Comment 116751

By JPO (anonymous) | Posted March 03, 2016 at 12:03:08

If you were to diagram the public use of the Chedoke golf course, I will guarantee that the stretch comprising the rail trail is more heavily used than the golf course. Yet the golf course is 100x larger. It's the nature of the game. So on an intensity basis, setting aside the questions of economic value, the golf course is plainly a poor use of land.

Of course value isn't just economic potential or even intensity of use. But you have to be able to pinpoint the value. This is prime environmental land as well. It could be added to the Niagara Escarpment area and increase biodiversity. It could become a centre for forest schools. Either of those would be great. So would development if people decide that's a better use of the land.

The problem with golf is it's low intensity, bad for the environment, and not particularly healthy even for the players, who almost exclusively use carts. Ban the carts and the seniors angle is gone.

My preference would be to bring it back to nature. The starting point for this discussion was completely flawed.

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