December 11, 2018 UPDATE:

A major development: The Outpost property had been in litigation since October of 2016, with Ponte Vedra Corporation (PVC) having sued St. Johns County for not complying with its demands. After numerous hearings, motions and rulings, on December 11th, Judge Traynor denied PVC's Motion for Partial Summary Judgement, and in an eight-page order, outlined exactly why.

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January 8, 2019, The St. Augustine Record provided extensive coverage on the judge's ruling., reporting that the Outpost cannot be altered from Conservation to Residential by an act of the county administrator. Full story here.

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January 10, 2019, Opinion Editor of the St. Augustine Record, Jim Sutton, delivered a scathing critique of Ponte Vedra Corp.'s legal strategy and underscored the environmental value of the Outpost property. See his editorial here.

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February 23, 2018 Update: The Guana Research Reserve released their preliminary findings on the water quality of Guana Lake, and  "the first six months of the study has revealed some concerning water quality conditions, especially in the middle of Guana Lake" which is just downstream from the Outpost where 66 homes are proposed to be built. They said "One indicator of an imbalance in nutrients is the biomass of microscopic algae (phytoplankton) estimated by the photosynthetic  pigment, Chlorophyll a, which was measured at 2 to 6 times the threshold," according to state standards.  "High levels of bacteria and nitrogen have also been observed in both the lake and the river."  Fertilizer run-off from 66 homes would worsen these numbers, and that's just one example of how construction of 66 homes at the Outpost property would adversely impact the water quality of Guana Lake which has been designated an Outstanding Florida Water and is therefore deemed worthy of greater protection.