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SRL: -He ... I don't know· how to say this ... he's a developer.
That's ·his business. He's a millionaire, a multi-
millionaire, and he's done it all himself. And all he can
see is development. He does not see the value of the
agricultural land that's fast going through our fingers
world wide, and the particular value of this historically.
300 I'm hoping very much (I've been mentally writing so
many letters to him) about the possibility of the county
revisiting the forty acre part, and looking at the map very
carefully, we could live -.the Museum could live with -
fifteen acres, very nicely. It would go from the road ... it
would go for about four or five rows of trees on that-side
[west] and about ten rows on that side [east] for a buffer;
from the highway down to this row of -gum trees, instead of
going to the river.
When I first had to cut out the forty acres I.was
trying to a VO id as much of the g agriculturalland as po possible.
so I went straight to the river because the sand down there·
_is useless, but I included all of the buildings that were
remotely historic.
The little workers' houses across the·road, only one is
being lived in now, but they were all lived in until just a
very, oh, maybe four or five· years ago and those were built
bef6re the turn of the twentieth century, and now they're
being eaten up by termites. I'm restoring one of them, to
be lived in, because we do need people living on the ranch.
But if that went back to the ranch, then it would be
the ranch's responsibility- (laughs).

CT: So with the fifteen acres, you think he -will perhaps be more
amenable to that.

SRL: I'm hoping very much that he will be.

SL: And Atlas will shrug.

CT: We are talking really about future history, but that's why I
am including this. In essence, your fearful anticipation is
that he might want to develop .all of the ranch land into
housing tracts?

SRL: He won't be able to because, so far, this is the green belt,
you know. He can't do that. Until that_went through, he
had very bright eyes.
So now he's kind of ... - this is small potatoes to him.
It really is very small potatoes to him,.however, he can •..
it's a control thing. He can block things; however, Boo and
I can outvote him. However, in order to actually legally

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