993 dollars would be about
$50 million and would ‘‘force”’
development in the Cove Cliff
area,

“Here we are dealing with a
major land-use decision and the
taxpayers are not allowed input.

“We lose the opportunity to
plan the last piece of Seymour as
a neighborhood,”’ said Harris.

aR TONCINT

in 1992-93: $459 billion;
@ transfer payments to pro-
vinces increased by an average
of 4%;
@ regional development grants
and contributions to be reduc-
ed by $90 million in 1993-94,
rising to S415 milliei in 1997-
98;
@ regional agencies to be cut
by $100 million per year,

For local response to budget
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