Florida House votes unanimously to keep golf courses, pickleball courts out of state parks

After Gov. Ron DeSantis projected play courses, pickleball courts and different recreational opportunities for Florida authorities parks past summer, the Florida House voted against the plan.

The ballot was 115-0 for the measurement Wednesday, which present goes to the Senate, wherever a akin measure is moving done committees. 

Supporters said nationalist absorption and protests past twelvemonth against what DeSantis called the Great Outdoors Initiative was a cardinal origin successful the governor's consequent determination to shelve it.

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Protesters chant against Gov. Ron DeSantis' program to make authorities parks with concern ventures specified arsenic play courses, pickleball courts and ample hotels during a objection astatine Oleta River State Park Aug. 27, 2024, successful North Miami Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

"I deliberation we were each shocked to perceive what they were going to bash to our precious authorities parks," said Rep. Robin Bartleman, D-Weston, via WUSF. "This is successful nonstop effect to that program and successful nonstop effect to what our constituents wanted america to do."

"The nationalist outcry, you could astir apt perceive it each the mode up to the satellite oregon Mars," said Rep. Lindsay Cross, a Democrat from St. Petersburg who attended immoderate protests. The bill, she added, volition "make definite our chaotic Florida stays wild."

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks to members of the media aft an lawsuit July 27, 2023, successful Chariton, Iowa. (Sergio Flores for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

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Development would inactive beryllium allowed successful the parks, but immoderate projects indispensable beryllium "conservation-based recreational uses" that enactment activities similar hiking, swimming, horseback riding, boating and quality study, according to a House unit analysis.

"Any usage oregon operation enactment indispensable beryllium conducted successful a mode that avoids impacts to a authorities park’s captious situation and earthy and humanities resources," the investigation added.

DeSantis' Department of Environmental Protection projected the plans past summer, but opponents protested, and galore plans were scrapped. Shortly aft the proposal, DeSantis walked backmost the pitch, saying the plans were "going backmost to the drafting board."

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (Octavio Jones/Getty Images)

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"Our authorities parks are precious," Democratic authorities Rep. Allison Tant said. "We person our authorities parks that correspond the existent Florida."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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