With the golf course owners now moving forward with plans to build homes on the golf course your support is needed more than ever. We will need as much as possible to be informed so we can act as one voice.
This BLOG is nearly 3 years old. It is a primary way of communicating with Morgan Creek owners. It not only provides information, but also allows you to comment. As you know, no ads. Nothing to buy. We will never sell our email list. We just provide information solely directed at Morgan Creek.
We have many new homeowners who are not aware of our existence and charter. Although we report on other items of community interest, our main focus is on the future of the golf course and what we can do to help guide it. While our elected HOA Board’s communications carry strong legal constraints, ours do not. We can call it like it is. We need both.
To maximize our reach, We are urgently asking your help in adding new subscribers to our list. Please contact your friends or new neighbors now and urge them to sign up. You can do this personally or by forwarding this post.
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Thanks, and stay tuned.
I am absolutely against closing the golf course and the building of any additional houses in Morgan Zcreek.
I am also against the move to transform the golf course into a new housing development. This has been under discussion for the last 5 years and the majority of homeowners were strongly determined against this project. But, home owners have been kept uniformed about the proceedings from the start Homeowners continue to be completely ignorant of current events regarding the Golf Course… So, now what is the “support you need from homeowners more than ever”?
LDB
We are keeping you informed. Until last week there has been no action by the owners other than the preliminary filing about a year ago which was reported here. An action plan is in process. More soon.
Ugh! We didn’t move here to NOT have a golf course!
Terribly against this. We don’t need a concrete community. There’s enough building in this area
I join my neighbors in opposition to the golf course closure and proposed housing development. Please let me know what action can be taken with the county to stop these events.
Let me know what i can do to help? The golf course is the heart and lifeblood of the entire Morgan Creek community!
We’re definitely in opposition to the closing of our golf course. The golf course is one of the main reasons that attracted us to buy in Morgan Creek.
I am totally opposed to the closing of the golf course and building homes on it. we bought our home so we did not have backyard neighbors. we don’t want them now with a new home built back there. we love our free open space with the bunny rabbits, and feral cats and turkeys and what ever birds and wildlife that have there homes back there.
It will be important to engage legal counsel to navigate this process. While social and PR pressure has its effects, the battle will be won and lost on the merits of the legal ability to do so. It will also be important that MC homeowners understand the environmental requirements and current condition of the course. Does anyone know what the current zoning is of the land? How many parcels?
Bonnie Gore is the best way to get our opposition to the re-development of Morgan Creek Golf Course. She can influence other supervisors to our fight with Morgan Creek LLC Charlie Gibson, and Syufy enterprises.
I contacted our Supervisor for our District 1.
Bonnie Gore at
email: SupervisorGore@Placer.CA.Gov
Address:
175 Fulweiler Avenue
Auburn, CA 95603
Phone: 916-787-8950
Fax: 530-889-4009
Our district director is: Landon Wolf
email: LandonWolf@placer.ca.gov
Email on 2/16/2021
“Supervisor Gore, I would like to put on record that I opposed to Morgan Creek LLC re-developing our golf course to put in 79 home sites. We moved here with every expectation of living in a golf course community. Two years after moving here, I heard rumblings that Charlie Gibson, GM and part owner was considering re-developing the course. He brewed up a lot of anger and anxiety in the community, and even parked a backhoe behind the Morgan Creek HOA presidents house for a few weeks.
Now he’s up to it again, supposedly being able to use a new California Law to fast track a re-development application. With closed meetings it’s impossible for us, as a community, to express our opposition. Any help how to communicate with Placer county would be appreciated.
Charlie Gibson when he started the re-development plans, quit running Morgan Creek Golf and Put his son in as General manager. He moved to the Phoenix area and his son subsequently followed. Using cash from the Whitney Oaks Golf course debacle, and monies selling the Davis Wild Horse golf course, he bought Golf Course in Arizona.
He has not be good for golf in the greater Roseville and Rocklin areas. He his for years that his major partner was Syufy enterprises a real estate and re-development company based out of Marin.
With from what I could add up about home building in the area (Placer Vineyards Project and more) the growth in Western Placer county seems more than 20,000 new homes. Preserving Morgan Creek Golf with it’s unique wetlands along dry creek should be high, as green open spaces will disappear over the next few years.
I personally live off the green belt and golf course and we enjoy the wildlife everyday. We have nesting red tailed hawks, deer can be seen early in the morning, and a great horned owl makes an appearance nearly every night. Other wildlife includes raccoons, coyotes, and assorted wildlife. We are sort of lucky to have such an assortment of wildlife so close to Roseville.
Let me re-iterate, we and many of the residents are opposed to the redevelopment of this under-utilized golf course and any help how to communicate with Placer county would be appreciated.
Thank You,
Lloyd and Kathy Neutz”
2/16/2021 Response from Bonnie Gores Office:
Just received a response from Supervisor Gore:
Thank you Ken for reaching out to express your thoughts on this project. Supervisor Gore is also very concerned about the potential development of the Morgan Creek golf course. Supervisor Gore has reached out to the project developer and requested that they hear out the residents’ concerns.
If you have any neighbors or friends who would like to opine about the issue, please have them reach out as well.
I hope you have a good rest of your week. Thanks again.
Regards,
Landon Wolf
District Director
Supervisor Bonnie Gore
Placer County District 1
With this being the owners blog, what role does the HOA play in this?
This BLOG is an independent tool reaching a large number of owners. Over 500 contributors at last count. The HOA Board is constrained by law (Davis Stirling, et. Al.) from taking certain controversial positions without formal community approval. The BLOG has no such limits. We are an open forum where we are free to share views (within bounds of decency, of course) and recommend group actions. You’ll be hearing much more of that as as we gather facts and develop neighborhood strategies. Working together we are a strong voice. Unlike other forums, we are focused solely on Morgan Creek.
Please encourage all your friends and neighbors to sign on. There is strength in numbers.
My Wife and I are aggressively opposed to the re-development plans to put additional housing in place of the golf course. Being from the Bay Area, were both extremely sensitive to the housing density there and one of the reasons we chose Morgan Creek was because of the space between the house units. The additional benefit of the golf course is it provides green space which further increases the open feel of the community and provides a first row seat to some of the wildlife Placer County has to offer. To replace this with additional roads, infrastructure and the traffic of additional housing units just to make more money for the golf course owners just speaks to human greed. I cannot abide by this behavior and will continue to vocally oppose this
Just some thoughts… if I am not mistaken the original plans for the development of Morgan Creek were intended to respect the wild life, green/tree areas and flood plane(s) of Morgan Creek. The plan included the restricted/ limited construction of 600 or so 1/2 to 1 acre homes and a 200 acres golf course. Those original plans/contract, as far as I know, have not changed. The Golf Course seems to have last sold for under 5 million dollars on or about 2005… That I imagine was not intended to be the price for a home development site where 1/2 an acre lot was then $250,000…! And, I believe now is nearly twice that price.
LDB
Thank you very much for the information and suggestion to write Supervisor Gore. I just sent the following note if it helps:
Supervisor Gore –
I am writing regarding my concerns about the proposed development of the Morgan Creek golf course. We have lived in Roseville for 16 years. We moved to Morgan Creek 5 years ago because we wanted more space and to be closer to nature. We love Roseville, and for that reason chose Morgan Creek over other rural communities in the foothills. My husband and I are very concerned about the potential development that would change everything about why we moved to this area. We live on the golf course and paid a premium to enjoy the beautiful space behind our home. I don’t claim to be an environmental expert, but I can imagine the development would be detrimental to the geese, rabbits, turkeys, hawks, and other wildlife that enjoy the open spaces and Dry Creek wetlands. The community is well-planned as it is today.
Building homes to replace the golf course would fundamentally change the community that hundreds of Placer County residents chose to make their home. With thousands of other homes planned for Placer County, this additional development is not necessary. Building on this open space would hurt every single owner and resident in Morgan Creek because of decreased property values, loss of golf course use, increased traffic, and environmental damage.