Verdun aims at Nuns’ Island golf course
In 2007, Verdun leased out some Nuns’ Island land to be used as a public golf course. Since then, the operator has started charging $10,000 a year and has been flooding nearby houses with bright lights at night. Verdun plans to have it shut down for breaking its rules, but there’s bound to be a legal fight.
Not the first time this has been reported. Radio-Canada had a piece almost a year ago and there have been reports about the egregious floodlighting since.
Why is Verdun frittering scarce land on golf when it could use either more housing or a decent general park in that area, anyway?
John B 15:43 on 2019-08-29 Permalink
I believe it’s on an old garbage dump, so that limits, somewhat, what it can be used for without serious contamination expenses.
Knowing that, and viewing things through a 2005-2007 lens, I can see how creating a “public” golf course that’s not too expensive to use, is fairly self-contained, resource-wise, with filtering ponds & stuff to maybe even improve the surrounding environnement, would make sense. Done right maybe the land would end up partially decontaminated!