BY DAN HILDEBRAN
Keystone Heights Mayor Nina Rodenroth said the municipality’s proposed purchase of the area’s golf course is on the back burner, and the city council will not seriously consider the transaction until 2025.
The owner of the course. Brad Harvey told the Friends of Keystone Heights during the group’s June 20 meeting that because the nine-hole layout is currently zoned for single-family housing, the land may be more valuable as homesites rather than its current use.
He added that he was trying to convince city leaders to purchase the course to preserve its original use and historic value. Legendary course architect Donald Ross designed the layout.
After the July 22 meeting of the Keystone Heights City Council, Rodenroth said she had researched the proposal and that the council might workshop the proposed purchase in early 2025.
“No decisions,” the mayor said of the proposal. “We are really a ways off from that. I think there’s a lot of conversation yet. Number 1, Do we want it? We don’t even know where we would get the money or how we would get the money if we decided to go that route. So, there are a lot of unknowns at this point.”
Rodenroth added that the council now has its hands full with other projects, including rehabilitating the China Chef property at the city’s most visible corner.
