Keep the Buffalo Grove golf course away from Mr. Malk

We lived in Buffalo Grove when the village bought the Buffalo Grove Golf Course, to save it from development. We recognized, all that time ago, that the village needed to preserve open areas before development took over the village ... yet here we are fighting for the preservation of open land in the village again.

Why do we have to revisit this issue? What is this drive to pave the whole village? We need this open land at the very least to preserve the floodplain. Even if the golf course isn't making money, the deficit can't be that much and it's worth saving the damage to residential properties.

We spent thousands of dollars on studies five years ago with the same conclusion; building on the golf course would cause severe flooding. So now we're supposed to ignore these studies? Does Mr. Terson want to spend money again for a new study?

Along with destroying the floodplain, this development would put additional traffic in an area that is already a traffic problem and no, we don't believe widening Lake-Cook will help the traffic. All it's going to do is bring MORE traffic to Lake-Cook Road.

From Mr. Malk's previous proposal, the village will be expected to give the golf course to him or sell it to him cheap. Also, he will want TIF taxing breaks. There is nothing in this proposal for the village. In the end, we do all that for him and out of the goodness of his heart, he'll rent us space for a new public works area or police station.

So the village gets very little. There are no pluses in this proposal for the residents.

Call us old-fashioned but we moved out of the city to get away from all the concrete. We don't want to give up on the open spaces.

Diane and Al Drummond

Buffalo Grove