Florida Plan to Build Golf Courses on State Parks Lands in the Rough

A controversial proposal to develop golf courses on federally protected state park land in Florida has hit a major snag.

In August, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection released the "Great Outdoors Initiative," which would have seen golf courses built in national parks in the state. The plan reportedly included two 18-hole golf courses and one nine-hole golf course at Jonathan Dickinson State Park, as well as additional pickleball courts or disc golf courses for Oleta River State Park in Miami-Dade County, Honeymoon Island State Park in Pinellas County, Camp Helen State Park in Bay County, Dr. Von D. Mizell-Eula Johnson State Park in Broward County, Grayton Beach State Park in Walton County and Hillsborough River State Park in Hillsborough County.

It also proposed building lodges with up to 350 rooms at Anastasia State Park in St. Johns County and Topsail Hill Preserve State Park in Walton County.

The Tuskegee Dunes Foundation was behind the plan to build the golf courses, the Palm Peach Post reported, with the plans released after they were leaked to environmental activists. The foundation, which is registered in Delaware, told the newspaper that the golf courses and other facilities at the state parks would have told the "inspirational story of the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of African American military pilots and airmen who fought in World War II."

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