Jim York is back with a new plan for his Point View property (aka The Old Pony Club.) According to his application for a Conditional Use Permit, he wants to grow avocados, citrus fruit and a vineyard on one part of it, and build a two-and-a-half-acre 9-hole executive golf course and event center in another area.
Access to the golf course would be via a new paved driveway from Palos Verdes Drive South to the Cook Shack area. The Cook Shack is no longer much of a shack, by the way, but is now a white building ringed with white holiday lights that sits adjacent to a lovely flagstone patio with a large fountain at one end. Two space heaters sit in front of the fountain and beside an enormous built-in bar-be-que, and it's all enclosed by a curving rock wall that overlooks one of the best views on the Southern California coastline.
The golf course is proposed for a "gently sloping area about 500 feet west of the existing restroom/cook shack area and south of an existing avocado orchard," according to the CUP application. The Point View Golf Course plans call for two greens, sand traps and nine holes.
Information about the proposal is contained in the June 9, 2010 Weekly Administrative Report from Community Development Director Joel Rojas.
According to the report, section 17.02.025 of the RPV Development Code allows "the growing of crops and/or fruits on more than one acre for commercial purposes," and "golf courses, driving ranges and ancillary uses" in a residential zoning district with the approval of a Conditional Use Permit. The report notes that staff reviewed the application with the city attorney, and "given that the city code does not specifically define a "golf course" or "ancillary use," it was determined that the application could be accepted for processing.
At this time, the application is incomplete. According to the report, York must demonstrate to the staff and the city's geologist that the application meets the exception criteria of the City's Landslide Moratorium Ordinance. If and when that is done, the application will be subject to a review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) before being processed.
Just what the peninsula needs...another golf course!!! Is anyone in the city concerned with water use here? We're at a statewide crisis with our current water levels, and this guy wants to put in non-native grass and water-consuming fruit trees?
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