Golf Course Operations and Certification

Island Coastal Ventures will also adopt a framework of environmental Best Operating Practices (BOP’s) to govern the future maintenance of the course - based on the principles and intents expressed in a 1996 guidebook developed by the Fraser River Action Plan in partnership with Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) entitled, “Greening Your BC Golf Course – A Guide to Environmental Management” – that will mitigate future environmental impacts from the overuse of pesticides, herbicides, and fertilisers. Such BOPs will include adoption of the following measures:

Integrated pest management strategies;
Spill containment, waste materials handling, and pesticide handling / storage protocols; and
Continued runoff quality monitoring to ensure compliance with environmental guidelines for the protection of aquatic life.

Periodic independent certification of the upgraded golf course’s operating / maintenance procedures and environmental performance will be sought through the Audubon Co-operative Sanctuary Program for Golf Courses (ACSPGC) which will ensure that the visionary site management protocols being envisaged as part of this rezoning application will be implemented in future.

Project Status:

The Longlands Development Project has been placed 'on hold' by the Comox Valley Regional District, pending more resolution on the draft Comox Valley Regional Growth Strategy. Island Coastal Ventures Ltd. will seek to go before the EASC again in late spring/early summer of 2010. In the interim, ICV will evaluate its current investment security and is likely to make a public statement soon on it's long term intent for continued investment in the Comox Valley.

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