Holiday council and RDA approve Royal Holiday Hills affordable-housing agreement after residents ask for delay

The Holiday City Council voted to approve a resolution authorizing an agreement with CAMW Development LLC to advance affordable housing in the Royal Holiday Hills project, and the Redevelopment Agency followed with its own approval. The measures passed after public comment from residents asking for more time to negotiate HOA and shared-amenity terms and after the developer said delay would jeopardize funding and schedule commitments.

Residents from the Holiday Hills community urged the council to postpone action so stakeholders could meet with the developer and iron out details. Tom Peterson, a Holiday Hills resident, said residents felt blindsided by the timing and warned that shared-amenity obligations could create financial burdens for condo owners: "It just causes financial, uncertainty ... the last thing anybody wants to have to get into is litigation," he said, asking council to "please take into consideration, we're…