Stonebridge is a
golf course community
A golf course community is a type of residential housing development built around a golf course.
History
Temple Terrace, Florida is often described as the first planned golf-course community in the United States, dating from the 1920s.Morgan, ...
in
Ottawa
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,
Ontario
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, Canada.
The community borders the Jock river to the north, Prince of Wales to the east, Barnsdale to the south, and Greenbank to the west. Main through-roads include Jockvale and Greenbank.
The Stonebridge Golf Club, an 18-hole course, snakes through the community, and borders Jockvale road.
The Stonebridge Community Association manages community events including summer and winter sports for kids.
Stonebridge has several parks, many including splash pads and fields. A new city-run community centre, the Minto Recreation Complex, includes a Gymnasium, a weight and exercise room, two pools, two skating rinks, a walking track, and several multi-use rooms. There is also a CFL-sized artificial playing football field to the south-east of the building.
Homes in the area were built by several builders, including
Minto
Minto may refer to:
Places Antarctica
*Mount Minto (Antarctica)
Australia
*Minto, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney
** Minto railway station
* Minto County, Western Australia
* Parish of Minto, New South Wales
Canada
* Minto City, British Col ...
,
Mattamy, Monarch, and Uniform.
In July 2019, residents of Stonebridge voted in favour of a levy, to be paid by residents, to purchase golf course land owned by Mattamy Homes. The levy will stall any further development of homes on golf course land for an additional ten years.
References
Neighbourhoods in Ottawa
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