tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63885080081388598.post8552349860657066203..comments2022-05-15T14:35:24.421-07:00Comments on Stuart Mackinnon's BetterParks: Reality Check: Langara Golf CourseStuart Mackinnonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11381638078069146364noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63885080081388598.post-53718866628743100372012-09-21T09:11:41.336-07:002012-09-21T09:11:41.336-07:00If you actually took the time to visit the clubhou...If you actually took the time to visit the clubhouse and see the rewards for sustainability or talk to the golfers you would find that the course has far more wildlife then I've ever seen at any park, including QE park. There are coyotes, bats, turtles, eagles, hawks, woodpeckers....I could go on and on.<br />And also the course is a certified Audubon Society golf course.The groudskeepers are innovative and environmentally conscience - even building bat houses to naturally keep the mosquito and insect problem under bay.<br />I don't understand the comments by people that there are not enough parks. There's a park just across the street (Cambie Park), Tisdal Park just up the street etc. <br />As for reducing it to a nine hole course.....that would be the demise of the entire tract.<br />Just leave it be! It's fine the way it is.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63885080081388598.post-57871465405100842092012-07-05T00:04:55.450-07:002012-07-05T00:04:55.450-07:00I agree. I don't object to a study of what the...I agree. I don't object to a study of what the neighbourhood and stakeholders (includling the golfers!)would like. Perhaps there is a demand for a shorter, 9-hole course; my parents when they were retired preferred this, both because it cost less, and once they were older, still walkable (no cart needed). I would add, that in my interactions with people in south-central Vancouver, the most common "asks" I've heard are: (1)extension of and linking up of the river walks (currently only piecemeal, and mostly to the west (Deering Island, McCleery Golf Course, Fraser River Park)with nothing much to the east until you get to Gladstone Park east of Victoria Drive! and (2)Swimming pool, since both the outdoor pools at Marpole and Sunset Community Centres have been closed (Marpole in the mid-1990's, Sunset last operated 5 years ago).Anita Romaniukhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07894710040173342136noreply@blogger.com