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Mount Vernon Country Club proposes new maintenance facility and driving-range netting; ARB focuses on floodplain and screening
Summary
The Mount Vernon Country Club presented a special-exception amendment proposing golf-course improvements, a relocated maintenance facility partially within an HOD, and new driving-range containment netting; the ARB asked for floodplain and resource-protection analysis and stronger vegetative screening.
Mount Vernon Country Club presented a special-exception amendment at the April 9 ARB workshop to support several site improvements, including new driving-range containment netting, pool improvements, and relocation of the maintenance facility from the middle of the course to a site nearer Old Mill Road.
Club representatives said the existing maintenance shop (built in the 1990s) is constrained by proximity to resource-protection areas (RPA) and the 100-year floodplain, limiting safe expansion. The proposed maintenance structure is a single-story, metal-panel building with 18-foot bay heights to accommodate maintenance equipment; the club said the building footprint will be set back from Old Mill Road, and the design will rely on substantial vegetated buffers, new trees and a wood fence to screen views from adjacent homes and the nearby Woodlawn plantation.
The project also proposes V-shaped containment netting for the driving range (wood poles up to about 50 feet, netting roughly 43 feet high) positioned well back from the road amid existing vegetation. Applicants said most of the work will be phased and that improvements are concentrated on previously disturbed areas, but ARB members reiterated the need for detailed floodplain and environmental studies because the package includes grading and fill in regulated areas.
Next steps: the club's special-exception amendment is scheduled for Planning Commission public hearing; the ARB will provide comments on historic-overlay implications, visibility and landscape screening and expects more detailed civil and grading plans when the maintenance facility returns for review.
