Woodmont home owners wins!

Wow! That’s all I can say, is Wow! I am doing my happy dance! Man these last few weeks have been nothing but meetings and writing.

Have been so upset with the thought of the possiblity of losing the beautiful backyard view of the Woodmont Golf course. I am sure you are aware that there was an application to change the land use from recreational to residential/commercial use.

Lennar homes has been trying real hard to purchase this particular land. They were not expecting the home owners to come out in full force. Petitions, standing outside of City Hall with special shirts that said No Land Use Change. Guess the City Commissoners and the builders knew they lost this round, as the notice says.

I still need to continue this fight, why? There is a possiblity that they will try to come and purchase it again. We fought the sell in 2007, now in 2010 and maybe in 2013. Who knows, but we will fight again then.

So Woodmont home owners, pat yourself on the back for now and take a rest, we won!

Jeannette Neerpat

Looking to save Woodmont

So as you have read over the last few days the people who live in Woodmont are fighting the owners of the Woodmont Country Club in regards to the Land Use. They want to change the land use from Recreational to Commerical Residential. Giving any builder the right to buy the land and build.

Not every home in Woodmont is affected by this directly but indirectley. The ones who are directly affected are the ones who live on the green. Their back yard is the golf course. They pay hire property taxes and when the homes where built paid higher for the lot.

Now Lennar Homes wants to come and build on this land, and we are not very happy about it. So we are fighting. We had to hire and attorney in order to help us with this since the owners of the Country club hired one and Lennar Homes hired one. We had no other choice, but of course that comes with a price.

The people of  Woodmont have done a site to raise awarness and we need to raise a minuim of $10,000 just to get us started for next weds commission meeting. Let’s hope we can raise the money to due so.

Jeannette Neerpat

What’s with the funny numbers?

The community I live in had a meeting last night again with regards to the Lennar Homes and the Land Use change.

One of the questions that came up is the numbers that are suppose to projected. Our school is over crowded and then the person on the planning board pulled out some papers that Lennar had sent to them and it stated that our school is not at full capacity. I told the lady who are they kidding. My daughter goes to the school and its at almost 1200 students. There is a new school that was built about a mile away that is not zoned for the new school. So tell me how they think its not overcrowded? We had to hire 5 new teachers this past year because we had so many more students.

Then what about the increase in traffic? They only talked about the main streets Soughtgate, Pine Island and University. What about all the small roads that go into al the communities. How many cars are going to be coming in and out. How can they not think about that?

Of course what are the Politicians thinking about? How much money they can make, they are seeing the building fees, which will bring in about 1.3 million dollars. Then they are counting on the property taxes that is projected to bring in $390,000 annually. But what is to say they sell all the 255 homes they plan on building?

Call me crazy but I think this is nuts and not going to have it. The commission meeting is next week and I plan on attending. Will you be there?

Jeannette Neerpat

Another meeting about Lennar Homes

Today we are having another meeting about Lennar Homes. This time its with a lawyer. He wants us to bring our Warranty Deed with us. If you read my previous post I realized that it wasn’t in my paperwork from when I closed.

I was able to track it down and get official Warranty Deed. I will be bringing it with me tonight, so stay tuned!

Jeannette Neerpat