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Residents of Barrhaven’s Stonebridge neighbourhood have voted by a two-thirds margin in favour of investing in the preservation of their local golf course.

Residents voted 1,470 to 741 in favour of an annual tax levy to raise $7 million for the potential purchase of Stonebridge Golf Cub from its current owner, Mattamy Homes.

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The levy would be in place for nine years at a rate based on the assessed value of each home. A resident with a home valued at $595,000 would pay an annual levy of $283.

Jay McLean, president of the Stonebridge Community Association and a member of the working group that helped engineer the levy proposal, said he was pleased with the results of the vote.

“It’s a strong majority of the community voting in favour of the levy and that gives us a strong mandate to move forward,” McLean said Saturday. “It has been a difficult process, a very challenging issue for the community, and there has been passionate debate going on, especially in the last couple of months.