Linda Barr Letter to Eric Gage Regarding Terrazzo Project

Dear Eric Gage,

After attending the Terrazzo informational meeting last night I would like to express concerns about this project.

As an equity member of Fountaingrove Golf and Athletic Club I am extremely concerned about the potential for a negative financial impact to the Club that this project may have. Beginning with the recession of 2008 our Club has steadily lost members, and we continue to struggle to replace the lost memberships. More members are leaving than new members that are joining. There are large set costs each month to run a facility such as ours so the loss of each and every membership places a bigger share of the financial burden to keep the Club afloat on the remaining members. I feel that we will lose many members during the construction phase of this project. And we will forever lose the private, beautiful rural setting of our pool area. Showcasing this lovely setting has been instrumental in procuring new family memberships. If Mr. Futrell is allowed to build his proposed lower village it will destroy the current ambience of the Athletic Club. One of his units is only fifty-five feet from the property line. That is an infinitesimally small amount of separation.

Although the original owner of the 7.2 acre parcel was granted an easement to use Fountaingrove Golf and Athletic Club as ingress and egress to the 7 acre parcel by the then "interim board of directors", I believe that they granted the easement thinking that the owner was planning to build one home for his own occupancy. I don't think the easement would have been granted if they had known it might eventually be used to develop multiple residences. There are serious safety issues involved in allowing home owners, their guests, and their service people to use this very narrow, twisting road that bisects the various sections of the golf and athletic club. Anyone, particularly children, using the tennis courts or using the main club house and restaurant must cross the road in order to get to the athletic club and vice versa. A road to service private residences has no place and no business coming through a park or a private country club. This safety issue is paramount to the safety of members and the financial liability the club faces if someone is injured or killed. It was only a year ago when someone was struck and killed in the parking lot of the Airport Athletic Club.

I urge the planners to deny the construction and sale of the lower village of Terrazzo.

Respectfully,

Linda Barr

February 8, 2015