In a new proposal for the shuttered Boca Raton, Fla., club, 202 homes could be built on the golf course, but developers would leave the fairways untouched, keeping the door open for the creation of a park to appease residents. Since the golf course closed in 2005, developer Compson Mizner Trail Inc. and residents have been at odds over how to handle the property’s 130 acres.

Developers have been angling to transform the course near Boca Raton, Fla. since it closed in 2005, and the 130-acre property has become so overgrown that more are relenting to the idea of building on it, although some neighborhood groups still advocate turning it into a park. A zoning commission has recommended approval of a plan to build 288 homes that will now go before the Palm Beach County Commission on January 9.