Imagine lying out in the sun on a sandy beach in False Creek while just offshore surfers ride waves bigger than anything this side of Tofino.

A Vancouver-based company called Reviver Sport+Entertainment has produced some flashy concept art to showcase the idea.

Called CitySurf, the recreational development is proposed for the space immediately north of the Telus World of Science. It would consist of “a pay-for-use surf park, a publicly accessible beach, along with restaurant and entertainment facilities topped with a green roof”.

A website created for the proposal explains how the surf park would work.

“The wavepool is enclosed by a floating perimeter structure, which filters water directly from False Creek through a porous membrane and then geo-thermally warms it before recirculating the filtered water in a continuous cycle,” it reads. “The membrane system would actively generate an improvement in False Creek water quality, highlighting the City of Vancouver mandate to show leadership in environmental stewardship and responsibility.”

Philip Davis, an architect, and Colin Weston, an event planner, are listed as the masterminds behind the idea.

“Vancouver is an ocean city with an active outdoor water-oriented lifestyle, but due to geography it lacks open ocean surf,” Davis says quoted on the website. “CitySurf changes all that. We’re proposing to create a world-class city amenity, in an underutilized waterway, while tackling a recognized environmental issue in a city that promotes itself as one of the greenest on the planet”.

He argues the time is right for such a venture.

“The technology has advanced to the point now where man-made waves are becoming, literally, the wave of the future,” he says. “We are able to control the wave height and regularity to create an enjoyable surfing experience from novices and kid’s camps all the way up to elite level surfers.”

It’s a little unclear how serious a proposal this is. The design firm doesn’t appear to have previously done anything like what it’s proposing for False Creek. It also might be noteworthy that the company’s mailing address is a residential condo in the West End. And Colin and Davis have pitched something similarly out-of-the-box before.

In 2014, the Vancouver Sun ran a story about a new spin on golf that the pair was working to get off the ground. That article describes the normally low-key sport played inside a stadium and modified to include zip-line rides and loud music.

But the concept art for CitySurf is sure to get the public’s attention. According to the website, the company has “reached out” to the Vancouver park board with the idea. The project also claims to have early endorsements from WaveParks Canada, the Canadian Surfing Association, and Surfing Canada.

Would you pay to surf waves at a new man-made beach in False Creek?