The plans to buy and close the golf club are meeting some resistance from taxpayers, with six parties filing an appeal of the sale’s legality with the state’s Environmental Review Appeals Commission. The Ohio Watchdog reports that a bloated appraisal price gives the developer an advantage while the town gets a portion of the acreage.
The northern Ohio town’s city council will pay for the property with a $4.5 million state EPA grant intended to prevent the construction of multi-family housing.
he city of Aurora, Ohio wants to buy The Aurora Golf Club, but questions over how much of the acquired property could be mowed must be resolved.
The Aurora Golf and Country Club, a once-celebrated, 84-year-old formerly private club in Aurora, Ohio, where PGA stars such as Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Gardner Dickinson competed in the old Cleveland Open, has changed its ways and is now operating as a semi-private and public course. Looking to attract new business under its new open-to-the-public operating system, the club [...]
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