Editor,
I feel the owners of Peace Portal Golf Course are misunderstood.
From the newspaper reports, I am led to believe we had two avid golf enthusiasts, who were interested not in land development, but in restoring this once beautiful public course to its former glory. It would appear they cobbled together their last $30M or so to complete the purchase, only to find out the course was in even worse condition than they were led to believe.
So what choice did these gentlemen have, but to go to plan B? Request the ALR to release the prime 50 acres of the 200-acre property for what will become Surrey’s most expensive residential real estate.
Then they will donate the balance to the city for parkland, which Surrey has such a shortage of. Considering all the money Surrey council has saved by being so co-operative with the provincial government in the transition from the RCMP to the SPF, they will easily be able to absorb the hundreds of thousands of dollars for the conversion and annual upkeep of the new park without increasing our property taxes.
R.W. Davies, Surrey
