{"id":1977,"date":"2018-01-05T14:58:02","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T14:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1977"},"modified":"2018-01-05T14:58:02","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T14:58:02","slug":"residents-oppose-development-of-golf-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1977","title":{"rendered":"Residents oppose development of golf course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leesburg residents who live near Westpark Golf Course <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/leesburg-residents-push-back-against-plan-to-sell-westpark-golf-course\/2018\/01\/04\/1577f400-f158-11e7-b3bf-ab90a706e175_story.html?tid=ss_fb&amp;utm_term=.b2180dc1efd0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">are pushing back against a developer\u2019s plans<\/a> to acquire the property and build homes on it.<\/p>\n<p>Town officials announced late last year that the course is under contract to CalAtlantic, a land- development company that plans to build 27 homes there and donate most of the remaining property to the town. Since the sale\u2019s announcement, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/leesburg-considers-purchase-of-142-acre-golf-course-to-maintain-open-green-space\/2017\/11\/04\/42130908-bf14-11e7-97d9-bdab5a0ab381_story.html?utm_term=.e6670c314160\" shape=\"rect\">scores of residents have shown up<\/a> at town council meetings and other community gatherings to object to the plan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/leesburg-residents-push-back-against-plan-to-sell-westpark-golf-course\/2018\/01\/04\/1577f400-f158-11e7-b3bf-ab90a706e175_story.html?tid=ss_fb&amp;utm_term=.b2180dc1efd0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Washington Post<\/em>, Jan. 5, 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leesburg residents who live near Westpark Golf Course are pushing back against a developer\u2019s plans to acquire the property and build homes on it. Town officials announced late last year that the course is under contract to CalAtlantic, a land- development company that plans to build 27 homes there and donate most of the remaining &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1977\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Residents oppose development of golf course&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[48,16,14,3,13,51],"class_list":["post-1977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-development","tag-environment","tag-leesburg","tag-loudoun-county","tag-recreation","tag-town-council"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1978,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions\/1978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}