With one commissioner saying that letting the property close without development would “turn [it] into Jurassic Park, with lizards and iguanas running all over the place,” the go-ahead was given for the first building of new single-family homes in Deerfield Beach in 25 years. Deer Creek Golf Club will now have the only course in the city of 75,000.

The owner of the Haverhill, Mass. property is fighting having it put on the block as scheduled on July 28, but a lawsuit over conditions required for its development has led his lender to pursue that course.