He s walked into a very tough situation by buying land that happens to have something important on it, and I think the media is often unsympathetic to that. If we don t give the developer a fair shake, what s at risk here is future sites. You are going to see a diminishing of cooperation, and in turn discoveries. We ve created in the last 20 years a climate of cooperation, and you can raise that question with some forcefulness, whether we want one bad experience to destroy the whole atmosphere. That very well could happen.
Lets take it out into a broader perspective.
That s important because we are the best guardians of our community. We live here, we raise our children here, we have the responsibility of preserving our past. We cannot look to the state for the true level of effectiveness that we have, or the level of sensitivity. I ll give you some examples. When we review projects here in Miami-Dade County in terms of archaeological impact, less than 10 percent of them are subject for review by the federal government or by the state.