Report commissioned by Winnipeg recommends repurposing city-owned golf courses – Winnipeg | 24CA News
A report commissioned by Winnipeg is recommending repurposing 30 per cent of city-owned golf programs.
In 2020, The Public Service issued a Request for Proposals and employed HTFC Inc. which produced two stories that handle golf land repurposing.
“HTFC evaluated the site conditions, identified recreational gaps in the immediate area, and reviewed the Indigenous history of each golf course.” the report reads.
“Once the due diligence was completed, HTFC outlined a variety of general repurposing options for all City courses and then proposed site-specific opportunities.”
The suggestion was included within the Multi-Year Operating and Capital Budget and on the time, ten of the 12 City programs have been deemed to be in scope, together with:
- Assiniboine Golf Course
- Canoe Club Golf Course
- Crescent Drive Golf Course
- Harbour View Golf Course
- St. Boniface Golf Club
- Transcona Golf Club
- Tuxedo Golf Course
- Wildewood Club
- Windsor Park Golf Course
There are quite a lot of concepts for the way to finest make the most of the land – together with strolling trails across the programs, winter actions within the low season, constructing homeless shelters, or repurposing areas to focus on and acknowledge Indigenous tales.
Winnipeg Mayor Scott Gillingham informed 690 CJOB on Monday the one factor that isn’t an possibility proper now could be turning the programs into residential developments.
“This report was called for back in 2020 and it’s just getting to us now. In the meantime, between 2020… we also made a decision as a council to add a thousand acres of green space over the coming years…. we want to be preserving our green space and in fact adding more.”
Gillingham stated the report is all about how town can maximize the usage of these public lands, similar to discovering a technique to make them useable within the winter.
“Right now our golf courses, when you think of it, the only people really that can access them are those who pay to golf well we know we can do more and it doesn’t take much to think very creatively to look at other options and other recreation options for people.”
“The pandemic saw a resurgence in golf. What remains to be seen is whether that level of interest is going to be sustained in the long term and in the coming years.”
City council will determine the following steps when the report goes earlier than the standing coverage committee and property improvement on Thursday.
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