San Clemente Real Estate - Pacific Golf Club News
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Some Prime San Clemente Real Estate
Is Being Contested: Golf Course or Homes?
Should developer Michael Rosenfeld be allowed to avert a bankruptcy for the Pacific Golf Club? He might get that permission if the City of San Clemente approves his most recent San Clemente real estate use plan to put only 238 homes on 9 holes of the 27-hole Pacific Golf Club course way up Pico Blvd and just to the south of it.
The Pacific Golf Club lies on 248 acres of real estate at 200 Avenida La Pata.
The controversy: The real estate that Pacific Golf Club was built one was originally designated by the city as open space. But now, Rosenfeld wants to change some of that open space (9 acres) into homes, modernize the remaining 18 acres, remodel the club facilities and enhance the Pacific Golf Club profitability and use by making the new home owners social members of Pacific Golf Club.
Opponents say it is the city of San Clemente selling out the open space that it promised its residents; proponents say it is a recreational addition to the community.
Two attractive elements of Rosenfeld’s latest offer is 1. Earmarking 62 units for senior housing, betting that older people will drive less, thus not adding so much to the traffic on Pico, and 2. An $11 million grant to the city to help develop 45 acres of sports park on Vista Hermosa, plus a half a million dollars towards the new Dorothy Visser Senior Center. $150,000 to improve San Clemente’s classic Casa Romantica Cultural Center, $200,000 for a water reclamation system and $100,000 for a land trail head at Ave. La Pata.
The above is what was going on as of Thursday, May 21, 2007….watch for further reports here in the near future…..
For more information about Pacific Golf Club and what YOU can learn or do, visit the San Clemente Pacific Golf Club data site for interested citizens.
