I just wanted to thank Frances Flynn for her thoughtful letter published in the Sept. 5 edition of Oak Bay News, Oak Bay golf courses could help meet housing targets.
Her suggestions and comments certainly ring true to me. For example, Oak Bay is currently considering building housing in Carnarvon Park, a park that has served our community well for more than 100 years and yet one that may well be slated for a housing development.
Where is the justice when, as Frances points out, Oak Bay currently has three golf courses, two of which cater to the desires of a small number of well-to-do members and patrons. Two of the three golf courses occupy enough land to accommodate a substantial number of new mixed housing units causing minimal impact on the rest of the community.
Such a precedent for this kind of development has already been established by the Musqueam Native Band who will soon be building a substantial number of housing units on the former UBC golf course lands. If the NDP government is going to force us to add housing to our geographically challenged community, giving up one golf course rather than forcing higher density through out Oak Bay would seen like a good place to start.
Bruce Cline
Oak Bay
