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Old 03-12-2023, 08:02 PM
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I'm sorry, but this sounds a lot like Monday morning quaterbacking by a fan of the Developer. The Developer did this so it must have been planned and more, it must be a good thing.

There is too much to cover and I don't have the motivation to do the research so just a couple of thoughts:

- The Developer did not own the land south of 44 and had no reason to believe they would acquire the land. Stating that there would be no development south of 44 was an assumption but it was a reasonable assumption. It is certainly likely that the Developer desired to continue building (that's their business after all) but it wasn't a certainty that they would be able to.

- If Brownwood could not exist without all the development south of 44 then how can Spanish Springs exist without miles and miles of development north of 441?

- The restaurants and the square in Brownwood seemed busy four years ago before most of the homes south of 44 existed; it didn't seem like it was going out of business. Now, Brownwood seems overcrowded and many of us are hoping that Sawgrass takes off and Eastport is built soon to relieve the pressure.
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