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he Club West Conservancy last week filed a Superior Court lawsuit against golf course owner The Edge and Shea Homes to prevent them from building houses on any part of the beleaguered site. Meanwhile, the Foothills Club West Association Board may vote tomorrow, Dec. 9, on whether to appeal a judge’s ruling that the
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former board’s members improperly acquired the land use rights for the site. That ruling came on a lawsuit the Conservancy filed in spring 2020. The Conservancy’s new suit asks a still-tobe-assigned judge to rule that Shea be precluded from changing the course’s Covenants, Conditions & Restrictions – which Conservancy attorney Francis Slavin contends “restricts the Golf Course Property to use as a golf course, driving range, recreational facilities related
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thereto, a golf pro shop and club house facility.” The suit also asks that The Edge “be permanently enjoined from taking any act in furtherance of developing the golf course property for residential or other non-golf course related purposes” and asserts it is legally bound to use the site only for golf. And it asserts that Shea Homes doesn’t even own the declarant rights to the golf course be-
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Mark and Jody Pectol unload bags upon bags of pet food at their Ahwatukee business, Zzeeks Pizza & Wings, after rising to the call of several pet food banks that said they were out of chow. To find out how you can help, see the story on page 18. (David Minton/AFN Staff Photographer)
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