The future of the former Mylora West golf course property is again causing concern for Richmond city council.
City council learned a few weeks ago that the owners of the 32-acre site on No. 5 Road, just north of Williams Road, had been denied a non-farm use application by the Agricultural Land Commission (ALC) for the front 10 acres of the site.
The city has now written to the ALC, seeking clarification on the recent denial of the application and the implication to the city’s No. 5 Road Backlands Policy (because the property is in the Agricultural Land Reserve and falls under the No. 5 Road Backlands policy, the owner must farm the back two-thirds of it, should it be redeveloped, as planned).
The ALC’s South Coast Panel and the City of Richmond had both previously given the green light to the site owner’s development proposal.
However, the ALC’s executive committee denied the application on April 27, prompting the city to request “clarification” as to the denial.
The decades-old course sold for $7 million to Second Sun Realty Fund Ltd. in 2013, It’s understood that the owners are now actively looking for another buyer.
