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More than three-quarters of the
island is dedicated to parkland or
recreational facilities.

“What we’re doing has not been
done in North America before,”
Holland said. “To do this on an
island with this beauty is unique
and because of the limited amount
of homes available it makes it very
unique.”

The golf course, designed by
world-renowned designer Bill
Robinson, will be world-class
championship calibre.

Rick Gawne of Zodiac Consult-
ants just finished shaping the
course. ““He’s an artist with a
bulldozer,” Holland said.

He’s been told the seventh hole
will make the course famous. The
majority of the holes feature water
traps and some require golfers to
drive directly over freshwater
lakes, which also act as holding
ponds for irrigation.

Green fees for non-residents will
be expensive, but theyll “‘be
treated like kings.”

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Several acres will be set aside as
a game farm for fallow deer
who’ve called the island home
since 1906. But deer will also run
wild.

“We feel if we plant carefully
around the houses there will be
little conflict,” Holland said.

In response to concerns about

where residents would park on the
Peninsula, Holland is near finaliz-
ing a lease agreement for seven-
and-a-half acres of Tsawout band
land.
This summer Holland plans to
build a half-mile road to extend
Puckle Road north into the band
lands, to turn east down a corridor
to the waterfront where residents
can park and board a hovercraft.
Puckle Road is accessible off
Island View Road and currently
dead-ends.

“We feel it’s a really good
scheme,” Holland said. “It’s one
of those deals where everyone
wins.”

The Tsawout band wanted
access to its land other than Mt.
Newton Crossroad, he said. Over
20 young people from the Tsawout

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band will likely find work on the
island and will be able to walk to
the hovercraft terminal workday
momiings, he said.

He plans to have a $660,000
British-made hovercraft capable of
seating 22 passengers in operation
by fall.

The fourth generation hovercraft
travels 18-inches above the water,
is capable of speeds of 40 knots
and uses seven gallons of diesel
fuel per hour in a single 190
horsepower engine.

“Our objective is to provide
whatever is needed to give these
people a lifestyle,” Holland said.

A supply barge will use existing
dock facilities on the Peninsula
and will be used to move grocer-
ies, furniture and service trucks to
a dock on the island’s northeast
side, he said.

A lot at the end of James Island
Road in Central Saanich, owned
by Pacific Parkland, will be sold
for future residential development,
Holland said.

“It'll end up as townhouses or
whatever,” Holland said. ‘‘We

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sits today behind a more modem station — with more
pumps — along the Pat Bay Highway, Inset, another
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