GL Homes controversial land swap Ag Reserve deal is killed

The GL Homes' land swap is dead.

Two county commissioners, Mack Bernard and Mayor Gregg Weiss, who had both voted in May to transmit the controversial proposal to the state for review, changed their votes on final reading Tuesday, a rare event. Their flips were enough to kill the effort by the homebuilder to give the county land in the northwest part of the county, (Indian Trails Grove) in exchange for building a high-end development on preserved land west of Boca Raton on a 681-acre parcel known as Hyder West.

The vote was 4-3 against the swap with Commissioners Sara Baxter, Maria Marino and Michael Barnett voting yes. Bernard, Weiss, Maria Sachs and Marci Woodward voted no.