Plan to transform Palm Harbor golf club into wetlands stirs dissent

PALM HARBOR — During a public meeting Aug. 28 in the restaurant at Tarpon Woods Golf Club, the roof began to leak amid a torrential late afternoon downpour typical for this time of year.

Thankfully, no one in the standing-room-only audience was injured when a waterlogged tile fell — twice.

But the incident was symbolic of the messy and at times ugly tussle between homeowners in the neighboring residential developments and representatives for the club owners, who unveiled their plans to turn 96%, or about 170 acres, of the 50-year-old facility into a wetland preservation site.

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