Tyandaga Golf Course Update

Thank you to all who participated in an engagement session or submitted their ideas or feedback online.

This project started in late 2022 and initially to look for ways to keep more balls in play around hole 18. The City underwent a review of the Golf Course, looking at angles of play, proximity to holes and homes to review the course’s layout and compare with industry-standard risk. This review sparked some innovation on how the operation at Tyandaga Golf Course could evolve to better serve the community, residents and perhaps even contribute to an increase in the overall City’s passive-use green space. This review turned into a project with a goal of reducing risk and setting up the course well for the many next generations of golfers. Various considerations were reviewed over the course of these 10 months and many of these were discussed during the engagement sessions.

Options for the evolution of Tyandaga includes keeping an altered 18-holes or turning the course into a nine-hole or 12-hole course with recreational greenspace (driving range, trails, open space…etc.).

To date, six engagement sessions have been held on the future use of Tyandaga: one online session and five in-person sessions.

• 168 people participated in the engagement sessions
• 58 people submitted ideas online
• 490 completed the online survey
• Many others contacted City staff and members of Council directly

Here is a brief summary of what we heard:

• Residents do not want the lands developed (We agree. It will stay as public recreational land)
• Residents wanted to know what the current financials for Tyandaga were as well as what was presented to Council in the past
• Residents would like to know what keeping 18-holes would look like and what moving to either a nine or twelve-hole course would look like
• Residents wanted to look at other strategies for safety if we kept the course as an 18-hole course (i.e. netting options, tree planting options…etc.)

Staff are currently reviewing the information received from the engagement sessions and from direct contact. Information, including all the options mentioned above will be put into a report for Committee in Q1, 2024. Once the date and details are confirmed, they will be available on this site. Please note that this change in reporting timeline is due to the extensive feedback received from the community and the need to ensure we have listened, researched and provided the best information back to Committee and Council.

As always, residents can delegate at this committee meeting. If you would like to delegate, please visit burlington.ca/delegate.