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Opposition to 6 Story Apartment Building on Country Club Dr

Opposition to 6 Story Apartment Building on Country Club Dr

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Started by Suzanne Forward 4 years, 9 months ago

Attention: Golden Valley Neighbors.

The Country Club is selling the driving range land to a developer proposing a 6-story apartment building with 192 parking spots. Access will be via Country Club Drive. If approved this will cause lots of heavy equipment going up and down Country Club Drive and possibly adding up to 200 or more cars traveling this route. If you disapprove of the proposal to change the land use and zoning of the property from institutional to high density residential and the request for a Conditional Use Permit to construct a 6th floor, please sign the attached petition.

Please also attend the Informal Planning Commission Meeting at City Hall on December 13th at 7pm and let your thoughts be known.

Updates

December 2, 2021

I spent the entire morning staring at the traffic flow maps for Country Club Drive and honestly the developer's projections are just laughable if they think that road can handle a single extra car let alone hundreds. It feels like I am shouting into a void sometimes but I know people are still reading this so please keep watching the planning board site for any sneaky agenda changes because they love to slide things in when we are not looking.

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Jessica Scheff
4 years ago Featured

My husband and I and our 2 children live on Country Club Drive. We strongly oppose another apartment complex or condo complex in the area, especially if the entrance were to be on Country Club Drive. We are very concerned about the increase in traffic on our little neighborhood streets and disappointed at the thought of the proposed giant eye sore in place of the current green space. A charming 2-story townhome complex, similar to the nearby units on Golden Valley Rd, would be a much more suitable alternative for the neighborhood and location, especially if accessed via Douglas Dr with no entrance on Country Club Dr.

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Hannah Thacker
4 years ago Featured

As a member of the community with a young child and another arriving shortly, it is of great concern that traffic will be increasing on this road. The design to enter the road is already poor at best, and encourages a dangerous speed when exiting Highway 55. There are also multiple businesses along Country Club Drive that serve as medical rehabilitation homes. The residents there deserve a safe place to access the sidewalks and cross to utilize the Luce Line Trail safely, since the city has already neglected any cautionary signs or crosswalks. I doubt that by adding traffic on such narrow lane roads with heavy pedestrian traffic on both sides is the proper or responsible decision to be made.

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Chuck Fox
4 years ago Featured

I am surprised to hear that the Golden Valley CC is having financial difficulties. Especially when the parking lot is pretty full nd there is a lot of golfers on the course. I do not feel the design is something that would fit in the Schuller neighborhood. The level of traffic would increase and there would be more traffic outside of rush hour. I think the Country club should sell the land an make it part of the development of the Optum property. The access would be off Douglas. Which would bot affect the traffic.

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Suzanne Forward · petition starter
4 years ago Featured

I am concerned as more young families move into this area that children are at risk. Country Club is already a speedway being a long straight and very dark road. The police also use it to catch up to and cut off speeders on 55 at night. I lost a pet to a speeding car that did not stop, imagine that was a child. I also do not think a 6 story building is appropriate for the area, no other building close is that high and it will be a blight on our skyline much like that monstrosity of a storage unit across Douglas. Keep everything 2 stories high at most.

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Kenneth Surbaugh
4 years ago Featured

The proposed development does not reflect the character of the existing neighborhood. The driving range and adjacent golf course provides for the preservation of open space that gives the community an identity. A large residential complex would change the character of the neighbor with increased traffic and higher density housing is not a use that fits with the existing low density housing and small business. Please maintain the natural integrity of the neighborhood by rejecting this proposal.

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Suzanne Forward · petition starter
4 years ago Featured

A point I neglected to mention, I am also self employed and work from home and worry about the construction noise. My neighbor, a journalist works from home, their immediate neighbors are teachers who work from home. I would like to see potential noise studies done for our 100 year old homes in a neighborhood of people who currently work from home due to, and before Covid.

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Kimberly Surbaugh
4 years ago

Country club drive is not adequate to handle this amount of traffic.

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Ken walz
4 years ago

Forever change the solitude of this neighborhood

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