Jones would be
disappointed
Poor Fay Jones, the great architect, who designed the Bella Vista Country Club, the famous Mildred B. Cooper Memorial Chapel and the Thorncrown Worship Center, and was trained by the even greater architect Frank Lloyd Wright, must be turning over in his grave to learn that developers are planning to build tract homes with a "cookie cutter" design directly across from (and well within view) of the beautiful Bella Vista Country Club.
According to plans shared with homeowners in the area, the tract homes with ugly privacy fences and detention ponds also will infringe on the 10th and 18th holes of our golf course.
The design will dictate a hook shot for a right handed golfer from each tee box. Few players can hook a golf shot on command. However, the developer insists that golfers must learn to hook the ball off those two tee boxes once development is complete.
Please Mr. Developer, rethink this sacrilegious idea of building tacky tract houses across from one of Fay Jones' greatest accomplishments. Don't make him turn over in his grave!
Build homes or townhouses along Dogwood Drive that would make him proud. Build homes or townhouses that will meet or exceed the architectural integrity of pre-existing homes along Dogwood Drive.
Build homes or townhouses that Fay Jones would approve of and leave Mr. Jones comfortably in his grave.
Al Meyer
Bella Vista
Editorial on 04/08/2015