Action on Development of Golf Course Delayed
The Los Angeles Board of Recreation and Parks Commissioners on Wednesday put off granting the city’s Bureau of Sanitation the authority to develop a golf course atop the closed Lopez Canyon Landfill.
The move delays the release of a bid request for the development of the course, proposed for about 55 acres. Former Councilman Richard Alarcon had supported the course as a beneficial use for the landfill, which stopped accepting trash in 1996.
The board decided that more work is needed on the bid document for golf course development, which was prepared by the Sanitation Bureau, said commission Secretary Sandy Gandolfo. Staff members at the recreation department will help prepare the bid request.
“Our staff has more expertise [in preparing such a document] than theirs does,” Gandolfo said.
The confusion over which department will take the lead arose late last year. The city’s Sanitation Bureau, part of the Department of Public Works, owns the landfill. The public works commissioners had approved release of a bid request in October, but the city attorney’s office then determined that the recreation department had jurisdiction.
Gandolfo estimated that the matter will be returned to the recreation commissioners in March.
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