Cedar Rapids City Council this past week approved a plan to construct the building, as well as reconfigure the parking areas and the club’s driving range. There will be 67 parking spaces at the site. The proposal was temporarily tabled after residents gave it a mixed reception, but council decided the changes to the plan adequately addressed concerns.
An indoor tennis facility will be constructed on the property owned by the Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Country Club following approval of the plan during the latest City Council meeting, the Corridor Business Journal reported.
The council voted unanimously to back the plan, with four council members recusing themselves due to potential conflicts of interest and legal concerns.
It paves the way for the construction of an indoor tennis facility and reconfiguration of parking areas and the club’s driving range onto 185 acres already owned by the club, and a separate proposal to vacate a portion of Fairway Terrace SE, the Corridor Business Journal reported. Seven homes along Fairway Terrace would either be relocated or demolished to make room for the project.
The request was temporarily tabled after a mixed reception when it was first brought to the council’s attention, but council ultimately decided the updated proposal adequately addressed concerns surrounding the tennis facility’s design. 67 parking spaces will be part of the country’s club layout as opposed to 78.
Still, critics of the project voiced their objections to the club’s proposal June 14.
“I’ve been really disappointed, as have my neighbors, in that the club has yet to submit any accurate architectural renderings of what the project will entail,” said TL Thousand, a neighborhood resident, as she presented a homemade, 3D scaled model of the country club’s proposal. “We’ve collected 117 signatures in opposition to this project. What we’re looking at is the destruction of a neighborhood. There’s nothing about this project that adds to our neighborhood. You’re talking about small, single-family homes in a historic neighborhood that has been on the books since 1884.”
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