Property rights will be the heart of the debate when the El Paso County Commission takes up a request Thursday from the Gleneagle Golf Club to rezone 10.5 acres, including its driving range, to allow it to build 47 patio homes.
Here is a look at the region from www.FlashEarth.com:
Residents surrounding the golf course, led by the owners of the 28 Eagle Villas townhomes that overlook the driving range, are opposing the rezoning and patio home project. Below is a closer view from www.FlashEarth.com:
Here are preliminary architect’s drawings of the project:
Activists created an action group called GREAT, for the Gleneagle Residents’ Environmental Advocacy Team, to fight the plan.
They raised $10,000 to hire an attorney, produce documents, mailings and set up a Web site to coordinate the battle.
Now it’s all up to the five-member County Commission to decide whether the needs of the course owner outweigh the needs of dozens of homeowners surrounding the course. Here is a view from the course.
Here’s a link to my Feb. 24, 2008 column on Gleneagle and its driving range and my blog, as well.
And here is a followup I wrote Aug. 21, 2008 about the conflict. I blogged about it in August, as well.
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I live on hole seven within site of the driving range and I am in favor of keeping the golf course. I understand the consequences of the development not being approved and the golf course being sold. The Gleneagle Golf course, as a part of this community, has reached out to the community and made extensive efforts to meet the demands of the GREAT organization. The Gleneagle Golf course’s actions and the amount of money they have already put into the course is evidence to me that they want to remain a part of this community. However, it is evidence to me that minority of people opposing the effort are not part of the community because no matter what the Golf course does they will never support the effort to keep the course an asset of this community.