After Lake County gave developer Bobby Ginn a green light, Combs singlehandedly has stopped development progress on an estimated $75-million, 500-unit single-family and multifamily project with two 18-hole golf courses.

Combs told commissioners she has surveys documenting the existence of six historical Native American burial sites on the mixed-use Pine Island development overlooking Lake Apopka near County Road 455, about 40 miles northwest of Downtown Orlando. She alleges a seventh burial site is on County Road 455 where the county is finishing a $70,000 road drainage project.

"No way in hell the county is going to dig up that road work to check on graves that may or may not be underneath the road," a subcontractor representative working on the project tells GlobeSt.com on condition of anonymity. County officials had no formal comment on the road work but clearly are bothered by the allegations on the Pine Island venture.

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