Developers planning to build on the former Wedgewood Golf Course want the City Commission to approve a revised plan that swaps many of the apartments for townhomes and reworks the streets to ease traffic on Carpenters Way.
If the new site layout for the nearly 129-acre project is approved, it would override zoning adopted in 2022. The Commission is expected to vote on the request on Dec. 15, although work couldn’t begin until a development agreement is finalized.
What the developers are asking for
The 18-hole Wedgewood Golf Course closed in May 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Mulberry-based SJD Development purchased it from Kanes Golf of Florida for $4.5 million in December 2021.
The existing zoning allows 834 apartments, 60 townhomes and 60 single-family homes, for a total of 954 units across multiple tracts on both sides of Carpenters Way…