Alan Graham

There was no zoning and no body that could approve what we would build on that property.

And so the big fear is crime and lower property values.

Well, when I contracted for that property in 2010, I could buy any house next door for, call it plus or minus $150,000.

Today, it's plus or minus $450,000.

The other argument is crime.

There hasn't been one reported crime that I'm aware of by anybody from our neighborhood in the neighborhood next door.

And there have been 13 crimes by that neighborhood into our community.

Mostly juveniles, stealing our golf carts, our Polaris, shoplifting out of our market, stealing bicycles, you know, random juvenile, the kind of stuff that I would have been doing if I was 14 or 15 years old.

Yeah.

And I love those guys.

And, look, we work with them, you know, to help them.

But if you're going to put a barbed wire fence, it needs to be on their side of the deal, not our side.

Yeah.

Now, look, we got plenty of bullshit inside of our neighborhood.

This is not nirvana.

I don't want anybody walking away.

We have plenty of stuff going on, but it's not the gunfight at the OK Corral.

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