Boulder City briefs for August 14, 2002

Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2002 | 9:23 a.m.

Approval given golf addition

Even as new grass pierces the graded fairways of Boulder City's second municipal golf course, city leaders are planning construction of another nine holes that would be lit at night.

On Tuesday the Boulder City Council gave preliminary approval to Triad Golf to develop a par-3 golf course within the 450-acre Boulder Creek Golf Club southeast of Adams Boulevard and Veterans Memorial Drive.

The council will revisit the proposal for a public hearing Aug. 27.

If approved, the $1 million, lighted par-3 course could open as soon as next spring. According to the tentative lease agreement, the course would bring the city $66,000 annually in rent for up to 50 years.

"We think it's going to be popular," said Boulder City Councilman Bryan Nix, chairman of the golf course steering committee. "You can get out in the evening when it's a little cooler."

Triad Golf plans to open its first 27 holes and clubhouse to the public in January. Those facilities are expected to cost Triad $18 million to build.

Tentative prices for a round of golf at Boulder Creek run from $45 for Boulder City residents to $95 for out-of-towners, well below prices at most public courses in the Las Vegas Valley.

Race's future is clouded

An off-road race held for more than 30 years in the El Dorado Valley will have to demonstrate effective dust control measures if organizers want to hold it again this November, the Boulder City Council said Tuesday.

The roughly 160-mile, four-wheel vehicle race over powerline trails attracts about 40 entrants each year, said Ken Freeman, president of Southern Nevada Off-road Enthusiasts, or SNORE. The first race was held in 1969, Freeman said.

But city councilmen said many residents complained about a larger off-road race held earlier this year on similar terrain about 10 miles southwest of the downtown.

"It was just a constant cloud of dust," Mayor Bob Ferraro said.

Don Dayton, an off-road representative on a Clark County conservationist group, said much of the dust was caused by high winds. Race or no race, he said, there would have been dust clouds.

Freeman and councilmembers plan to meet soon in the El Dorado Valley and test dust control measures with some off-road vehicles.