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Update, October 2026: this special use permit has expired. The plans described in the application and presented at www.thegoldengatsby.com have been put aside for the time being, and attention has turned to a community “farm” concept alluded to at www.gatsbyfarm.com, a site that describes a proposed community park and preserve on the course property. This article is kept as a record of the 2024 to 2025 proposal.

Special Use Permit 24-12 was approved on March 4, 2025 subject to eleven conditions. The first four concern the plans. The owner must submit a full site and landscape plan application, including the boundary buffering the Town's ordinance requires, and parking must be clearly shown on the plans, especially for phase 2. The phase 2 parking lot and the maintenance building must have impervious pavement.

The fifth requires a building elevation showing the required screening. The sixth requires a lighting plan, particularly for the areas of expanded recreation. The seventh requires the stormwater drainage crossings for the proposed course to be surveyed, and repaired if necessary, with a copy of the survey given to the Town.

The eighth says all required fees must be paid before final zoning approval, and the tenth says all required local, state and federal permits must be obtained, with copies provided, before final zoning approval. The eleventh requires the site to be maintained in accordance with the approved plans.

The ninth is the one with a clock. All required site improvements must commence within 12 months of the March 4, 2025 approval, that is, by March 4, 2026, or the applicant must ask the Board of Aldermen for an extension of up to six months. An extension would run no later than early September 2026.

The clock ran out: the permit has expired, as the update at the top of this article says. The Town's planning office can say what a new proposal for the property would require.