San Francisco’s plan to renovate the landmark Alister MacKenzie-designed Sharp Park Golf Course took another step forward today, with a favorable decision from the San Mateo County Superior Court.
Golfers from Alister MacKenzie designed courses around the world gathered to try their hand at muni golf at Sharp Park, the world’s only MacKenzie-designed seaside public links.
The struggle to preserve and protect the historic Sharp Park Golf Course has made notable progress in the last few weeks. Local media outlets are taking note.
On May 28, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Garrett Wong dismissed the lawsuit Wild Equity Institute, et al vs. City and County of San Francisco, finding that San Francisco’s environmental review has been adequate. Work began here this week at the historic Sharp Park Golf Course on the first stage of a combined habitat recovery and golf renovation project intended to safeguard endangered frogs and snakes, while renovating the landmark Alister MacKenzie-designed public links.
Less water... dry fairways... longer drives... It's all good.
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The Commission’s unanimous vote to grant the Sharp Park permit application came on the motion of Commissioner Carole Groom, who commented: “It is evident that you can do both, you can save the snake, save the frog, preserve and protect the snake and the frog, and also preserve and protect a historic golf course.”
California’s Coastal Commission will hold a public hearing Thursday, April 16, 9:00 a.m. in San Rafael on the Sharp Park Pump House Project – the first stage of the City’s plan to renovate Sharp Park Golf Course and improve habitat for the threatened California red-legged frog and San Francisco garter snake living in wetlands adjacent to some of the golf course fairways. You can help.
A four-year-old lawsuit brought by a collection of environmentalist groups to close Sharp Park Golf Course came to an end here Wednesday, March 25, when a 3-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed the appeal in Wild Equity vs. City and County of San Francisco.
Sharp Park Golf Course – the 83-year-old public masterpiece of famed golf architect Alister MacKenzie – was the subject of oral argument Wednesday, March 11 at the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in the matter of Wild Equity vs. City and County of San Francisco.
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