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Golf range loses ground to garbage
By Times Staff Writer
Published February 2, 2006
TAMPA - The Northwest Transfer Station, a garbage transfer station near Linebaugh Avenue and Wilsky Boulevard, will expand into the southeast portion of its property by December 2009, the Board of County Commissioners decided Wednesday.
Ace Golf Range, which is located at the site of the planned expansion, will have to close.
Golf driving range owner, Bill Place, who has been leasing that property from the county since 1999, rallied enough community support over the past years to push commissioners to hold off approving the expansion.
Hoping to expand the landfill without destroying the golf range, commissioners lengthened Place's lease while the county studied other possible locations for the expansion.
Ultimately, the county concluded that the location of the golf range would be a safer and cheaper option for the expansion, and commissioners approved the original staff recommendation.
The expansion, said solid waste department manager Barry M. Boldissar, would enable the station to process northwestern Hillsborough's garbage for the next 20 years.
Place said he will vacate the property at the end of his lease which is in June 2008.
The expansion is estimated to cost nearly $20-million.
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