For once an increase in costs that i don't have to subsidize...
so far anyways...
it is about time that user pays or doesn't use!

I have to agree with Gofaster. Pine valley is my golf course. I golf there at least two days a week. Well operated and I have to say I dont miss the pine. But I sure miss the driving range. All we have now is a big parking lot. Thanks to our City.

Cheers

Be nice if they could balance the books at the Multiplex.

Cheers

Enjoy this course while you can. I suspect that the Cities long range plan is to close this course and build another one further out. This will allow them to sell off the land to Big Box or some other developers and make huge bucks. Much like they did with the Recreational Land along highway 16. They relocated the Ball Fields in an old slough, and in some old gravel pits. Land that cannot be used for development, and sold off the Highway 16 land for big bucks. I wonder where the money went?

Once the Pr George Golf Course is relocated and that property is developed, there will be nothing left in that area but John McInnis School and the par3 golf course. I suggest that their days are numbered.

Now why in the world would the City build another par 3? Is there some requirement like it's a cemetery that PG own a par 3 or what? The cost to build today is more than the city would ever get out of the sale and operation of a new property. Looks to me like some people think we should subsidize their golf.

and you have it there yama...
they enjoy and we pay....so far it seem that outwardly anyways the golfers are going to pay.....
the operative word there is outwardly...

Come on you guys wake up. The City proposed to build a new Par 3 a number years ago and it met with some pretty stiff resistance from the golfers at the present Par 3 so they backed off.

I am suggesting that they will try again to relocate the present Par 3 because the sale of the land that the Par 3 sits on will generate a lot more revenue than it would cost to build a new one, and there will be a net gain in dollars to the City. Much like they did with the ball fields along Highway 16. Does anyone know how much money the City got for the land that they sold to Canadian Super Store, Wood Wheaton, The Brick, and the Sandman to name a few. I am sure it was a lot more than it cost to relocate the ball fields, and horseshoe pits to useless land.

A Par 3 Golf Course with a driving range is basically self sufficient, which is more than you can say for the CN Centre, and various other endeavours in this City that costs taxpayers Millions.