Opinion ID: 1702325
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Heading: Private Country Club

Text: The Northern Palm Beach Water Control District (District), a public drainage district of the State of Florida, proposes to issue $16,312,500 in government revenue bonds to pay for the construction and maintenance of approximately 24,000 feet of roadway within Unit of Development No. 31, otherwise known as the JDM Country Club (Club), a planned 1,313-acre private golf and tennis club. The District's Board of Supervisors (Board) adopted a formal Water Management Plan (Plan) for the Club, which provides in part: The Unit 31 site, known as JDM Country Club, is being developed as a Planned Community District under the procedures and requirements of the City of Palm Beach Gardens Code of Ordinances. The development will include [2,384 single family dwelling units], park areas and three golf courses. The homes within the Club will occupy prime residential sites abutting, or lying in close proximity to, the fairways and greens of the three golf courses and, according to Paul Urschalitz, the District's security expert, will vary in price from a quarter-million to over a million dollars apiece: Q. Would you anticipate looking at the type homes  did you have a chance to get an idea of what type of homes they're going to put in there? A. Yes. Q. What type of price range homes did you look at? A. I think they're listed in this document, two hundred and fifty thousand to over a million... . In addition to the roadway itself, the District will pay for extensive roadway improvements within the Club. Tracy Bennett, the District's engineer, testified: The onsite roadway improvements include paving of the roadways, the striping, the signage, landscaping with the roadways, irrigation to maintain the landscaping and sodding, bridges, an overpass, culverts, street lighting, security gatehouses, and secondary drainage system consisting of storm drainage pipes, inlets, manholes and surface drainage.