A majority of Seminole County homeowners living near the shuttered Deer Run Country Club showed enthusiastic support for county plans to convert the former golf course into a public park, voting to create a special taxing district to help transform and preserve the area.

About 67% of property owners surrounding the former golf course voted in favor of forming a municipal service benefit unit, or MSBU, which will charge 2,273 homes either $130 or $65 a year — depending on proximity to the new park — for 15 years. A well-organized group of volunteers in the area helped mobilize the effort, called Save Deer Run, securing just over 1,600 petitions, almost 95% in favor of the initiative.