Ellie’s Notes – 7/30/23 HELP WANTED!

Hello all – Hope this mid-summer finds you healthy and happy. Many are traveling up North trying to escape the Florida heat.

I have been busy working to protecting our golf courses and will share some highlights shortly. I am urgently requesting some assistance.  I can’t be the primary chief cook and bottle washer in our efforts. I need help if I am to continue to lead this community quest to preserve our lifestyles, protect our golf courses, and ensure the future of our community.

Personal Assistant

I am looking for a personal assistant to become my right hand and auxiliary brain before mine explodes. I do this work as a labor of love for a community that I find second to none. The satisfaction this challenging work has brought and the hope that we may succeed in stopping Clublink is enough. We have smart people, a terrific community, and the raw materials for Sun City Center 2.0. Let’s get a few brave, intelligent, and caring folks to make our community even better.  It is possible to prevail, and the proposed development is far from a done deal. So please if you can find it in your wheelhouse, volunteer to team up to work directly with me on our day-to-day efforts.  I will be out of the country, and someone must fill in while I’m gone to make sure nothing gets away from us or is missed. It is vital.  Thanks for your consideration. Please call me to discuss at 312-282-7337.

SaveSCC Corporate Secretary Needed

Due to the sickness and passing of her father and the need to settle his affairs out of state, Tami Mondy has resigned as SaveSCC Corporate Secretary.  We are seeking candidates to fill this critical board position. If you are interested, please contact me.

Radio Spots

I am pleased to share that I have been in the studio with Sun Radio and Grace FM working on radio spots and shows to continue to pump up awareness and the good news of our promising prospects as we lead the efforts to save the centerpiece golf courses and greens spaces. We are closer to preserving the wonderful character of our neighborhoods and lifestyles here in Sun City Center.

I will send you a blast with airtime for extended programs.

A Question for Everyone to Ponder

What community in its right mind would allow a key amenity integral to the lifestyle, open vistas, wildlife, health, environment, and future to be placed under the control of a third party as owner and operator?  Golf Courses here are 24 % of the land use, second only to residential housing at 34%.  Whether through faulty thinking, short sightedness, or apathy,  wouldn’t you want to correct and neutralize this threat at the lowest cost possible? It is not too late. We must stop development as the first step, but it will take a village – our village – every HOA, every resident, every club, and our CA board to make SCC secure. Let’s get to work!  Go to our web site to join, donate or volunteer. we need you!

Exclusive Freedom Plaza Save Sun City Center Presentation

With the support and approval of Freedom Plaza’s Executive Director – Angie Rohr, I held an exclusive event for Freedom Plaza residents to promote Save Sun City Center and our efforts to protect the golf courses. We got some great exposure, donations and some additional volunteers to help advance the cause. Here is the flyer:

Save Sun City Center (SaveSCC) Presentation

 “Protecting and Preserving the Greater SCC  Area Golf Courses from Development by ClubLink”

Tuesday, June 13 | 2 – 3 p.m. | Freedom Plaza Auditorium

 Presented by Ellie Anderson  – President and Founder of SaveSCC and New Freedom Plaza Resident

ClubLink is owner of seven of the 10 golf courses in the Greater Sun City Center Area, and their development plans proposed to the community on March 23, 2022, represent an existential threat to the centerpiece golf courses and green spaces in our community. ClubLink intends to pursue residential development on some of their 1,200+ acres of land in the community to realize greater profits from their real estate holdings here.  From their point of view, there is more money in development than closed or underperforming golf courses.

Save Sun City Center is an all-volunteer, grassroots organization working to preserve our golf courses and green spaces for future recreational use only. Ultimately, ClubLink’s development plans will require application to the county and approval from the Hillsborough County Commissioners for their project to proceed.  SaveSCC is working to prevent ClubLink from gaining approval of their application before the county by mounting a successful case against rezoning and having the community as a whole resist ClubLink’s efforts.

During this presentation, you will learn how SaveSCC got here, and how you can help prevent this threat to our community’s future and quality of life. We don’t need more houses, traffic, demands on our infrastructure, including water, which is already restricted and suffering low pressure, along with stormwater run-off and management, decreasing EMS response times threatening life and property, as well as the increase of airborne toxic particles and noise through this large-scale building project.

Please come and see what this is all about and how you can help! Come and share the passion for our lifestyle and community. We want to educate you and enlist your help to ensure this residential plan by ClubLink does not come to fruition.

For more information in the interim, please consult SaveSCC’s website at SaveSCC.org or call Ellie at 312-282-7337.

Hope to see you there!

Possible Upcoming Fundraisers 

We’ve got two fundraisers we are exploring. A Save Sun City Center Golf Event and SaveSCC Golf Cart Washes.  We are assembling volunteers to explore, plan and make these events come to fruition. Would you like to be involved?  Let’s make it happen together. Email us at GetInvolved@SaveSCC.org.

Keep the faith and share our email with your SCC friends, neighbors, HOA members and Club Members.  Let’s get the word out!

Hope you’re having as great a summer as I am.

Best to everyone!

Ellie Anderson

312-282-7337