A fight between homeowners and a group of developers over plans to chop off a chunk of Idaho’s second-oldest golf course for 134 town houses has ratcheted up a notch.
Homeowners near The River Club golf course in Garden City have long objected to plans to redevelop the property next to State Street, including when the city previously approved a plan to build up to 750 homes and town houses there.
In February, Meridian’s Brighton Corp. and the Texas-based owner, Lincoln Property Co., filed a new application to instead build 134 three-story town houses, with commercial buildings along State Street and spots for shopping and dining between them.
A few months before that application was filed, homeowners sued the owners of the golf course over redevelopment plans. They said the owners had made certain promises to them over how they could use the golf course land — and that redeveloping it violated those promises, a claim the owners have denied…