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Coming to a former golf course near you

Developers may be or already have begun looking to build homes on the closed courses with residents wanting nothing to do with it...

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There will be another round of arguments to determine the fate of a shuttered golf club near New Tampa.

The setting, however, is shifting from Hillsborough County Commission chambers to a 13th Judicial Circuit courtroom.

Home-building company G.L. Acquisitions Corp. filed suit last week seeking to overturn the County Commission’s July decision rejecting the company’s request to rezone the 150 acres of the closed Pebble Creek Golf Club.

G.L. Acquisitions wants to turn the former golf club into a 251-home gated community within the existing Pebble Creek neighborhood. The former golf course, east of Bruce B. Downs Boulevard and just 1.5 miles south of Pasco County, dates to 1967 — five years before the actual Pebble Creek development of 1,353 homes began.

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