Opinion ID: 1702325
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Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Caribbean Island Motif

Text: The District's Plan calls for extensive roadside landscaping paid for by the District to enhance the private Club's Caribbean Island theme. Extensive landscaping within the onsite roadway rights-of-way system is planned... . The overall theme of the development is to provide a Caribbean Island effect. Strong emphasis in the roadway planting will be on various palm species 20 to 30 feet high with a full-canopied backdrop, accented with dwarf palms and a wide variety of blooming groundcover plants. The remaining open areas will be sodded. The most intensive landscaping treatment is the median, followed by right-of-way adjacent to a development parcel, then right-of-way adjacent to lake open areas... . According to the Plan, [4] the initial cost to the District of this garden-like landscaping is vast. The Plan states: Estimated Costs of Improvements for Unit of Development No. 31 ... . III. Roadway Improvements A. Onsite [Roads] $5,705,000 B. Landscaping Onsite Roads $5,803,000 Thus, the District, a public entity, will pay nearly six million dollars in initial roadside landscaping costs  more than the cost of the entire roadway itself  to promote the private Club's Caribbean Island motif. This amounts to almost one and one-half million dollars of landscaping per mile of proposed roadway for the private Club.