I can understand the government wanting to take back the land if there was no other site available in the area, but there’s a vacant lot 1 KM away! Why not allow the guy to renew the lease and continue to generate revenue from the land in addition to keeping the recreational facility for citizens to use.

There goes another practice facility and it seems there’s little that owner Art McKenna can do about it.

The government wants to dump a “mountain of dirt” on McKenna’s popular Calgary Family Golf Centre in the very near future and use it as a stockpile for the Stoney Trail-Nose Hill interchange whenever they get around to starting the project.

Too bad. McKenna knew this day would be coming but he says he wasn’t expecting it to basically scream out of the blue. His 10-year lease expired on the 40-acre facility last fall and he recently received notice to vacate the property by the end of June.

Never mind that there’s at least 20 vacant acres where goodness knows how much dirt could be piled on the site, it seems only the practice site will do. Never mind the fact that the city has another vacant area less than a kilometre west, it seems only the driving range will do.

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