Daily News | City to exempt new Cobbs Creek Golf Course project from anti-erosion regulation
Rendering of a proposed multi-tiered driving range as part of a $65 million renovation of the Philadelphia-owned Cobbs Creek Golf Course.Philadelphia City Council member Curtis Jones Jr. has introduced legislation to exempt a private foundation building the new Cobbs Creek Golf Course from a steep slope ordinance designed to limit erosion — a measure the group says is needed for wetlands restoration.
Cutting down hundreds of trees earlier this year to rebuild the historic course from scratch outraged some local residents.Clear-cutting woods for Philadelphia’s Cobbs Creek Golf Course project angers local group and birders “The Cobbs Creek Foundation is working to rebuild 3+ miles of creek bed and restore the Cobbs Creek Golf Course back to its historic 1916 design,” she wrote. “The exemption introduced in Council today will allow these necessary elements of the golf course restoration project” to move forward.
His organization is putting in $20 million in improvements to the creek area and creating 37 acres of wetlands to ease flooding. He said the state Department of Environmental Protection has approved those plans, and that the foundation is awaiting approval from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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