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Protect the course. Protect the creek. Protect the wildlife.

Campaign position, not an agency finding. If the Brooker Creek Mitigation Bank is permitted, Tarpon Woods becomes a private wetland-credit site — not a public park. If it is denied or withdrawn, no agency order requires continued golf-course operation. Any different future proposal would require its own complete public record and separate approvals. Incomplete is not protection.

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Confirmed by current official record: no separate County housing application was identified in the records reviewed for this site. Unfiled is not impossible.

Current permit status last verified . Recheck time-sensitive agency information after seven days.

Campaign position, not an agency finding

What’s at stake

Campaign position, not an agency finding. If this neighborhood only tracks the permit portal, it can still lose the landscape.

If the bank is permittedThe course becomes a credit site, not a park. If the bank is deniedNo agency order requires continued golf-course operation; a different future proposal would require separate review. If another proposal appearsIt must be judged on its own complete application, evidence, notice, and governing standards. The roster is publicFormer District jobs, a trade-association board, and a public CLE are on the calendar. Not a charge sheet.
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Neighbor desk

A neighborhood desk for Tarpon Woods.

A neighborhood-wide desk for contacts, calendar, flooding, golf balls, and upkeep. Does not replace any condo or multifamily board.

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Current Status

District issued an October 21 Clarification Letter; the application remains Incomplete

On October 21, 2026, SWFWMD issued a Clarification Letter on Application 930235 listing 14 required items. The letter says the application still lacks components needed to complete review. As of the November 6, 2026 verify, the SWFWMD public viewer still listed Application 930235 / ERP 47575.002 as Incomplete, with blank completeness and denied dates and no permit approval shown. No document typed as a Clarification response was posted; later documents include E-mail Records dated October 23 and November 2, 2026.

Clarification requested
Application
930235

Brooker Creek Mitigation Bank

Permit identifier
47575.002
Last agency action
October 21, 2026

SWFWMD Clarification Letter from Todd Boyle and Lee Hughes. The letter lists 14 required items covering cost estimates, planting and UMAM scoring, survey, title and easement errors, legal interest, title-exception language, and a fee title holder that is not an applicant.

Recent applicant-side documents
September 18–21, 2026

After the September 16 verify, the Documents tab listed RAI/CLAR Partial Responses (September 18 and 21), a Response to RAI (September 21), and an RAI/CLAR Supplemental (September 21). These are listed by document type and date only. No Clarification response to the October 21 letter was posted as of November 6, 2026.

Clarification response window
About January 19, 2027

The letter says the response must be received within 90 days from the date of the request (about January 19, 2027). It states that failure to provide the information within 90 days will delay processing and may result in denial, and that the applicant may make a written request for a time extension with acceptable justification. This is not a public hearing or petition deadline.

Next project-specific public date
None verified

No next project-specific public meeting, hearing, or public-comment date has been verified.

Last verified
November 6, 2026

Checked against the SWFWMD public viewer (warehouse as of November 6, 2026, 1:10 PM). Stale-data threshold: 7 days. Source access dates are listed below.

What changed: SWFWMD issued an October 21 Clarification Letter with 14 required items and a 90-day response window. What did not: as of November 6, 2026, SWFWMD had made no completeness determination and had not approved the permit. Always check the official record.

Full Current StatusOfficial permit recordOpen applicant August 26 RAI responseSWFWMD noticing information
August 26 permit update

The applicants filed their RAI response. The fight moves into review.

Campaign position, not an agency finding. We reviewed the 121-page package. It still leaves serious questions about ownership, wildlife review, wetland hydrology, upland-generated credits, early credit release, planting commitments, fencing, and financial assurance. Submission is not acceptance or approval.

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October 8 emergency flood notice · receipt confirmed October 9

Brooker Creek went over its banks. We put the reviewing agencies on notice.

Save Tarpon Woods campaign position—not an agency finding. During the October 8 rain event, William R. Nobles, Jr. personally observed Brooker Creek outside its normal channel along the eastern boundary of his Annwood Road property. At 2:00 p.m. EDT, provisional USGS data for station 02307359 recorded a gage height of 11.88 feet and discharge of 253 cubic feet per second—only 0.12 foot, approximately 1.44 inches, below the 12.0-foot roadway-flooding level identified in that morning’s Alert Pinellas warning.

The gage rose 2.61 feet over the preceding 36 hours, 1.45 feet over 24 hours, and 0.39 foot over 12 hours. Those figures describe measured past changes; they are not a straight-line projection or an official crest forecast. The 11.88-foot reading is gage height above the station reference datum, not creek depth. USGS separately reported a water-surface elevation of 11.15 feet NAVD 1988, so those values must not be compared with survey or FEMA elevations until the vertical datums are reconciled.

The October 8 notice demands immediate preservation of this event data, field documentation while evidence remains visible, watershed-scale existing-versus-proposed hydraulic modeling, a floodway no-rise analysis, drainage-easement and conveyance-capacity review, independent peer review, and no floodway or connected-floodplain disturbance until the required record is complete and accepted.

Read the emergency notice (PDF)Understand the measurementsPrepare for agency actionAll resident letters

Evidence and agency-response boundary: SWFWMD General Counsel confirmed on October 9 that the District received and reviewed the October 8 emergency notice and prior submissions and placed them in Application 930235’s file of record. That does not establish agreement, technical action, or permit action, and it does not prove that an unbuilt project caused the flooding. The event documents a flood-sensitive receiving system under existing conditions and supplies real-world data that the reviewing agencies should not ignore.

September 16 community action update

Still incomplete. Still unanswered. Every resident must act.

Save Tarpon Woods campaign position—not an agency finding. SWFWMD's public viewer still lists Application 930235 / ERP 47575.002 as Incomplete. The applicant filed 121 pages, but filing is not a completeness determination or approval. Ownership, boundaries, the FEMA floodway, hydrology, wetland credits, soil disturbance, wildlife, planting, costs, and perpetual financial protection still demand answers.

A September 16 consolidated demand restates all seventeen unresolved categories. The August 27 challenge and September 2 supplemental formal demand remain separate and verified in SWFWMD's public file. The community update gives residents a focused call script, official contacts, upcoming public meetings, and direct links to every item.

Read the full community updateSeptember 16 demandRead each letter separatelyOpen Civic Action
September 2 accountability update

Three applications. An unresolved deadline sequence. One public demand: explain it all before any approval.

Save Tarpon Woods campaign position—not an agency finding. The stated June 14 response date passed. SWFWMD received William R. Nobles, Jr.’s closure demand on July 17 at 2:52 p.m.; GreenSource requested another sixty days at 5:38 p.m.—two hours and forty-six minutes later and thirty-three days after June 14. The visible approval chain moved quickly but did not explain which extension provision applied or the particular facts accepted.

No reviewed record establishes improper motive or misconduct. The request for independent review concerns procedure, consistency, documentation, and whether the same standards were applied to similarly situated applicants. The chronology presents an unexplained procedural disparity that warrants an audit trail, records preservation, comparator review, and a written public explanation. Meanwhile, Save Tarpon Woods asks SWFWMD to require reconciliation of the three application designs, acreage and boundary differences, floodway and hydrology, wildlife, credits, physical disturbance, costs, and perpetual funding.

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August 27 resident response

We have put the unresolved risks in writing.

Save Tarpon Woods campaign position—not an agency finding. William R. Nobles, Jr. prepared a detailed public-comment letter challenging the applicants’ August 26 RAI response and asking SWFWMD to require a complete, verifiable record before approval or credit release.

The letter addresses ownership, existing wetlands, the FEMA regulatory floodway, hydrology, wildlife, upland-generated credits, contamination testing, planting feasibility, belowground soil ecology, default safeguards, and perpetual financial assurance.

Read the full challenge letter (PDF)What the letter asks SWFWMD to do

SWFWMD’s current docket lists this resident submission; the website copy is provided for stable access. It remains resident advocacy, not an agency finding or decision.

Official SWFWMD permit files — start here

Follow all three Brooker Creek Mitigation Bank application records.

SWFWMD maintains three related public records affecting the same Tarpon Woods landscape. Use the current application to monitor new activity, and retain both withdrawn records to understand the materially changing design history.

Please allow time for the official record to open. SWFWMD’s older permit system can take 15–30 seconds to build and display a record. After clicking, leave the new tab open while it loads. If it produces an error or never finishes, use the search-instructions link under that permit.
Intervening withdrawn application

ERP 47575.001

Application 907654

This 102-document public docket ran from December 2024 through November 2025 and described excavation, pond and ditch filling, material disposition, and a substantially different credit proposal. It is the design bridge the current filing must reconcile.

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What each SWFWMD tab means

Information appears when it is available or applicable to that permit record.

GeneralBasic permit details, status, project name, applicant, and permittee.
TrackingReview milestones, assigned District staff, deadlines, petitions, and advertising activity.
LocationCounty, watershed, and section-township-range location information.
MapA link to the mapped project location when mapping is available.
FeePermit-processing fees, payments, and receipt information.
Condition TrackingTracking for permit conditions or water-quality requirements when they exist.
ConstructionConstruction, completion, inspection, and operation dates when applicable.
DocumentsPublic uploads and correspondence. This is the key tab to check for the newest records.
NoticingFormal agency-action notices and petition information when posted.
Resident property protection

Document golf-ball, maintenance, or cart-path safety concerns.

Property Incident Records helps neighbors prepare a private community report of a golf-ball, maintenance, visibility, damage, or near-miss incident. It does not contact a government agency or create an official filing.

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Five useful things you can do today

Choose the route that matches your need. Community submissions remain private unless separately reviewed and approved for publication; they are not outside official filings.

1

Join alerts

Get meeting notices, urgent updates, calendar changes, and calls to action.

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3

Submit evidence

Send wildlife photos, sightings, documents, tips, public records, or comparable case leads.

Submit Evidence
4

Report flooding

Document water depth, locations, dates, photos, drainage issues, and Brooker Creek context.

Report Flooding
5

Read what’s at stake

See how the permit decision could permanently change this golf-course landscape—and what neighbors can do now.

What’s at Stake
Campaign position

Preserve the existing course landscape

Save Tarpon Woods supports continued golf-course and compatible open-space use. That is a campaign position, not a statement that a particular future outcome is legally guaranteed.

Current application

The applicant says no earthwork is proposed

Campaign note: that is an applicant statement in a file for which the public viewer had shown no completeness determination or permit approval as of September 16. The withdrawn application described hydrologic restoration.

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Unresolved current record

The application still requires technical reconciliation

Ownership, survey boundaries, floodway interaction, hydrology, credit calculations, planting commitments, and long-term financial assurance must be supported by a complete and internally consistent record.

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Current campaign ask

Review each decision on its own complete record.

Ask SWFWMD to complete a transparent, document-based review of Application 930235 before agency action, and ask Pinellas County to provide public notice and the review required for any separate land-use, zoning, drainage, floodplain, traffic, or site-plan proposal.

SWFWMD mitigation-bank review does not itself approve a separate County land-use project. County land-use review does not itself approve a state mitigation bank. Each decision must rest on its own complete record.

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Follow the verified record

Current status and dated permit events come from the shared status source. The homepage does not maintain a separate countdown or duplicate deadline timeline.

Current StatusLatest verified agency action, applicant filing, operative date, and official links. Detailed TimelineSeparate dated entries for the withdrawn and current applications, each tied to a source. DocumentsA static, source-linked “Read These First” shelf plus reviewed filters. Who Is InvolvedA sourced roster of named people and organizations, with limitations in each profile. Applications on This LandCompare the current filing—without a posted completeness determination as of September 16—with earlier records on the same land. Conditional PathwaysSee what the state permit could decide, what it would not decide, and which separate agency reviews may still matter. What’s at StakeThe campaign’s plain-language explanation of the permit consequences and actions residents can take.

Understand the issue, evidence, and choices

Start with the record you need. Each explainer distinguishes confirmed facts, applicant or proponent statements, campaign positions, and unresolved questions.

Claims vs. the RecordBrief sourced quotations, confirmed points, uncertainties, and why they matter. How Decisions Get MadeSeparate SWFWMD, County, federal, easement, and stewardship roles. Approval and Denial ScenariosConditional outcomes without promising what either decision would cause. AlternativesConservation and compatible-use ideas with funding and willing-seller limits. Species and LawObservation classifications, current legal status, and project-review relevance. MapsOfficial viewers, source dates, boundary limits, and accessible text summaries. Civic ActionVerified official routes, message templates, preparation, and conduct guidance. Property Incident RecordsPrivate community incident intake—not a government contact or official filing.
Evidence, with limits

Species observations and review considerations

The site distinguishes resident observations, photograph identifications, database records, and qualified-biologist confirmation. Species presence can inform surveys, avoidance, consultation, or permit conditions, but presence alone does not decide an application.

Species and LawResident Photo Archive
Rights and privacy reviewed September 2, 2026

200 owner-authorized photo derivatives are public

The Resident Photo Archive includes 178 wildlife, 21 flooding, and 1 landscape derivative. Original files, metadata, and private or sensitive images remain protected.

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Why careful review matters

The Tarpon Woods landscape includes course features, ponds, tree cover, neighborhood drainage concerns, and a connection to the Brooker Creek watershed. The current mitigation-bank application, any later County proposal, and any federal role require their own records and procedures.

  • Track current ERP Permit 47575.002 / Application 930235 separately from withdrawn Application 889588.
  • Record species observations without overstating identification or legal effect.
  • Document flooding, drainage, and property incidents through the correct official and community routes.
  • Check Current Status before acting; no universal hearing or petition deadline is stated here.