The new potential water source to which Donald Trump Jr. handed the St. John Town Council the rights in July — and the gargantuan subdivision that was tied to it through its eventual annexation — has dried up, at least for now.

The Town Council at its Wednesday morning meeting voted 4-0, with Councilman Gerry Swets, R-3, absent, to “terminate without second reading” the ordinance that would annex 167 acres of land with a planned-use development on it at 12863 State Line Road after the town built a water treatment facility on it. Once the facility was up and running, South Lake County-based developer Lotton Development would build a 982-unit subdivision on the land.

The motion was first to deny the ordinance, but Councilman Christian Jorgensen, R-2, asked that the language be changed to “

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