FULL STORY: Miami-Dade clears way for hundreds of homes on Kendall golf course<\/a><\/p>\nHere are key takeaways:<\/p>\n
\u2022 The project shrank significantly. GL Homes originally proposed 1,300 homes. A settlement with the Tropical Audubon Society widened the buffer zone around a rare bird nesting site from 100 feet to 330 feet, reducing the plan from 540 homes to 524.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Not everyone agrees on the deal. Save Calusa Inc., the nonprofit that has fought the development for years, did not sign the settlement. Leader Amanda Prieto said she was \u201cdefinitely disappointed\u201d and called it \u201ca tremendous loss for the community.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 A legal challenge may follow \u2014 again. Save Calusa Inc.\u2019s attorney said he had not yet decided whether to file a lawsuit or appeal. A previous lawsuit after a 2021 approval went to the Florida Supreme Court and forced the developer to restart the zoning process.<\/p>\n
\u2022 The developer is proceeding with caution. GL Homes senior executive Richard Norwalk said the firm will start permitting right away but noted the project\u2019s rocky history: \u201cWe passed zoning just like this in 2021, and here we are today, so you\u2019ll get no predictions from me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 Home prices are expected to exceed those of surrounding houses. GL Homes did not specify pricing, and Norwalk could not say when construction would be completed.<\/p>\n
This report was produced with the assistance of a proprietary tool powered by artificial intelligence and using our own originally reported, written and published content. It was reviewed and edited by our journalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GL Homes plans to transform the shuttered Calusa golf course into a suburban community of single-family homes. GL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-248157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}