Buena Park : Promoters Withdraw Golf Course Proposal
The promoters of a controversial plan to replace the Big Tee golf course and driving range with a shopping center and condominiums withdrew their proposal Monday, a few hours before a City Council public hearing on the matter.
The proposal, strongly opposed by some neighbors and golfers, drew a standing-room-only crowd to the council chambers.
But instead of a debate, the audience heard a letter submitted by the developer, Hughes Investments of Newport Beach, asking that the proposal be withdrawn pending study of alternatives.
“We are studying the possibility of retaining the golf course facility and redesigning the shopping center, thereby eliminating the residential portion of the project,” said the letter signed by David De Pierro, a partner in the firm.
The 23-acre triangular site lies between Beach and La Mirada boulevards at the city’s northern boundary. For 27 years it has contained a nine-hole pitch-and-putt golf course and a driving range.
De Pierro said Tuesday that his firm will try to maintain the golf course but convert the driving range into a 120,000-square-foot community shopping center.
“There are people concerned with the driving range as well, but we can’t give them everything,” De Pierro said.
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