Golf Sites Face Delay Over Rock Removal

The construction of two golf courses at Toland Park near Santa Paula may be delayed because the developer needs another year to find a company capable of removing tons of rocks at the site.

Ventura County supervisors on Tuesday are expected to grant a one-year extension on an option agreement with Crumpler & Kruger Real Estate, the company seeking to build the courses.

The developer would pay the county $2,500 a month during the period, according to a county staff report.

Last May, supervisors unanimously approved an agreement allowing the Malibu-based company to build an 18-hole regulation course and a nine-hole par three course at Toland Park.

Crumpler & Kruger has pledged to invest about $10.3 million in the Toland Park project. The lease between the county and the company is expected to generate about $600,000 a year by the courses’ fifth year of operation.

“The principal hurdle to the development . . . is the issue of rock removal,” developer Theodore M. Kruger said in a letter to the county.

The company is having difficulty finding a firm capable of handling the massive job, Kruger wrote. It also needs more time to study how the project would affect the environment, he added.