REQUEST FOR DECISION
DATE: June 05, 2017 Report No. DEV-17-021
TO: Laurie Hurst, Chief Administrative Officer
FROM: Bill Brown, Director of Development Services
SUBJECT:
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Application from the Gorge Vale Golf Club to remove approximately 5.0 ha of land from the Agricultural Land Reserve
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RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
That Council pass the resolution, attached as Schedule "A" to Staff Report DEV-17-021, stating that they do not object to the application by the Gorge Vale Golf Club to remove approximately 5 ha of land from the Agricultural Land Reserve and authorize staff to forward the resolution to the Agricultural Land Commission forthwith.
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RELEVANT POLICY:
Official Community Plan
STRATEGIC RELEVANCE:
The proposed removal of land from the Agricultural Land Reserve does not support any strategic objectives.
BACKGROUND:
The Gorge Vale Golf Club has submitted an application to the Agricultural Land Commission to remove an approximately 5 ha parcel from the Agricultural Land Reserve. As part of the Agricultural Land Commission's application review process, they require a resolution from Council stating whether or not they support the removal of the land from the Agricultural Land Reserve. The parcel is located around the northeast corner of the golf course and is centered around the current club house and parking lot (Schedule "B").
The Official Community Plan designates the proposed expansion area as "Parks and Open Space". The Official Community Plan contains a single statement related to Agricultural Land. This statement is found in Section 1.9.1 and states:
The Township of Esquimalt is an urban community and contains only one parcel of land within the Agricultural Land Reserve [ALR]. That parcel is the Gorge Vale Golf Course which has been used as such since 1930. Golf courses are a permitted use of land in an agricultural land reserve.
Any development of the golf course for other land uses will require the approval ...
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