Agreement to a cacophony of conditions covering everything from outdoor lighting to indoor window treatments helped th e Winter Park Racquet Club get city approval for a controversial expansion project in its upscale neighborhood.

City commissioners Wednesday voted 4-1 to allow the club at 2111 Via Tuscany to tear down a two-story house fronting its campus and replace it with a larger single-story building.

The club founded in 1953 on the shores of Lake Maitland is in the neighborhood known as The Vias, where multimillion-dollar homes with manicured lawns line brick-surfaced streets. The proposal had irked many neighbors, whose concerns went beyond the specific construction project to encompass the number of club members, bright tennis court lights and pickleball noise. Yards across fr

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