Sunday, September 5, 2010
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Friday, July 30, 2010
The pool served the children of the county before annexation brought them into the city in the early 70s. The parents and children of northwest city would gather at the pool on hot days in their usual neighborly communal fashion through the 80s and 90s. All that changed when the pool closed in 2003 and [...]
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Many of the area neighbors including myself have attended all the meetings with Planning Department Staff over the last several weeks. Tuesday night at 6:30 p.m. at William Fleming is the last community input meeting. What to do with Countryside Golf Course is the topic. Monday evening’s meeting at the Miller Court neighborhood (Dan Hale [...]
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Outgoing council member Gwen Mason heard three options for protecting Mill Mountain from development: no easement, a 537 acre easement and 535 acre easement. Former State Senator Granger MacFarlane would rather see no easement and instead a Mill Mountain Authority set up similar to the Roanoke Airport Authority where he served for 12 years. Steven [...]
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010
UPDATE May 18 – 5:30 pm: In an e-mail from assistant manager, Brian Townsend: “The [Scott and Ascension]Horchlers propose to continue to use a portion of the building as a ‘reception hall’ in a manner that the building had previously been utilized, and would renovate the remainder of the house as their residence. The property [...]
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
With the two-cent meals tax pinching the already teetering downtown restaurants Councilman Court Rosen thought vendor carts should be delayed a couple years until the meals tax expires. However, Rosen said that he likes the idea as it promotes a free market. Council member Gwen Mason agreed. On Monday council was briefed by planning administrator [...]
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Tuesday, May 4, 2010
An Internet survey of 254 respondents, public input by 75 citizens followed by a public hearing on June 21 and council agreement will set the boundary for the Mill Mountain conservation easement. Assistant Manager Brian Townsend at Monday morning’s council briefing presented an update. Though a public hearing is still pending the easement has boiled [...]
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Saturday, April 24, 2010
Just not giving up on free golf at Countryside. This man has a tough time finding his ball as the grass grows on the 12th fairway. If we just had a big enough mower the neighborhood would mow at least some of the fairways. Chris Whitley of WSLS channel 10 picked up on my post [...]
Sunday, April 11, 2010
My friend Newt and his brothers played one last round on Countryside Golf Course. Newt’s brothers even remember when it was a farm. They lived adjacent to the course growing up and my friend Newt was the head “golf ball hunter.” He knows every nook and cranny here. Whether you live here now or lived [...]
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Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Roanoke city is mowing 50 feet out from the out-of-bounds markers on the 140 acres of what once was a treasured golf course. Just how much the city has spent on boarding up the clubhouse, making “no trespassing” signs, placing concrete barriers, taking down the range netting and repairing the sinkhole is anybody’s guess. It [...]
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Saturday, March 13, 2010
On March 1 in a Tuesday closed session Roanoke City Council made the decision to close the city-owned Countryside Golf Course. The course was purchased in 2005 for $4.1 million in anticipation of developing the property with upscale housing and other mixed-use development. Plans fell through with Toll Brothers and went from bad to worse [...]
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Nov. 16 Update: The ordinance passed unanimously to allocate the $1.9 million on Option 2 renovation for Washington Park Pool. Nov. 14: The grandiose “regional” aquatic pool makeover for Washington Park has been scaled back to the lesser of three options. Steve Boucher, Director of Parks and Recreation made a third pitch at a council briefing [...]
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
SEE UPDATED: According to an email from Councilman Rupert Cutler a “substantial new memorial” honoring veterans is still planned for riverside park. The demise of Victory Stadium still stings. It was build shortly after the end of WWII and named “Victory” in honor of the veterans who served and sacrificed their lives. These veterans and their [...]
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Monday, November 9, 2009
On October 30 just one day before Meadowbrook’s management contract of city-owned Countryside Golf Course expired city administration inked a six-month contract extension. The rushed contract consisted of only a few pages. The Vice-President of Operations for Meadowbrook, Inc. Scott Beasley will be in town this week to negotiate a long-term five-year contract. The six-month [...]
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
With Councilwoman Gwen Mason running for the 17th District House of Delegates seat and Councilman Court Rosen the “conservative’s conservative” it becomes apparent that moving forward or even “maintaining” Roanoke is not on their agenda. Monday’s vote on $1.5 million of maintenance on city-owned Counryside golf course got their “no” vote. They’d rather see it [...]
