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Tuesday night, Fort Worth burghal board associates will vote whether a whiskey distillery can about-face celebrated Glen Gardens golf advance into its new location. (Published Monday, July 14, 2014)

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Several important and difficult decisions lay advanced for the Fort Worth Burghal Board on Tuesday.

One that will absolutely allure a ample cardinal of speakers pits a adjacency adjoin a whiskey distiller. It's a zoning case that the zoning agency anesthetized on to the board with a 4-4 tie advising denial. Despite that recommendation, association about Glen Garden Golf Club aren't demography any chances. They plan to allege up and in ample numbers at Tuesday night's board meeting.

The association appetite the golf advance to break the way it is, but they absolutely don't appetite what is actuality proposed: a whiskey distillery and aggregation center.

"Noise, barter cartage advancing in and out of the community," said Howard Rattliff.

Rattliff lives beyond the artery from the 102-year-old country club. He and abounding of his neighbors are all for redevelopment in the breadth but say this activity aloof isn't a acceptable fit.

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"The golf advance fits the neighborhood, and the adjacency fits the golf course," Rattliff said.

The golf club's owners are attractive to sell, and Firestone and Robertson Distilling has affairs to about-face the advance into its new facility. The distiller is currently based on West Vickery Artery on the Abreast Southside. Site affairs appearance the admission to the distillery will be from Mitchell Boulevard and not through the adjacency like the accepted golf advance requires.

Plans alarm for a distillery, bottling bulb and aggregation centermost to be based about one of the course's lakes. Most of the 100 acreage of the advance will abide blooming space, according to the city, but association are anxious it could abound and that there could be noise, odor and cast problems.

Firestone and Robertson Distilling told NBC 5 it had no animadversion apropos the zoning change. But the aggregation does accept some support, as abounding belletrist accept been beatific to the board in support. The club's accepted owners say the aggregation "is a acceptable suitor for our acreage because of its advised use of the acreage and admiration to advertise the Club's history."

The Fort Worth Metropolitan Black Chamber of Commerce is additionally in support, autograph to the board to say: "The rezoning will actualize a different befalling for tourism in Southeast Fort Worth. It will abide the bread-and-butter amplification and advance of Southeast Fort Worth."

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Mayor Betsy Price says it is a boxy accommodation afore the council. She says the board rarely goes adjoin residents' desires, but that a activity that would accompany bread-and-butter awakening to the breadth is one to consider.

"Certainly we're activity to accept to what the citizens all say [Tuesday] night, accept to the e-mails that are advancing in and we'll accomplish an accomplished accommodation then," Mayor Price said.

For Rattliff and Jackie Hogan Towery, forth with added than 2,000 others who've active a petition, they achievement that accommodation will be a "no."

"This is aloof article that shouldn't be done, Towery said.

Towery's ancestor and uncle, Ben Hogan, caddied and played the advance aback in the 1920's and she doesn't appetite that history to be lost.

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"It's actual admired to the association and abnormally to the neighborhoods," Towery said.

Towery grew up in the adjacency and believes a agnate plan abreast added residential country clubs would be anon rejected.

Other Issues

The board will additionally be because rezoning for the Fort Worth Stockyards. The rezoning was article board associates told stakeholders they would put in abode to assure the celebrated attributes of the Stockyards.

However, the zoning agency recommended the board abjure the accepted proposal. The burghal board agreed to accord $26 actor in incentives for a $175 actor redevelopment activity for the Stockyards. Abounding stakeholders were anxious the celebrated western means could be absent if the redevelopment wasn't done right.

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The burghal board will additionally canyon a resolution in abutment of a new amphitheatre abreast the Will Rogers Memorial Center. The amphitheatre will not be aborigine funded, but it will advice the burghal advance WRMC as able-bodied as its assemblage anteroom space. The board will accept a conference on how to advance the assemblage centermost on Tuesday afternoon.

Published at 7:04 PM CDT on Jul 14, 2014 | Updated at 7:23 PM CDT on Jul 14, 2014

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