The agreement will allow golf course owner Oasis Ranch LLC to pursue development of a boutique hotel on the property while deeding about 80 acres of property back to the homeowners association, with plans to build a new golf course in about two years. The homeowners at Rancho Mirage (Calif.) Country Club are hoping their former…

Jade and Julie Work have purchased the 116-acre property, pledging not to develop it as housing. Though future plans for the site are unclear, it will have a conservation easement placed on it to prevent future residential development, and a vineyard and wine-making operation could be in the cards.

Drought conditions, rising maintenance costs and fewer players are making it no longer financially viable to keep the nearly 50-year-old course in Camarillo, Calif., open, its owner said. Alternative uses are being sought for the 109-acre property that would appeal to community residents, who successfully fought a proposed 2,500-home development two years ago.

Judge Richard Boulware gave Desert Lifestyles LLC until December 30 to turn over all communication related to its recent sale of the Las Vegas property or face daily fines of $10,000. Homeowners filed a lawsuit against Desert Lifestyles after it purchased the property on September 1, shut down the club and course and turned off the water. Desert Lifestyles said it sold the club to Stoneridge Parkway LLC near the end of December, but Stoneridge Parkway then filed for bankruptcy two days later.

An Administrative Hearing Officer has ruled that Oasis Ranch LLC violated a city ordinance when it erected a chain-link fence around Rancho Mirage (Calif.) Country Club, and must remove it. In Las Vegas, a judge ruled that the owners of Silverstone Golf Club must begin maintaining the property after residents began complaining in September about the golf course falling into neglect.

More than 300 people who live near the Las Vegas property secured a temporary restraining order to keep the course watered and vowed to set up human blockades to stop any attempts to tear it up, as part of their objection to the plans of new owner Ronald Richards, who sparked similar controversy after acquiring Escondido CC in California.

In April 2014, about 5 tons of raw chicken manure were spread on the defunct golf course, a move that many believe was done out of spite to annoy residents who opposed the owner’s development plans. The owner referred to the manure as a “soil enhancer” and admitted no wrongdoing, referring to the settlement as a “donation.”