JUNE 14, 2011
PRESS RELEASE --
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PACIFICA, CA.
The Pacifica Historical
Society, official historian of the City of Pacifica, on June 14, 2011 by
unanimous vote of its Board of Directors, a resolution determining Alister
MacKenzie's Sharp Park Golf Course to be an "historical and cultural
resource" of the City of Pacifica, and calling upon elected officials at
all levels of government, including San Francisco, San Mateo County, the
City of Pacifica, and the U.S. Department of the Interior, to preserve the
80-year-old golf course. Remarked Society President Kathleen
Manning, “Sharp Park is a treasure of international golf architecture, and
it is the purpose and duty of the Society to preserve and protect
it.”
A copy of the Society's
June 14 Resolution is attached above, together with the
Society's cover letter to the mayors of San Francisco and Pacifica,
calling on those cities to protect and preserve the golf course.
Since 2009, Sharp Park
Golf Course has been the subject of a political controversy in San
Francisco, pitting golfers and historic preservationists who want to save
the golf course, against a group environmental activists led by the
Tucson-based Center for Biological Diversity. The dispute is
currently the subject of a lawsuit, pending in Federal Court in San
Francisco: Wild Equity Institute, Center for Biological
Diversity, et al. vs. City and County of San Francisco, et
Al, U.S.Dist.Ct., N.D.Cal., No. C 11-00958 SI.
In calling for historic
preservation, the Pacifica Historical Society joins the Cultural Landscape
Foundation, which in 2009 recognized Sharp Park as one of America's most
imperiled significant cultural landscapes: http://tclf.org/landslides/sharp-park-golf-course-threatened-closure
For more information,
contact:
Bo Links
San Francisco Public
Golf Alliance
415-(415)
393-8099
Submitted by Richard Harris
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