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Housing proposal doesn't hold water BY THOMAS GRILLO Elaine Figliola Direct Line: 781-910-6454 elainefig3@hotmail.com elainefigliola.cbintouch.com • Specializing in the Lynnfield Market • Extensive knowledge of the Lynnfield, Peabody, and North Shore markets • Hundreds of homeowners have entrusted Elaine with selling their homes, with rave reviews • Full service marketing plan • Highly skilled negotiator • Honesty and integrity you can count on • Proud to be a long-time Lynnfield resident • 25 years serving on the North Shore Professional Standards Committee Empty nesters hoping to live in an over-55 luxury community at the Sagamore Spring Golf Course will have to wait. The proposal for Fairways Edge at Sagamore, a 154-unit condominium project to be built around the 18-hole course that was rejected last spring by Town Meeting, won't be reconsidered anytime soon. Richard Luff, the golf course manager and one of its owners, said the development team has yet to figure out how they will get water to the site. Until then, the project is on hold. "We haven't figured a solution to the water problem at this point and until we do, we are being conservative and don't want to to submit our plan," he said. "We are exploring with Lynnfield and Peabody because these issues go beyond us." One thing is certain, Luff said: Downsizing the project is under consideration. "Personally, I think it's a little tight the way it is now, and we probably want to pull it back a little bit," he said. The 105-acre property is owned by the Sagamore Spring Real Estate and the Luff, Luff & Thompson trusts, whose trustees include Barbara Luff, Robert Morse and Erika Fagan, according to the Massachusetts Secretary of State's corporation office. The Sagamore Spring Golf Course has been owned by the Luff and Strobel/Thompson families since 1929. The planned residences off Main Street were described last spring as Contact Elaine for a Complimentary Home Valuation
attached two-bedroom townhomes ranging from 2,400 to 3,000 square feet, built in clusters of duplexes, triplexes, and quads, with prices from $700,000 to $900,000. While the proposal won a majority of Town Meeting votes, it failed to get the two-thirds majority needed to pass. Some of the opponents have said they worry about the impact of more school children squeezing into already crowded schools. But Luff has said the senior project will have no impact on the school population because no one under 18 would be permitted to live there. Opponents argue even if the new condos are limited to older people without schoolchildren, it could bring more kids as retired Lynnfield residents buy the new units and sell their fourand five-bedroom homes to young families. Whatever happens, the 89-year-old course will remain on the property. "That won't change," Luff said. Ted Regnante, the Wakefield attorney representing the project, estimated the new condominiums would bring nearly $1.8 million annually in tax revenue to Lynnfield. The project had widespread support in town, he said, including from the Board of Selectmen and other boards. If approved, the project would be built by Bonvie Homes. The Mashpeebased firm has constructed several high-end over-55 communities across the state, including the New England Country Club project in Bellingham. “One of the distinguishing features of our communities is our focus on creating a true lifestyle for our homeowners,” developer Richard Bonvie told The Daily Item last spring. In April 2019, Town Meeting voters need to approve three articles to help pave the way for the project. The rezoning includes changing the east side of the property from a residential to an elderly housing district, allowing a golf course as a permitted use in an elderly housing district, and increasing the maximum number of units allowed in an elderly housing district from 136 to 154, according to Regnante. Luff said they chose not to bring a proposal to Town Meeting on Oct. 15. "Until the water issue is resolved, we can't proceed," he said. 85 Andover Street Route 114, Danvers 978-774-4080 for him and her! One Liberty Square Boston 617-350-6070 giblees.com
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