"It would be better if everybody was happy about the outcome."
-- Denise Burry
The Leesburg Shuffleboard Club is suing the city, which decided last month to close its shuffleboard courts and donate the land to a nonprofit that helps house homeless young adults.
A complaint filed on Sept. 4 alleges that the city of Leesburg unlawfully gave a city-owned park to a private entity.
On Aug. 26, the city commission voted 4-1 to donate the land that is now part of the Palmetto Street Complex, which houses the shuffleboard courts, to the nonprofit Forward Paths Foundation.
The lawsuit argues that under Leesburg’s charter the city must get voter approval before it can convey public land to a private entity, which it did not do.
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