West Lafayette Country Club, IU Health hospital zoning plans get APC recommendations

Here’s what cleared the Area Plan Commission Wednesday. Plus, state Senate ‘swatting’ incidents grow, after Sen. Deery’s home targeted Thursday morning

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WEST LAFAYETTE COUNTRY CLUB, IU HEALTH ARNETT HOSPITAL AND OTHER TAKEAWAYS FROM THE AREA PLAN COMMISSION

Here’s what cleared the Area Plan Commission Wednesday:

At the West Lafayette Golf and Country Club: The owners of the West Lafayette Golf and Country Club, closed and vacant since the end of the 2024 season, say the ground won’t be a golf course, again, and a residential use that could accommodate 309 lots on 66 acres is the next best use for the site along U.S. 52 and County Road 300 West.

Neighbors pushed back Wednesday night, saying a residential subdivision of that size would add to existing flooding issues and pose traffic dangers on surrounding roads.

(Photo: Dave Bangert)

Neighbors left steaming, after the Area Plan Commission recommended rezoning the property from agricultural use to R1B/high-density single family residential use. The vote was 10-6, enough to send the recommendation to Tippecanoe County commissioners for a final decision.

In letters to golfers in early 2025, the Day family, owners of the golf course for the past 11 seasons, said that the number of the country club’s supporters was “too small for the numbers to work.” Ryan Munden, an attorney representing the Days during the rezoning request, told APC members that the family bought the former Elks Country Club property with an agreement to maintain it as a golf course through 2020. He said the family did, eventually putting it up for sale in August 2024 after operating the club at a loss for years.

Munden said lining up residential zoning would help market the property or set it up for the current owners to redevelop the land.