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ATTORNEY COLLINS INFORMED THOSE PRESENT THAT HIS FIRM HAS <br />a <br />DONE WORK FOR VISTA PROPERTIES WHICH COULD CAUSE A CONFLICT OF INTEREST, <br />AND HE WILL ABSTAIN FROM ANY DISCUSSION OF THIS MATTER. <br />MR, LARSON STATED THAT IN SEPTEMBER OF 1976 VISTA PROPERTIES <br />RECEIVED A CEASE AND DESIST ORDER FROM THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS, THE <br />REASON FOR WHICH WAS THE PLACING OF SPOIL IN WETLANDS ADJACENT TO NAVI- <br />GABLE WATERS, HE THEN WENT ON TO GIVE THE HISTORY BEHIND THIS SITUA- <br />TION AND EXPLAINED THAT WHEN VISTA ROYALE WAS CONCEIVED IN 1971, THEY <br />TRIED TO GET ALL THE VARIOUS PERMITS IN LINE SO NOTHING WOULD STOP THE <br />PROJECT ONCE IT GOT STARTED. TO ACHIEVE THIS, AND BECAUSE OF THEIR <br />CONCERN ABOUT THE AREA TO THE EAST WHICH WAS IMPOUNDED BY THE MOS- <br />QUITO CONTROL DISTRICT, THEY HAD REPRESENTATATIVES FROM THE TRUSTEES <br />OF THE INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT FUND AND POLLUTION CONTROL INSPECT THIS <br />AREA. AT THAT TIME THESE REPRESENTATIVES STATED THEY HAD NO JURIS- <br />DICTION IN THE SUBJECT AREA AS IT WAS ABOVE THE MEAN HIGH WATER LINE <br />AND VISTA PROPERTIES WAS GIVEN THE GO-AHEAD WITHOUT ANY PROBLEM. SIR. <br />LARSON CONTINUED THAT EVEN THOUGH THIS WAS BEFORE THE TIME OF ALL THE <br />HARDCORE ENVIRONMENTAL RESTRICTIONS, VISTA PROPERTIES TRIED TO RETAIN <br />THE NATURAL BEAUTY OF THE AREA AND INCORPORATE IT IN THEIR PROJECT. HE <br />NOTED THAT THEY WISHED TO MAKE IT A SELF-CONTAINED AND SELF-SUFFICIENT <br />PROJECT - TO HAVE THEIR OWN WATER SUPPLY AND TREATMENT PLANT AND TO <br />`RETAIN THE STORM WATER ON THE PROJECT IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO RECHARGE <br />TO PREVENT SALT WATER INTRUSION. TO THIS END, THE WHOLE AREA TO THE <br />EAST WAS PLANNED TO BE LAKES, AND SINCE THEY ARE SO CLOSE TO THE INDIAN <br />RIVER, THEY WANTED TO BE SURE OF HAVING SOME DIKE SYSTEM TO KEEP WATER <br />FROM THE RIVER OUT OF THE PROJECT. MR, LARSON NOTED THAT THE AREA <br />UNDER DISCUSSION WAS NEVER DESIGNED FOR DEVELOPMENT, BUT FOR LAKE PUR- <br />POSES AND EXPLAINED HOW THEY WORKED WITH MR. BEIDLER OF THE MOSQUITO <br />CONTROL DISTRICT AND HAD THEIR DIKES RECONSTRUCTED ON THE EASTERN BOUN- <br />DARY LINE, WHICH WAS LANDWARD OF THE MEAN HIGH WATER LINE, IN LATE <br />1976,ACTUAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE LAKE ITSELF WAS STARTED, AND MR, LARSON <br />EXPLAINED THIS WAS DONE BY MEANS OF A DRAGLINE, FRONT-END LOADER AND <br />DUMP TRUCK, IN ORDER FOR THE DRAGLINE.TO WORK, THEY HAD TO BUILD A <br />14 <br />Beit 29 14 <br />
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