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Housing proposal<br />
doesn't hold water<br />
BY THOMAS GRILLO<br />
Elaine Figliola<br />
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Empty nesters hoping to live in an<br />
over-55 luxury community at the<br />
Sagamore Spring Golf Course<br />
will have to wait.<br />
The proposal for Fairways Edge at<br />
Sagamore, a 154-unit condominium<br />
project to be built around the 18-hole<br />
course that was rejected last spring by<br />
Town Meeting, won't be reconsidered<br />
anytime soon.<br />
Richard Luff, the golf course<br />
manager and one of its owners, said the<br />
development team has yet to figure out<br />
how they will get water to the site. Until<br />
then, the project is on hold.<br />
"We haven't figured a solution to the<br />
water problem at this point and until we<br />
do, we are being conservative and don't<br />
want to to submit our plan," he said.<br />
"We are exploring with Lynnfield and<br />
Peabody because these issues go beyond<br />
us."<br />
One thing is certain, Luff said:<br />
Downsizing the project is under<br />
consideration.<br />
"Personally, I think it's a little tight<br />
the way it is now, and we probably want<br />
to pull it back a little bit," he said.<br />
The 105-acre property is owned by<br />
the Sagamore Spring Real Estate and<br />
the Luff, Luff & Thompson trusts, whose<br />
trustees include Barbara Luff, Robert<br />
Morse and Erika Fagan, according to<br />
the Massachusetts Secretary of State's<br />
corporation office. The Sagamore Spring<br />
Golf Course has been owned by the Luff<br />
and Strobel/Thompson families since 1929.<br />
The planned residences off Main<br />
Street were described last spring as<br />
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