{NORTH SHORE A OWNED AND MANAGED Serr perrecrrres EERE Pe SURES do atts acta anata oon anette been ae Cultural policy explored PAGE 13 © Winter starts | blooming Fl PAGE 21. ages stat RESPONDING TO overwhelming support from local golf enthusiasts, West Vancouver Distric: Council voted unani- mously Monday night to call for proposals to tease up to 350 acres of municipal land on Hollyburn Mountain for an 18 to 36-hole public goif course. The decision followed an initial Aug. 25 letter of proposal to West Vancouver Council from Ancore International Ltd. president Robert Annable, and a subsequent Oct. 2 News story outlining An- nable’s plan to build a golf course at the 2300-foot elevation of the mountain just below the Cypress Bowl ski area. ANCORE INTERNATIONAL Ltd. president Robert Annable: “Council has made a good deci- sior....”” “Council has made a good deci- sion,’’ Annable said after the meeting. ‘‘They have approached this thing very carefully.”’ Since the story appeared in the News, Annable said he has receiv- ed over 150 written and telephone responses ‘‘and nobody who has contacted me has been against the plan.” The staff report on Annable’s proposal concludes that “development of the site for a golf course and other recreational uses is considered to be of major poten- tial public benefit. It is one of the few areas where such a use is fea- sible, meets a high demand and could complement other public recreation and park goals.” “It’s been in the background for a good many years,”’ Ald. Pat Boname said. ‘‘It's time to take the step.”” The proposed use of the site as a golf course has been under con- sideration by West Vancouver since 1968, but doubts about the financial viability and concern over the environmental impact of courses contained in previous plans have kept the idea from moving beyond proposals. Under Annable’s proposal, the public and private course would be built by Ancore’s Hollyburn Ridge Golf Club Holdings subsidiary. By TIMOTHY RENSHAW and MAUREEN CURTIS The 18, 27 or 36-hole course would be for both public and private golfers and include a res- taurant-banquet facility, a pro shop, instruction centre, driving range and a nine-hole pitch and putt course. Reserve use of the course would be limited to 50 per cent. During the winter the course would be tracked for cross-country skiing and include facilities for sight-impaired skiers. Annable said West Vancouver is in dire need of an 18-hole golf course. That need has also been express- ed by B.C. Golf Association presi- dent Lorne Beauchamp, who said he would like to see “two or three’? new golf courses on the North Shore. “Governments spend millions of dolars promoting things like Par- ticipaction, but no areas are being put aside (where people can get in- volved in such programs),’’ Beauchamp said. The North Shore’s only public golf course is Gleneagles, which has nine holes. Ald. Rod Duy expressed concern that the 350-acre site stipulated in Annable’s proposal was much larger than that required for a golf course. WEST VANCOUVER Ald. Rod Day: “Its too open-ended... would hate tc see any housing meve in.”’ “It’s too open-ended,’’ he said. ‘I would hate to see any housing move in.’” But West Vancouver Mayor Don Lanskail said, ‘‘That has been rul- ed out. There is to be no overnight accommodation of any kind.”’