The City of Ottawa should consider taking over the operations of the Kanata Golf and Country Club in the same way it has created other arm’s-length organizations to oversee its assets, according to the former municipal politician who signed an agreement 37 years ago to protect the Kanata green space. Marianne Wilkinson has only been out of politics for about two weeks and she’s already back in the thick of it, educating Coun. Jenna Sudds, her successor in Kanata North, about the governance history of the golf course, now that owner ClubLink wants to tear up the land.Continue reading
Monthly Archives: December 2018
City in ‘driver’s seat’ on Kanata golf course future, Wilkinson says
A legal agreement from the 1980s stands between ClubLink and its plans to put housing on the Kanata Golf and Country Club, and also gives the City of Ottawa clout to decide what happens, according to the former Kanata mayor who signed the document.Continue reading
GIBBONS: Is ClubLink’s Kanata proposal a bit of good green space spoiled?
This is a fight about green space and about property values. It’s about citizens’ voices in the development process. It’s also about trying to protect the very ideas that created Kanata in the first place, although many of those ideas are already under assault as developers slash forests to the ground and transform a communityContinue reading
Kanata Golf and Country Club could be bulldozed to make way for housing
ClubLink confirmed Friday that it was partnering with Minto Communities and Richcraft Homes to redevelop Kanata Golf and Country Club with new homes. The trio is planning a community consultation beginning in early 2019. The golf course’s operating costs are rising and fewer golfers are teeing off during the season, ClubLink says, suggesting there could be “greater community benefit” in using the golf course for something else.
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