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CAUTION: This message is from an external source. Please use caution when opening attachments or clicking links. Keith wrote the following. My next concern is the size of the development. My guess is that it will be the largest planned community in Vero Beach, the County, and one of the largest in the state - this is not what I, or most Lily's Cay residents, planned for when we purchased our homes. Had I known this was in the works I wouldn't have bought and I strongly feel that the prices we paid did not reflect the impact of such a large project directly across the street. Also, there is yet another development going in on the corner of US I and 41st which will further add to the congestion and in my view negatively impact our quality of life. This does not begin to address what is planned for that land across the street. If you go to page 49 of the . document at this webpage (https://www.irccdd.com/CDR/CDR0720.pdf), you will see that in April of this year another proposal was submitted for development of more single family homes and duplexes on this land. This application is seeking a density of greater than 8 units/acre on some of the land. (The density of the current development is 7.75 units/acre.) I have learned all this in the past 12 hours, including the fact that the Indian River Community Development Department regularly publishes these documents describing developments in the county. This allows the County Commissioners to state that the county is fully transparent in all of their undertakings. Of course, you must travel to the county office building to review any of the specific documents that would address much, if not all, of what Keith (and the rest of us) would like to see. Perish the thought of the county actually providing user-friendly summaries with easily -accessible online documents: Then, the public, including adjacent home- owners and residents, might be able to actually understand what developments are planned. Shortly after I moved to Vero Beach in 2013, a local resident told me that development in this area was controlled by a group of "good old boys" who owned or controlled much of the land, and made certain that they and their friends received the favorable zoning laws and approvals. Having come from California where the laws require independent analysis of every significant development and thus prevent such an inbred system, I dismissed the comment as hyperbolic myth. Then, on my bike rides, I noticed areas far away from the downtown core that had been recently developed with paved public streets while other areas closer to the downtown core still had dirt roads. Now, I've seen what is occurring across the street, including the fact that none of us received notification of the recently -submitted plan for a development with a density of greater than 8/units per acre. That local resident's assessment now appears to have contained more than a little truth.