Nuns’ Island golf owner digs in his heels
Even though the operators of Golf de L’Île-des-Sœurs have made a mockery of what a public golf course should be, and broken several rules laid out in the emphyteutic lease, the operator is openly mocking the borough mayor and his attempt to end his deal with them.
dwgs 09:15 on 2019-09-06 Permalink
Sounds like the golf course’s lawyers were much sharper than anyone on municipal side.
Matt D 09:36 on 2019-09-06 Permalink
Someone should vandalize the shit out of that golf course
Uatu 10:36 on 2019-09-06 Permalink
Welp I guess it’s time to cut off the water and electricity, erm, I mean do some infrastructure work as well as repair the road to and from the site
Ian 11:16 on 2019-09-06 Permalink
Well… maybe the borough should have looked at the lease more carefully. I mean the guy is right, the difference between a private and a public golf course is very specific. It doesn’t look like he’s broken any rules, and typical of the city when enough complaints are made they start posturing but if the law doesn’t back them up, they need to shut up.
I mean don’t get me wrong, Guillaume is clearly a grade A asshole, but the city has no business harassing a private citizen complying with the law. Now if the laws are changed, that’s a whole different matter, and they obviously should be – but this guy would obviously have to be grandfathered in.
Clearly Verdun needs to be a little more careful in the future, especially with the redevelopment of Nun’s Island on the horizon.
Kate 12:07 on 2019-09-06 Permalink
Is Nuns’ island going to be redeveloped? Most of what’s there isn’t all that old.
Ian Rogers 12:46 on 2019-09-06 Permalink
I was hearing some talk on CBC radio about redesigning the area around the REM to accommodate contemporary urban planning, as a kind of direction the future might take for the area in general.
Faiz Imam 17:35 on 2019-09-06 Permalink
Yeah, the area next to the highway is currently older midrise office towers, and there is a large retail area. Both have acres of parking. All of that is gonna be replaced with the sort of new high density mixed use stuff we’ve argued about multiple times before.
But the residential areas farther away are NIMBY central, those houses are condos are not going anywhere, and that golf course is very unlikely to get build up. We should at least hope that it’ll get converted into an actually public park.
With the new station, that entire secluded area is only a rail+ short bus ride away. Could be pretty nice, but again, the locals bought those houses because they were secluded.