By Frank Cerabino – Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
The brazen move to disregard a “forever” environmental easement on 15 acres in Jupiter to build eight more luxury homes on golfer Jack Nicklaus’ the Bear’s Club invitation-only private community isn’t surprising.
Florida has long been a haven for environmentally destructive unaffordable housing.
The deal would have wiped out the 1993 permanent conservation easement negotiated by Palm Beach County and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, which owned the land that became a small part of the Bear’s Club property.