SPARKS, Nevada — Residents of the master-planned residential neighborhood Wingfield showed up in force at a community meeting to express their opposition to a plan to turn part of a neighboring golf course into a housing development.
Hundreds of people packed the cafeteria of Sky Ranch Middle School in Sparks last week a meeting held by the Wingfield Springs Preservation Group. The public meeting was organized to galvanize efforts against plans by Red Hawk Golf and Resort to build hundreds of homes at the golf course.
“The purpose of this meeting is to start a process of organizing a community of individuals who have one thing very much in common, and that is opposition to this development,” said Brian Moore, director of the Wingfield Springs Community Association, which also opposes the project…