DeSantis pulls ‘half-baked’ development plans in Florida state parks after protests

Republican Governor DeSantis’s Department of Environmental Protection unveiled the plans for the Great Outdoors Initiative last week and had planned a single hour of public hearings near the nine affected parks.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said Wednesday that a controversial proposal by his administration to develop golf courses, pickleball courts, and hotels at state parks is “going back to the drawing board.”