Bluff-Top Golf Course Gets Approval to Rebuild
The owners of Ocean Trails Golf Club, where the 18th hole slid into the ocean in June, just weeks before the new luxury course was scheduled to open, have received permission to rebuild from the California Coastal Commission.
“We see this as a vote of confidence for what we are doing at Ocean Trails,” said Ken Zuckerman, co-chief executive of the controversial development.
Developers blamed the slide on leakage from a Los Angeles County sewer line running under the course, a finding tentatively confirmed by city-hired geologists. County sanitation officials have adamantly denied that there was anything wrong with the line.
Zuckerman said restoration work on the course and its bluff-top public bike trail will begin in about two weeks, once developers have final authorization from the city. He hopes to open the course in March. The course’s clubhouse, which was not damaged in the slide, will open in about a month, he added.
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