MORGAN HILL
– Nearly a year after it first went up for City Council review,
the draft environmental impact report on The Institute Golf Course
is back for another round of public scrutiny.
MORGAN HILL – Nearly a year after it first went up for City Council review, the draft environmental impact report on The Institute Golf Course is back for another round of public scrutiny.
The biggest changes revolve around the environmental impacts of the course on plants, animals and water, according to Planning Manager Jim Rowe.
“There are a lot of mitigations (fixes to a particular impact),” Rowe said. “Some they haven’t proposed yet.”
After the public review, The Institute will have a chance to give the council its evaluation of the required mitigations early in 2004, though no date has been set.
The city and The Institute have been at odds ever since the planning department discovered in 1998 that The Institute had gone way beyond the scope of permits in renovating the golf course on Foothill Avenue, formerly the site of the Flying Lady Restaurant and Hill Country.
The course was built as the recreational arm of the American Institute of Mathematics by Corralitos Creek, LLC, the property owners, including local resident John Fry of Fry’s Electronics.
AIM, now based in Palo Alto, plans to move to the site.
Substantial revisions were made to five sections of the revised draft EIR, including the project description.
The document also questions the seismic safety of the existing Flying Lady building and wants structural stability before it could be used.
The building, according to Institute officials, will be fully renovated – or even replaced – before use.
The revised EIR will be posted at www.morgan-hill.ca.gov
