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Save Tarpon Woods is a resident-led effort to preserve the existing golf course, protect Brooker Creek-connected habitat, document flooding concerns, and push for transparent public review of any redevelopment or mitigation-bank proposal.

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Reporter facts not to collapse

Campaign position, not an agency finding. Save Tarpon Woods opposes the Brooker Creek Mitigation Bank as proposed and urges agencies to deny it unless every material technical, legal, environmental, and financial gap is resolved in a complete public record.

Application 930235 remains under review; the applicants’ August 26, 2026 response was a filing, not a completeness determination or approval. An earlier application was withdrawn after proposing hydrologic-restoration work. Parcel 3 is depicted inside the proposed bank, and no recorded project conservation easement was identified in the reviewed record.

Roster facts are calendar facts, not a scandal headline: Tanner is a former SWFWMD staff attorney through 2015 and is now applicant-side on 930235; he was not District counsel when 889588 or 930235 were filed. Cartwright has a dated District scientist record and is now GreenSource on 930235. Deibler is FAMB president. Records place Tanner and Vining at a May 2026 public CLE. Cole was copied once on 889588; records place Cole and Armstrong at Hill Ward Henderson during 2024, while Armstrong chaired the Governing Board during 889588. No indexed permit-specific Board communication was located.

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Last verified 21 August 2026.

Campaign position, not an agency finding

Florida’s mitigation-bank world is small

Campaign position, not an agency finding. Records place people now on the applicant’s side in prior District jobs, and they place applicant-side and District-side professionals in the same trade association and the same public CLE. Sequential employment is not a dual hat on Application 930235. Same-firm and same-board facts are not a finding of influence. Neighbors are still entitled to notice the calendar — and to insist that an incomplete file not be waved through on trust.

Chris R. Tanner, Bar 85492Records place Chris R. Tanner at SWFWMD during 2013 through 5 October 2015. His current job is applicant-side private practice at Tanner Heeter; his prior job was SWFWMD staff attorney. He attended the 10 April 2023 Brooker Creek pre-application meeting and was copied on the 14 August 2026 Application 930235 extension email. He was not District counsel when 889588 (2024) or 930235 (2025) were filed.
Lisa Cartwright, PWSRecords place Lisa Cartwright at SWFWMD during a dated 2018 scientist record and at GreenSource during work on Application 930235. Her current job is GreenSource scientist; her prior job was SWFWMD scientist. Bartow is not the Tampa MITBANK desk; sequential jobs are not her reviewing her own application.
Ryan D. DeiblerRecords place Ryan D. Deibler at GreenSource in both application files and at FAMB as president on the board page checked 21 August 2026. A trade-association office is not a District endorsement.
Chris Tanner at FAMBRecords place Ryan D. Deibler and Chris Tanner at FAMB during the board-page snapshot checked 21 August 2026. The page lists Tanner as a director under a stale Manson firm name; his current public firm is Tanner Heeter. Same-board service is not a finding of influence.
Adrienne E. ViningRecords place Chris Tanner and Adrienne E. Vining at the 28 May 2026 ELULS “Mitigation Banking 101” public CLE. Vining is SWFWMD Assistant General Counsel. A public CLE is not a Brooker Creek meeting and is not ex parte. Tanner was not District counsel when 889588 or 930235 were filed.
Katie E. Cole and Ed ArmstrongRecords place Katie E. Cole and Ed Armstrong at Hill Ward Henderson during 2024. Cole was copied 24 April 2024 on 889588-133; Armstrong was SWFWMD Governing Board chair during 889588 and died around September 2025. No indexed permit-specific Board communication was located. Same-firm overlap is not joint representation and is not a Board action on this file.

None of this is a finding that anyone broke a rule. It is why this neighborhood reads the file instead of the FAQ, and why comments belong in Application 930235 while the file is still incomplete.

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Last verified 21 August 2026.

Property

1100 Tarpon Woods Blvd, Palm Harbor, FL 34685.

Core message

Protect the course. Protect the creek. Protect the wildlife.

Public records

ERP Permit 47575.002 / App 930235, plus the withdrawn 47575.000 / App 889588 record and related county process materials are being monitored.

Quote-ready summary

Residents believe Tarpon Woods should remain neighborhood green space and golf-course land, not be converted through a piecemeal process that treats flooding, habitat, traffic, property impacts, and long-term stewardship as disconnected issues.

Campaign position, not an agency finding. Local advocacy packets are withheld pending republication-rights and privacy review.

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