Okay, picture a golf course... mostly open space, right? Usually some trees lining the edges of the fairways just for clarity and visual appeal. If I were going to build a housing development, I would be thinking that taking over a golf course would be perfect with the already designed flow, previously mentioned well-placed full-grown trees, and the strategically placed patches of water with connecting brooks and streams.
But no.
Hwy 50 between Bolton and Hwy 7 had the Hunters Glen Golf Course. Not a great looking course, fairly typical looking. Well apparently it has been sold because the sign says its closed, and the machines have been on-site - cutting down ALL the trees and running them through a giant wood chipper. So I'm guessing by spring it will be cleared and flat, and filled with "houses" (if you can call them that) that are barely far enough apart to carry a lawn mower through on its side, each with its own newly planted 5' maple tree (that will likely die over the first winter)....
I'm assuming here, it could become a wonderful Super Center - mostly pavement with no trees at all, but whatever it is to become, I doubt it will be as "nice" as the golf course was....
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