A concept plan for redevelopment around the Alvamar golf complex in West Lawrence.

The paperwork has been filed to change the Alvamar golf and country club. (And, no, I’m not talking about that petition to ban me from the area. My attorney says it doesn’t stand a chance, as long as I didn’t use monogrammed golf balls.) Instead, what’s been filed are the rezoning requests that will lead to a rearranging of the golf course to accommodate more housing in the area.

If you remember, we reported back in November that a deal had been struck by Lawrence-based Bliss Sports to buy the golf and country club and redevelop portions of it with more housing and other amenities. These filings are the first official paperwork for the redevelopment plans.

Paul Werner, the Lawrence-based architect for Thomas Fritzel’s Bliss Sports, has filed a series of rezoning requests with the Lawrence-Douglas County planning department. The filings show what was largely expected: Apartment development likely will be part of the redevelopment around the golf course. But how much isn’t yet clear.

The plans call for about seven acres of the golf course complex to be rezoned to RM-24, which is a dense multifamily, apartment-style zoning category. Most of those seven acres are located near where the clubhouses are today, and then to the north and south of the clubhouses.

But we don’t know yet exactly what the development will look like on those seven acres. The RM-24 zoning category allows for a large variety of housing types, not just traditional apartment complex development. For example, a concept plan has called for one portion of the acreage to be used for cabin-style development. The zoning code even allows for traditional single-family homes to be built in RM-24 districts, with a special permit.

The big question right now is how many new living units are going to be built around the golf course. Werner’s office submitted some data that showed if Alvamar had been built according to the original plans filed for the golf course, there could be another 1,400 living units in the general area. I would have to make a substantial infusion into my window replacement fund, if another 1,400 living units end up around the golf course. Werner, however, told me via email this morning that won’t be the number they shoot for.

He told me it is clear that the area his group is looking at won’t handle that number, and the development group “would never plan on that.” He didn’t provide a number of new living units the group does hope to build. But he said the guiding development strategy will be to place the densest and tallest development toward the center of the project, closest to the clubhouses. As the development stretches north and south, it will decrease in density and height, Werner said.

Werner also has filed a request for about five acres of property to be rezoned to single-family use. The area is along the eastern edge of the course near the Quail Creek Drive area, and the property currently is open space.

As we’ve previously reported, the new development would require some holes of the golf course to be rearranged. The latest filings, however, still show that the golf complex would host 36 holes, which is the number it has today.

Based on previous conversations, the changes most likely to occur on the golf course are:

• Relocating the No. 9 green on the public course to accommodate additional housing;

• Moving both the No. 10 public and private fairways to accommodate additional development;

• Narrowing the driving range to allow for additional residential development;

• Moving the No. 17 green on the public course to allow for housing.

The plans also call for the public clubhouse — the smaller of the two clubhouses on the property — to be demolished. It would be replaced with a banquet/event center that could perhaps host events of upwards of 800 people. The plans also envision an expanded KU golf facility. The KU teams currently use Alvamar as their home course. In addition, Werner’s office has said new pools, outside dining and restaurant opportunities also are envisioned for the property.

The plans could receive a hearing before the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission by late February. Sandra Day, a planner working on the project for the planning department, told me the review of the project will include figuring out a maximum number of living units that can be added to the area.

“We’ll want to know that number as part of the rezoning process,” she said.

The development group hopes to begin construction in the Summer of 2015, with work lasting into the winter of 2016.

To help you understand it better, here is a copy of the concept plan that developers are currently working with. More detailed plans, showing roads and other infrastructure improvements will have to be filed before any work could begin.

In other news and notes from around town:

• Details have been released on what has become of downtown Lawrence’s more popular events. The Kansas Craft Brew Expo will take place on March 7, and once again will be held in the Abe & Jake’s event center along the Kansas River.

The event brings more than 30 craft brewers to downtown Lawrence and gives event attendees the chance to sample their beers, interact with brew masters and basically just kneel at the altar of hops and barley.

Tickets go on sale for the event on Thursday. If past performance is any indicator of the future, expect them to go quickly. This year, ticket sales only will occur online. In the past, there were a handful of retail locations, but that’s no longer the case. The event’s website is kscraftbrewfest.com, and also will be available through ticketweb.com. Tickets are $35 apiece.

Like last year, the event will be divided into two sessions: One from noon until 3 p.m. and the second from 4:30 p.m. until 7:30 p.m.

Chuck Magerl, owner and founder of Free State Brewing Co., continues to be the driving force behind the festival. The event also partners with the Kansas Craft Brewers Guild and Downtown Lawrence Inc., which receives a portion of event proceeds.

A list of breweries participating in this year’s event hasn’t yet been released, but here’s a look at who attended in 2014.