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Club West course plan: 162 homes, but 18 holes BY PAUL MARYNIAK AFN Executive Editor
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lub West Golf Course would remain an 18-hole – but substantially smaller – playing field and pick up 162 single-family homes and a new clubhouse-community center under a plan unveiled last week by four investors and a team of other experts. Identifying themselves collectively as “The Edge Team,” the group outlined the plan before an overflowing crowd of more than 150 Club West residents as it began its long campaign to implement their vision within three years. Investors Bill McManus, Matt Shearer, Keith
Schott and Mike Hare – all Club West homeowners – are prepared to buy the course from Wilson Gee for $800,000 to $850,000 and invest between $8 million and $9 million in the plan. Closing on the sale is set for March, but likely is contingent on homeowners’ approval of the plan. Their team of heavy hitters includes homebuilder Taylor Morrison, golf course designer Brian Curtis, golf course architect Forrest Richardson and land use-zoning attorneys Edwin Bull and Brian Greathouse. They will follow their Jan. 15 introduction of the plan with an open house 6:15-8:15 p.m. Jan. 29 at Altadena Middle School. Then their work begins as they try to win
approval first by the Club West Community Association board next month on whether to put it up for a vote by homeowners at a meeting, possibly as early as March. If homeowners okay it, the Edge Group then faces the standard city bureaucratic hurdles any plan of this magnitude confronts. There will be zoning hearings before the Village Planning Committee, city Planning Commission and Phoenix City Council, followed by site plan reviews by the city if the zoning passes muster. “You have been held hostage by water,” Bull told the crowd, referring to the high cost of
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First Kyrene board Combatting a menace candidate tangles with of�icials BY PAUL MARYNIAK AFN Executive Editor
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he first declared candidate for this year’s Kyrene School District Governing Board elections has an ongoing Twitter fight with a neighboring district board member and was ejected from a Kyrene board meeting last fall after calling members “cowards.” But Ahwatukee resident and CPA Scott Weinberg last week showed no sign of moderating his public persona after he came close to being ejected again from a Kyrene meeting after tangling with board member Margaret Pratt. Weinburg’s dustup occurred on Jan. 14 – the day af-
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Pastors Cheree’ and Dave Wright of Life Link Church in Chandler flanked former sex-trafficking victim Olivia Holcomb during an information rally in downtown Chandler Jan. 12. For a look at the problem, see page 10. (Chris Mortenson/AFN Staff Photographer)
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