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private community, if you will, that's going to be pretty much secondary housing, I think, but
<br />-, and it also meshed with our eye on trying to maintain a economically viable plan at all times.
<br />So what happened, and Norman touched on it, is you've got a golf course, and if you look at
<br />the 109 acres of public area that's being transferred, there's six holes of the golf course that
<br />separate the edge of the homes that are set back an average of 440 feet, I think, and more often
<br />than not the homes and lots would be set back quite a bit further. But the open space that is
<br />the golf course is going to be between the open space that is active public space along the
<br />shoreline and for public park purposes, and everybody thought that that was a pretty innovative
<br />design so that there would be, you know, a good buffer there. And it just so happens that the
<br />golf course and the public area, for the most part, avoids all of the anchialine ponds and
<br />preserves the archaeological features that are designated to be preserved.
<br />Speaking of those archaeological features, there are a number of data recovered sites that were
<br />not required to be maintained on the property, preserved, if you will, and the committee got
<br />into that in quite a bit of detail because notwithstanding the fact that the State agency said they
<br />didn't have to be preserved on site, we were asked to see if we could, nevertheless, try to
<br />preserve them. And we've done so, and your exhibits in the SMA application demonstrate
<br />that.
<br />At the end of the process with the subcommittee, the developers' goals and objectives have
<br />been set forth, but they're not necessarily required to be -, we're not required to be held to
<br />that, those standards that we're setting for ourselves, until and unless the County promulgates
<br />an approval with conditions of approval. To assure that early on all of the hard work of the
<br />committee and all of the specific aspects of the site plan that were hammered out during this
<br />time are assured to be resulting in the physical way that they have been planned, all of the
<br />parties, the parties at the work group agreed to a Good Faith Agreement, if you will, and that's
<br />in Exhibit -, or Appendix I, I believe, in your SMA application. A Good Faith Agreement was
<br />-, a memorandum of it was recorded with the Bureau of Land Conveyances, and it essentially
<br />is a binding agreement that will assure that everything we have represented on our plan will be
<br />done in accordance with the plan.
<br />So that's pretty much of a watershed event that speaks to, speaks volumes regarding the
<br />process here. I think it's something extraordinary. It is -, the Good Faith Agreement itself,
<br />the contract, if you will, was -, that idea was germinated by Councilman Tyler. It's a very
<br />sound idea, and many people have spoken to the idea that this is the way large projects at least
<br />should be addressed with public and private participation.
<br />There's a lot of work to go here now. We have, at this stage before you, a conceptual plan,
<br />and I want to underscore that because we don't have all the answers as to how this project
<br />needs to be designed in its final design aspects. As a matter of fact, if the project's approved,
<br />we would have at least six months of design activity with an army of various civil engineers
<br />and other disciplines that will get into every aspects of trying to responsibly implement the
<br />conditions of approval and the Good Faith Agreement. And to do that, as Councilman Tyler
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