William J.

Forbes company created a 12,800 acre, 3500 lot, subdivision in Missouri called Forbes Lake of the Ozarks Park in 1983-1984, but they failed to bother to get the legally required Missouri Department of Natural Resources approvals to make this subdivision a legal subdivision. Now Missouri DNR has decided to go after all the current lot owners and after the private Forbes Land Owners Association due to Forbes company not following the subdivision laws at that time. Missouri DNR is now considering it illegal for 3500 lot owners, who have been paying taxes and association dues for almost 40 years, from building on or re-selling their lots. This (retroactive) regulating from DNR against those who bought lots in Forbes LOA subdivision in good faith over the last 40 years, believing the subdivision was a legal subdivision, is harming 3500 lot owners. Forbes should step up and do whatever is now required by Missouri DNR to make Forbes LOA subdivision legal. But I doubt that will ever happen because I suspect that money is more important to Forbes than the thousands of people who believed that any subdivision developed by Forbes, and with Forbes name on it, was legal and not a scam.