In 1976, Keith Gubrud was one of the original partners with Dr. Louis Bianchini, Alan Arsenault and Dr. Charlie Koch who purchased the farm land from Vera Heidenreich (see early photos) that became Country Club West HOA. When Keith passed away in 1991, his wife Elaine and Bob Loomis, who had become a partner in 1978, ended up being the only remaining partners. Both built homes on Sand Ave. Elaine is the author of this brief account of the early history leading to the founding of the HOA, with Bob Loomis adding some details.
Elaine begins the narrative . . .
Bob Loomis adds details at this point in the early history.
[We hired Tom Moreland and Associates to do some scenarios for us and decided to develop single family homes on the 9 acres on the east side of the property that had been purchased. Unfortunately, the inflation of 1981 hit us and we could not make the financing pencil out.
We finally began the development in 1986 with Tom Poag as the construction superintendent and engineer. The City would not allow us to do a gated community unless we paid for the streets, sewer, etc. That expense was prohibitive so we had the city put in the amentities and took advantage of 10 year bancrofting. We developed a set of CC&Rs that mandated single story homes on the east portion of the property (15 fairway lots) and two story units on the west side (non-fairway lots). We could not sell with that provision so we amended the CC&Rs to allow two story home throughout and the lots began selling.]
The first lots selected were 660 Sand Ave. by Bob and Barbara Loomis and 780 Sand Ave by Keith and Elaine Gubrud.
Elaine continues the narrative . . .
By spring of 1988, plans had been refined (with the partners reversing their original idea), and zoning was changed to permit a development of single-family dwellings in this first phase. Tome Moregland of M/U/S created the design concept that extended Sand Avenue through the center of the project, with three homes sharing a common . . .
