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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