Landscape Architect, Robin Shifflet, is the city planner overseeing the process of reinventing the Mission Bay Golf Course and De Anza Cove. The course might soon be “on the cutting edge of environmental innovation.”
Mission Bay Golf Course, known for being the county’s only lighted course and the place where Tiger Woods won a Junior World title, might soon be on the cutting edge of environmental innovation.
Ongoing city efforts to restore lost marshland in Mission Bay could include dramatically reconfiguring the course to include marshes disguised as water features and natural habitat areas that serve as “rough.”
The transformation could also include adding retention ponds and bioswales, which would filter pollutants and sediment from La Jolla’s Rose Creek as it feeds into the Kendall-Frost marsh and land nearby that’s slated become restored marsh.
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