6 THE CHARBONNEAU VILLAGER
April 2019
Change is
in the air
■ While deciding what to do with the
Annex building, Charbonneau welcomes
pickleball, upgrades at garden terrace
PMG PHOTO: JONATHAN HOUSE
The upstairs view at the old restaurant building overlooking the Charbonneau Golf Club.
By PATRICK MALEE, PAMPLIN MEDIA GROUP
S
pring is perhaps best known as a
time of renewal, and Charbonneau
officials are taking that to heart
this year with several initiatives
that they hope will spark sig-
nificant improvements all around the
country club.
"Charbonneau is not stagnant,"
Charbonneau Country Club board
member Larry Walker says. "We're
looking to the future; we're constantly
striving to improve the living
environment."
"(We want) to make sure this a
community that is viable and attractive
to people in the future, residents in the
future," CCC General Manager Jim
Meierotto adds.
Those efforts began in March with
an effort that is the very definition of
"renewal."
The back
entry of the
old
restaurant
building.
PMG PHOTO:
JONATHAN
HOUSE
'We can't just continue what we're
doing now'
After voting in September 2018 to
demolish the vacant old restaurant
building on CCC grounds — which was
purchased in May 2018 and is now
referred to as the Annex — the board
announced in March that it would hold
up the process to allow for more
outreach to residents. Consultant
Heather Coston was brought on to help
gather that feedback, and a new
Community Engagement Task Force
held its first meeting March 14.
"Our primary goal is to ensure that
every single resident in Charbonneau
has hopefully two or three very specific
opportunities to provide their opinions,
input (and) answers to questions about
the disposition of the building," Walker
says. "We don't want to move forward
unless we can honestly say to
everyone, 'We asked you what you
think.' And we hope we'll get broad
input, but if we don't, at least we've
asked."
Walker says the decision to press
pause on the demolition process wasn't
due to public pressure, but rather
second thoughts from the board itself.
"Board members said ... 'Are we
sure we should move forward with our
decision without engaging the opinions
of the community?'" Walker says.
CCC hired an architect and building
consultant to evaluate the current state
of the building, which most recently
housed the On The Green restaurant.
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