By Paul Maryniak | Ahwatukee Foothills News
The Club West Conservancy last week showed it is not giving up on its lawsuit against golf course owner The Edge and Shea Homes that seeks a judicial determination that houses can never be built on the withered 162-acre site.
The homeowners group last week filed its second amended complaint in the suit, initially filed in December 2021, with a modification suggested by Superior Court Judge Timothy Thomason during a July 25 hearing.
That amended complaint includes a list of 50 Club West homeowners whom Attorneys Francis and Daniel Slavin allege were promised in sales agreements that their community would always have the 18-hole championship golf course.
The suit contends that the course guarantee is part of sale agreements that both Shea and previous homebuilder UDC Homes signed with buyers.
The Slavins also submitted numerous ads and newspaper stories from the 1990s that made the course a key component of the homebuilders’ sales pitches.
