{"id":358996,"date":"2026-07-31T16:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T16:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/358996\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T16:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T16:28:09","slug":"judge-upholds-restrictions-on-world-golf-village-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/358996\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge upholds restrictions on World Golf Village development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"h980215-p1\">A circuit judge in St. Johns County has upheld decades-old development restrictions tied to <a href=\"https:\/\/jaxtoday.org\/2025\/09\/16\/world-golf-village-proposals\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Golf Village<\/a>, rejecting the World Golf Foundation\u2019s argument that the covenants no longer applied after the development\u2019s original golf-centered vision ended.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h980215-p2\">Judge R. Lee Smith granted IT Land Associates LLC\u2019s motion for summary judgment and denied the foundation\u2019s motion, ruling that the recorded use restrictions remain enforceable because the material facts are not in dispute and the law favors IT Land Associates.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h980215-p3\">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/jaxtoday.org\/2026\/05\/08\/askjaxtoday-world-golf-village\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#AskJAXTDY | What is St. Johns County planning for World Golf Village?<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"h980215-p3\">A summary judgment motion allows a judge to decide a case without a trial when the material facts are not in dispute and the law favors one party.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaxdailyrecord.com\/news\/2026\/jul\/31\/court-preserves-world-golf-village-development-restrictions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest of this story<\/a> at the Jacksonville Daily Record, a Jacksonville Today news partner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A circuit judge in St. Johns County has upheld decades-old development restrictions tied to World Golf Village, rejecting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-358996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358996","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=358996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}