COURSE'S NEIGHBOR REMAINS TEED OFF.Byline: Heather MacDonald Staff Writer CANYON COUNTRY - More than a year after Allan Penrose first pleaded with the City Council to stop errant er·rant adj. 1. Roving, especially in search of adventure: knights errant. 2. Straying from the proper course or standards: errant youngsters. 3. golf balls from landing on his house and endangering his children, a solution to the dispute is still out of reach. City officials and representatives of the Robinson Ranch ranch, large farm devoted chiefly to raising and breeding cattle, horses, sheep, and goats. The cattle ranch was introduced from Latin America to Texas and the plains of the W United States and Canada. Golf Course said the impasse im·passe n. 1. A road or passage having no exit; a cul-de-sac. 2. A situation that is so difficult that no progress can be made; a deadlock or a stalemate: reached an impasse in the negotiations. is Penrose's fault because he refuses to agree to a plan that calls for trees to be planted to block the balls and has refused to allow a 200-foot-high fence on the property line that separates his home from the new course. ``Allan Penrose hates the golf course,'' said Ted Robinson Jr., whose Robinson Development Services Inc. runs the course. ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. what else he wants us to do, short of tearing tear·ing n. Epiphora. out the golf course.'' Penrose said he worries every day that his 9-month-old son or 3-year-old daughter will get hit by one of the balls. He wants changes made to the course itself. ``Why isn't the city protecting my children?'' Penrose asked. ``The course needs to be redesigned so the golfers aim further to the left on the back tees, so the balls won't land on my property.'' Penrose lugged 176 golf balls, which he said he had found in his yard over the past several months, to a council meeting earlier this month to illustrate the danger to his children. Councilwoman Laurene Weste said it is unacceptable that a solution has not been found. ``There are children at risk,'' Weste said. ``This just needs to be fixed.'' Earlier this month, Penrose rejected a city-approved plan to plant a combination of poplar Poplar, city, England Poplar, former metropolitan borough, SE England. See Tower Hamlets. poplar, in botany poplar: see willow. and pine trees 15 feet apart to act as a screen between his home and course. Course officials have put up three 20-foot fences surrounding sur·round tr.v. sur·round·ed, sur·round·ing, sur·rounds 1. To extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle. 2. To enclose or confine on all sides so as to bar escape or outside communication. n. the back four tees to prevent golf balls from hitting Penrose's home, and agreed to limit play from those tees when it is windy, Robinson said. Penrose has refused to allow course officials to construct a fourth fence, 32 feet long and 200 feet high, along his property line, a measure city and course officials said would solve the problem entirely. The fence would lower his property's value, Penrose said. The agreement Penrose rejected called for the fence to be installed if the trees don't significantly limit the errant golf balls. Councilman Bob Kellar, who tried to hammer out an agreement, said he was frustrated frus·trate tr.v. frus·trat·ed, frus·trat·ing, frus·trates 1. a. To prevent from accomplishing a purpose or fulfilling a desire; thwart: by the situation. |
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