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A deal presented to the County Council Tuesday would have the county paying Holly Hill-based developer Parker Mynchenberg more than $1.3 million for a 36-acre parcel near the edge of his planned 1,577-home Plantation Oaks development. Private citizens approached Mynchenberg just as he was moving close to breaking ground on the project, with the developer planning to sign a contract with his builder today. Understandably, he wanted a purchase contract to be negotiated ASAP. Unfortunately, county government can’t turn on a dime, let alone 136 million of them. Council members don’t have a source for this money; the most likely pot, the Volusia Forever fund recently re-approved by voters, doesn’t have its ground rules in place yet. Trying to raid those funds before they’re even authorized would fly directly in the face of promises made during the campaign to reauthorize Volusia Forever and its sister program, ECHO. Voters were told this money would be spent cautiously, wit ....