School Board Attorney David Toner said the citizen site-election committee for the Northeast has been looking at the location since the panel went to work in November 1996. Joanne Cody, the county commissioner representing the Northeast, said she had been looking for more recreation acreage for the area for years. I'm excited about these parcels. And if the school doesn't materialize, perhaps we could get a portion of it for a park and the amenities that go with it. Most of the developments up here are PUDs - Planned Unit Developments.
Developers build the homes, a golf course, put up gates and feel they've served the public purpose.
In fact, she said her family once had a summer home out there. She spent her summers there as a child. Cody said that she had talked to Fletcher several months ago about the site's potential as a park. On Friday, Fletcher said his companies will continue to buy lots. It's unimaginable to think that a school or even a park could be developed up there.