Save The National Golf Course

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New Letter

To residents from course owner

A new letter is available addressed to all residents from the course owner. Please check it out!
Click HERE for PDF
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Video Response

To the above letter

Please take a moment to watch a video which responds to the letter and the situation
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Petition

Updated Jan 7, 2008.

Please sign the petition online, and send the link to your neighbors and friends to help us grow in our fight to save the gold course, or at least keep it as open land. Click HERE to sign the online petition

Key points to be
aware of

Another historic Las Vegas neighborhood will be wiped out, after just losing our neighbors at Desert Inn Estates. Our golf course community has been home to stars like Ginger Rogers, Diana Ross, Shirley MacLaine, Sammy Davis Jr., Mac Davis, and many others.
We lose the already minuscule amount of natural, open area on the East side.
Our views will be destroyed by a sub-division, which was never the intended purpose of the land historically, or by design. Many of our homes have oversized rear windows, intended for the view, not for neighbors to view us.
Traffic congestion, water use, and garbage will increase significantly in an already crowded area.
The value of our homes will drop significantly overnight and stay that way (in an already depressed housing market) over the next few YEARS while the land use is in “limbo” and any new buyers will be very wary of what will be built in their new backyard!

Dear Neighbors:

In the following paragraphs are some ideas of legal, constitutional and positive actions we can all take to save the land as a golf course.

Our community must unite and take action to keep the golf course’s intended "designated usage" as a golf course which has been the historic precedent for almost 50 years! Although precipitated by the current situation, this is not about any potential sale or change of owners. That is not our business. However, it now offers us an opportunity to communicate with our elected County officials and obtain their support and commitment to keeping this land as a designated golf course and put said judgment on public record so we do not face this challenge again in the future. The current residents and future buyers of our homes will know they are protected.

Suggested Objective:

The land currently known as “The Las Vegas National Golf Course” should remain a golf course, now and in perpetuity, no matter whether owned privately or governmentally in the future.

Our homes and this community were designed and built around a golf course almost 50 years ago. According to the official web site for the Las Vegas National Golf Course (www.lasvegasnational.com), “The Las Vegas National Golf Club is a true Las Vegas landmark.” The web site also states, “Steeped in a rich history and tradition, the Las Vegas National Golf Club is one of the oldest golf courses in Las Vegas, this Bert Stamps designed course opened for play in October 1961 as the Stardust Country Club.” [check out their web site quickly, before they remove any of this current text.]

Just look at the way your house was designed: windows with a view in the back, not in the front of the house. Privacy from your neighbors, but vistas across the greens. Every house was originally built with a gate onto the golf course, for use by the community that had home ownership around the course; and, that must have had the goodwill of the original owner, the Stardust.

When each of us bought our homes, the value was based on “living on a golf course” and the historic precedent of the land for that purpose. The whole area was zoned R1, not the golf course specifically, and this land was designed and designated for use as a “golf course.”

Some personal reasons for keeping the land a golf course:

· Another historic Las Vegas neighborhood will be wiped out, after just losing our neighbors at Desert Inn Estates. Our golf course community has been home to stars like Ginger Rogers, Diana Ross, Shirley MacLaine, Sammy Davis Jr., Mac Davis, and many others.
· We lose the already miniscule amount of natural, open area on the East side.
· Our views will be destroyed by a sub-division, which was never the intended purpose of the land historically, or by design. Many of our homes have oversized rear windows, intended for the view, not for neighbors to view us.
· Traffic congestion, water use, and garbage will increase significantly in an already crowded area.
· The value of our homes will drop significantly overnight and stay that way (in an already depressed housing market) over the next few YEARS while the land use is in “limbo” and any new buyers will be very wary of what will be built in their new backyard!
· This list is just a start. You should write your own reasons for keeping the land as its was intended: (and email them to us if you want them added to the site)

ACTIONS

WE MUST ALL TAKE ACTION NOW !!

Isn't it worth a little of your time to protect your most valuable investment?

Click here for a list of actions you can take

Links for extra information:

Wikipedia - Paradise Palms

Shalimar AssociationA group going through a similar struggle in Tempe, Arizona

Grant money could help save golf course The Patriot Ledger

Save the UBC Golf Course

Save Normandie Golf Course

Preservation Durham, North Carolina

Sale of Discovery Harbour Golf Course