voted in 2024 to ask staff to redesign the park<\/a> so it works better for all users.<\/p>\n\u201cThis project represents years of planning, technical expertise and most importantly listening to our community,\u201d Buchanan said. \u201cGood parks don\u2019t ask people to choose between recreation and nature. The best parks successfully support both.\u201d<\/p>\n
The new professionally designed course is kept to the inner portion of the park. For those coming exclusively for a walk or roll through the trees, the city will be stitching together a series of trails around the perimeter to create a contiguous gravel path.<\/p>\n
\u201cIdeally, less conflicts, less having to yell \u2018fore!\u2019\u201d said Allison Tweedie, parks planner.<\/p>\n
The only other options for disc golf on the North Shore are a short course near Rockridge Secondary School and an 18-hole course at the top of Grouse Mountain only available to pass holders. The District of West Vancouver has also announced plans for a disc golf trial\u00a0on the Ambleside Par 3 golf course in winter.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Eastview Park project has a budget of about $300,000. The work is expected to take three months.<\/p>\n
Tweedie acknowledged that the vision is a compromise and that some neighbours won\u2019t be pleased with the final result.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s definitely residents that aren\u2019t happy with disc golf being in the park at all,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019re hoping that even if disc golf wasn\u2019t something that they necessarily wanted, we\u2019re going to be improving the situation and improving the sense of safety and comfort.\u201d<\/p>\n
Other residents have shown excitement for the changes, Tweedie added. Among them is Richard Howard, an executive with the North Shore Disc Golf Association.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe think it works well. Our hats are off to the staff as well that did their due diligence in finding out how to make a decent park work for everybody, and our hats are off to the council and mayor for supporting it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Howard said he\u2019d never even tried the game until he heard about the controversy in 2023. He came to check out the park for himself and a stranger invited him to play a round. He\u2019s played almost every day since, gaining a lot of good friendships along the way.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was sold at that point,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
In 2025, the city cleared some dead and dying trees left damaged by the looper moth infestation and drought, but no further trees will have to be removed for the coming park improvements.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s the big thing,\u201d Tweedie said. \u201cBecause it\u2019s a really special forest ecology here, our goal is to have as light a footprint as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Part of the budget will go toward new split rail fences to help keep disc golfers out of the rough, so to speak.<\/p>\n
The association is well aware of the sport\u2019s history and the neighbours\u2019 concerns, Howard said, adding that part of their job is to ensure\u00a0the sport\u00a0is played \u201cfairly, quietly and enjoyably with others.\u201d<\/p>\n
The course, which was designed with the help of a disc golf consultant, is good, Howard said, particularly as the game can still be played in a forested area.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt allows people to get in the trees in nature and I think that\u2019s a big plus for people,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re just looking forward to seeing it get finished and get out here and play.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City of North Vancouver\u2019s Eastview Park is set to become home to a new purpose-built nine-hole disc…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-776847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}