The group behind the plan to build golf courses in Jonathan Dickinson State Park is withdrawing its proposal, a Florida Department of Environmental Protection spokesman told the Tampa Bay Times on Sunday. In a statement, the state agency said the plan for the state park was submitted by the Tuskegee Dunes Foundation, a little-known group […]
DUNEDIN – For Terry Fortner, the fight to save Honeymoon Island State Park from a proposed development is a personal matter. Nearly 130 years ago, her grandmother Myrtle Scharrer was born in a pioneer home on Caladesi Island, just offshore. For decades, she lived in the tranquility of the pristine island chain that now includes […]
Nearly a year before the DeSantis administration sparked a public outcry with its plans to build golf courses on the valuable lands of a state park on the Atlantic coast, a nonprofit national veterans organization made a similar proposal to state and local authorities. Sen. Gayle Harrell (R-Stuart) told the Tampa Bay Times that Lt. […]
In a scathing letter to Governor Ron DeSantis on Friday, Republican U.S. Senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott, along with local authorities, criticized the rushed process behind state plans to build golf courses in Jonathan Dickinson State Park on Florida’s Atlantic coast. The one-hour hearing scheduled for Tuesday at 3 p.m. during which the public […]
