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Note: This golf course is planned for the area directly across the street from the homes advertised on this website. NA course wins friends18-hole project eyed for ex-landfillBy Gloria LabountySun Chronicle Staff Reprinted from The Sun Chronicle, Attleboro-North Attleboro, Mass., Saturday, May 14, 2005 NORTH ATTLEBORO - The proposal to turn the closed town landfill on Mount Hope Street into an 18-hole golf course is getting closer to reality. Local resident and golfer John DelBonis of North Attleboro Golf Group and golf course designer Robert McNeil of New Jersey came to present the concept, just as they have been doing with various town boards. Several members of the planning board said the course was a good concept, and would be a good use of the town-owned site. They raised some concerns about drainage, but Selectwoman Marjorie Kraskouskas said that would be addressed as the plan is reviewed by town boards and by the state Department of Environmental Protection, which oversees landfills. The landfill site would continue to be owned by the town and would be leased to the golf group, which would operate the course. A lease agreement is currently being negotiated with selectmen and being reviewed by town attorney Robert Bliss. It will then have to be approved at representative town meeting. Par 3 course According to McNeil, the plan is for a par 3 course, which is a rarity for a course with 18 holes. Each hole would be inspired by a favorite hole on a championship golf course, he said. That will make the course unique, he said, yet it will be "the kind of course that can be played by anybody". The course would have access off the side of the site on Landry Avenue opposite the traffic light for the high school-middle school complex. Material to create the features for the 18 holes will be brought onto the site, McNeil said. Trees cannot be planted, he said, but the developer can work within the top 12 inches of the capped landfill. Kraskouskas said all the costs to develop the course will be covered by North Attleboro Golf Group. She suggested that planning board members visit golf courses created on landfills in Cambridge and Quincy to get a sense of the proposed project. According to McNeil and DelBonis, about 50 such courses exist across the country. |