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Originally Posted by Two Bills
If someone is paying an amenity fee for each apartment, why shouldn't residents have full amenity access?
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Simple answer, the area was fully built out over 20 years ago and the existing amenities were designed and sized for that population. The existing amenities in that area are already overcrowded and at best barely support the existing population, especially the nearby sports pool and executive courses. Adding more residential units with amenity rights, without any correspondingly increasing the amenities, is not in any way in the best interests of the existing residents of the area. The AAC really dropped the ball by granting amenity rights to approximately 150 additional residential units in an already mature area without any increase in available amenities. If the apartment dwellers didn’t have amenity rights and weren’t planning to use the amenities, they wouldn’t have to pay the fees so they would be happy. If they don’t want to buy without amenity rights, that means they plan on using the already overcrowded amenities, which is bad for existing residents. The job of the AAC is to look out for existing residents, and they clearly dropped the ball (no doubt under pressure from a very powerful outside party) by granting the additional amenity rights.