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A tentative agreement may add 100
acres to the urban growth boundary for the proposed golf course
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Building may soon begin on another nine holes of the proposed
Chehalem Park and Recreation District golf course.
A recent, and until Dec. 8, 2004, tentative, agreement has been
made in mediation between CPRD, Thousand Friends of Oregon and the
Land Conservation and Development Commission (LCDC).
The agreement, if accepted by the LCDC board, would allow 100 of
the 189 acres CPRD superintendent Don Clements first wanted accepted
into the Newberg Urban Growth Boundary for an 18-hole golf course.
“There is a hearing in December,” he said. “There will be a
proposal to approve that we bring in 100 acres to the UGB.”
As part of the agreement, CPRD will not request the UGB be extended
to cover the remainder of the property slated for a final nine-holes
for at least three more years.
Since 1994 Clements, has worked to convince various agencies, from
the City of Newberg and Yamhill County Commissioners to Thousand
Friends of Oregon and the Department of LCDC, that establishing a
27-hole golf course in Newberg would be a positive addition to the
town.
Last August that idea was kick-started with a donation of 83.24
acres, worth about $9 million, by various branches of the Werth
family to the CPRD to begin the first nine holes. Golfers should be
able to tee-off in May 2005.
But there was still some controversy over the remaining propesed
18-holes.
Thousand Friends was concerned about the preservation of farmland
and asserted that the area, which is currently leased to farmers
growing hay and filberts, should continue to be used for that
purpose, Clements said.
“What we did is we sat down and talked about it and decided to
amend the application to put in another nine (holes),” he said.
If the agreement is approved, the leases on the property will
expire after this year, he said. The filberts will remain on the
property until additional acreage is brought into the UGB and
development of the final nine-holes can begin.
Clements said CPRD still has plans to build the 27-hole course in
its entirety, but the district has agreed to not put in another
application for a final UGB amendment for the property in question
for a few years.
“If we put in nine now it will take three years to develop,” he
said. “We don’t know when we’ll apply for (the next amendment) but
definitely not within the next three years.”
Golf courses are normally built in stages, he added.
“It’s something we’ve been working on for a long time,” Clements
pointed out. “It’s important that we get in at least 18 holes and
this will allow us to do it.”
Now Clements must wait to see if the LCDC approves the mediation
agreement.
If approved, the request will be remanded back to the Newberg City
Council and then again to the county for approval before any ground
can be broken.
By Schellene Clendenin, Newberg Graphic reporter
E-mail Schellene at
sclendenin@eaglenewspapers.com
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From Nov.
27,
2004, Newberg Graphic
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