When Big Goes Quiet: The largest decisions in this corridor produce the smallest crowds — and the smaller decisions produce the loudest fractures

Development scale is uncorrelated with public scrutiny at the dais in this corridor. The largest single-meeting decisions run as silent unanimous triple-votes; the smaller in-PUD amenity centers attract bloc-fracture votes and stack environmental conditions. On December 4, 2025, Groveland brought 147.47 acres into the City of Groveland Village Core / Village Center / Village Edge stack across three unanimous ordinances with zero public speakers. Six weeks earlier, the same board ran the Gadson Street triple-vote for a 1.9-acre industrial annexation, also with zero public speakers. On March 2, 2026, Minneola's PZC fractured 3-2 on the Whispering Winds amenity center inside an already-approved PUD — and stacked six conditions including dark-sky compliance, native landscaping, and permeable paving exploration on a project that consumed less acreage than a single Brighthill parcel. The pattern names the inverse correlation between project scale and public scrutiny.