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They spoke in favor of park and residential utility protections, along with changes to the state's citizens' initiative process.
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Here is a list of some of the major pieces of legislation lawmakers are expected to tackle when the session begins March 4.
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The Environment and Natural Resources Committee unanimously forwarded the measure, a product of last year's heavily criticized plan to add recreational development to state parks.
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After the backlash over the plan to bring golf courses and pickleball courts to state parks, a Stuart Republican filed a bill that would ban those changes.
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This week on The Florida Roundup, we addressed the controversial park plan, how to interpret political polls, and got the latest fact-checks from PolitiFact.
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The initiative to build golf courses, pickleball courts, disc golf courses, hotels and more in nine Florida’s state parks was not an undeveloped idea. There were publicly shared plans, documents and scheduled public meetings across the state.
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The information he shared helped spark massive public backlash against the plans, which have since been stalled.
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"This is the only issue I can remember that united Republicans and Democrats and Independents,” said former DEP director Eric Draper. "No matter what your political beliefs are, you think this is a bad idea.
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This week on The Florida Roundup, we discussed a proposal to add new development to several state parks, the jobs outlook for Florida ahead of Labor Day Weekend, a series of court hearings and other news from across the state.
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Dr. Von D. Mizell-Eula Johnson State Park in Broward County was included in Florida's much maligned Great Outdoors Initiative. The park's history as Broward's 'Colored Beach' has inspired defenders to protest the changes.
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Saying Florida is not getting in the "golf course business," Gov. Ron DeSantis said plans to bring golf, pickleball, hotels and frisbee golf would go back to the drawing board.
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Following protests, DeSantis says a plan to develop state parks is 'going back to the drawing board'The proposal prompted hundreds of protesters to gather at the parks this week and sparked rare bipartisan opposition, including from Florida’s Republican U.S. Sens. Marco Rubio and Rick Scott.