Public can speak tonight on $1.5M for city golf club
BEVERLY — Should the city spend $1.5 million on the Beverly Golf and Tennis Club? Should the city change the rules for parking on the waterfront?
The public is invited to offer their opinions on those two subjects at tonight's City Council meeting at City Hall.
The public hearings are scheduled for 7:20 p.m. for the golf club and 7:45 p.m. for the waterfront parking.
Mayor Bill Scanlon is asking the council to approve spending $1.5 million on repairs to the city-owned Golf and Tennis Club. The money would be used to repair greens, tees, cart paths and sand traps, remove trees, replace sprinkler heads, build a new maintenance building, and improve handicapped accessibility at the clubhouse.
Scanlon said the money would come from the $600,000 annual fee paid to the city by Bass River Golf Management for the right to manage the club.
He said the city has waited a long time to make the improvements.
The city is also seeking a zoning change that officials say would pave the way for a Black Cow restaurant and other possible new retail businesses on the waterfront by requiring fewer parking spaces.
The new rule would require one parking space for every four seats in a restaurant, as opposed to the current law that calls for one seat for "every 50 square feet devoted to patron use."
