He had not.
He told the participating homeowners that additional documentary records had been preserved and would be reviewed through counsel.
The distinction disappointed those who wanted a decisive public confrontation.
Walter accepted their frustration.
He had experienced enough anger of his own to recognize it.
But he refused to substitute a satisfying accusation for a supportable one.
He had started by defending six flowers against an invented property line.
He would not defend truth by drawing another invented line of his own.
The recorder’s archive sent Walter a digital copy of a cover sheet two days after Leonard’s interview.
The cover sheet was dated three weeks before the disputed grants were recorded.
It listed Boundary Alignment Schedule B as an attachment, even though no such schedule appeared in the final packets.
A handwritten notation near the bottom gave an internal tracking number.
Walter forwarded the file to Nina rather than trying to decipher the initials himself.
Nina requested the associated submission history and contacted Leonard’s counsel to ask whether his office retained a draft of the missing exhibit.
The answer arrived the following Monday.
Leonard had prepared two versions of Schedule B.
The first concerned a limited route for stormwater maintenance equipment during emergencies.
The second described a permanent utility and commercial access corridor of considerably greater width.
Only the first had been discussed publicly, according to the meeting records Martin preserved.
The second matched the geometry used in Harrow Ridge’s development application.
Nina spread the drawings across her conference table.
Caroline Ames attended to explain how the proposed lines related to the field measurements.
The newer schedule cut across sections of six front yards and widened dramatically near the old vacant lot.
It would also place the proposed travel path close to a protected tree on Miriam Stone’s property.
Miriam had planted that tree with her son when he was twelve.
He was thirty-one now and lived in another state.
She had kept the tree alive through droughts, pests, and two severe storms.
Watching a green line pass through its roots made the dispute feel suddenly personal again.
Brenda’s association flyers had called the corridor harmless infrastructure.
The actual drawing contemplated a level of disturbance nobody had explained to Miriam.
Nina asked whether the homeowners remembered ever seeing the second version.
Each said no.
Caroline pointed to a note that referenced a private gate and a turning radius for service trucks.
