By Paul Maryniak, Ahwatukee Foothills News
The acrimonious fight over the future of the defunct Ahwatukee Lakes Golf Course finally returns to court next Tuesday, Oct. 24, for a 21/2‑day civil trial that may decide its fate.
The non-jury trial before state Superior Court Judge John R. Hannah comes 15 months after he ruled that deed restrictions enacted two decades ago require the operation of a golf course on the 101-acre site.
But those covenants, conditions and restrictions are themselves now on trial after The True Life Companies, which owns the course, asked Hannah to rule that those land-use regulations have materially changed and that playing golf there is no longer an option.
