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Escondido Country Club Homeowners Consider Options For Proposed Development

The unwatered Escondido Country Club Golf Course sits next to green gardens, Aug. 7, 2014.
Alison St John
The unwatered Escondido Country Club Golf Course sits next to green gardens, Aug. 7, 2014.

A group of Escondido homeowners will meet Tuesday night to consider their options.

The city of Escondido settled a lawsuit with a developer who wants to build houses on the former Escondido Country Club golf course.

But Mike Slater, president of the Escondido Country Club Homeowners Organization, said it will not accept any settlement that involves the project's developer, Stuck in the Rough.

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"After two and a half years of bullying and intimidation and insults — like the five tons of chicken manure dumped on the property — people have no trust in him at all," Slater said.

The homeowners are not against the development altogether, Slater said.

"We would welcome another developer who has no ties to Stuck in the Rough," he said. "There are other developers around who would spend a year or two working with the community on a plan that the community would endorse.”

Part of the settlement reached with the city requires Stuck in the Rough to pick another homebuilder to complete the project.

Dick Daniels, a spokesman for Stuck in the Rough's Mike Schlesinger, said that choice should be announced within a week or two. However, he did not know if the developer chosen would present a plan or come to the community for input.

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Schlesinger will not sell the land until the development plan is approved, Daniels said.

The site of the golf course is zoned for more than 600 homes. Schlesinger had proposed building 430 homes, then reduced that to 270. Neither option was acceptable to homeowners, who defeated the developer's initiative on last November's ballot.

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