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October 2, 1987 News 985-2131 Classified 986-6222 Distribution 986-1337 88 pages 25¢

WEST VANCOUVER District is studying a proposal from
a West Vancouver businessman to build what could be a
36-hole golf course on a 350-acre parcel of municipal land
on Hollyburn Mountain just off Cypress Bowl Road at the

2,300-foot elevation level.

Director of planning for West
Vancouver Steve Nicholls said he is
currently studying the proposal
and will present a report to council
on the environmental and social
impact of such a project.

A March 1984 report into the
recreational requirements for
undeveloped areas of West Van-
couver concluded there was no
room for new golf facilities below
the 1,200-foot level, but ‘there is
fast and easy access to the already
reserved golf course area in the
lower Hollyburn region for sum-
mer golf’’, which is the area envi-
sioned for the course by Robert
Annable, president of Ancore In-

_. ternational (Canada) Ltd.

Annable said the need for a new
public golf facility in West Van-
couver has grown with the
municipality’s population and
golf's popularity.

“West Vancouver is one of the
few municipalities that does not
have an 18-hole public golf
course,’? Annable said. ‘‘And a
community as affluent as West
Vancouver should have 18 holes of
public golf. There have been no
new holes of golf built in West
Vancouver for 50 years. The
course availability for young
golfers or those wanting to learn
the game is just not there.’”

Annable said figures show the
Lower Mainland is currently short
500,000 rounds of golf per year.

But Save Cypress Bow! Commit-
tee spokesman John Beltz said
Wednesday a golf course in the
area would increase traffic up the
mountain, ‘‘and I would say it
would be inconsistent with the
municipal pian for the area. It
should be set aside for
wilderness-oriented activities not

By TIMOTHY RENSHAW
News Reporter

city-style sports like golf.’

Annable estimated that, depen-
ding on the final configuration of
the golf course, the development
could take up to two years to
complete and cost several million
dollars.

The combination public-private
golf course project would be built

ANCORE International Ltd.
president Robert Annable...‘ West
Vancouver is one of the few
municipalities that does not have
18 holes of pubtic golf.”

by Ancore’s subsidiary Hollyburn
Ridge Golf Ctub Holdings
(HRGCH).

Annable said Ancore’s three,
six-storey condominium develop-
ment that will be built above the
Upper Levels near Cypress Bow!
Road had no specific connection
with the course proposal, ‘‘but yes

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