Home builder D.R. Horton advanced its plan to build a subdivision with as many as 224 single-family homes on a golf course in Sharpes, a small town in Brevard County.
The Brevard County Commission unanimously approved a zoning change and an amendment to its comprehensive plan that would allow the conversion of an 18-hole golf course along U.S. 1 to a residential community.
Bo Bar-Novan, who manages land acquisition for the East Florida Division of D.R. Horton, told Florida Today that his company has a contract to buy the golf course, called Sam’s Executive Golf Course.
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