By Paul Maryniak | Ahwatukee Foothills News
The Club West Conservancy has told a judge it will be ready for a March 2024 trial in its suit against golf course owner The Edge and Shea Homes.
The Edge and the Conservancy last month also told Superior Court Judge Timothy Thomason they remain at an impasse in litigation over the course’s future.
Over four years have passed since the city shut off water to the 162-acre site and a little more than three years have passed since the four men who comprise The Edge bought it.
In a joint report to Thomason filed April 17, the Conservancy and the Edge said that about the only things they agree on is “they have conferred in good faith” and “that this case is not subject to the mandatory arbitration provisions” of a court rule aimed at pushing civil suits to settlement.
Representing about 50 of the Club West community’s approximate 2,500 homeowners, the Conservancy in December 2021 sued The Edge and Shea Homes to secure a court order forbidding home construction on the 18-hole course.
