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Dear Commissioner LoCastro:
I am writing in reference to your possible support for the One Naples project. Since retiring to Naples some 25 years ago I have witnessed the operation of development in Collier County.
On the surface there is a very impressive Land Development Code. Unfortunately, it is not very effective because the real LDC is what ever the County Commissioners approve. Couple this
with the subliminal system that most commissioners will vote to approve any application that is submitted from a district if the commissioner of that district recommends it. This is
essentially a quid pro quo, “you approve mine and I will approve yours”. Where does this leave the tax paying residents of Collier County. Just as this is one country, our country,
– it is one county, our county. The deviations from the LDC for the One Naples project are an insult to the people. The developers claim that he is saving us from a commercial development
is farcical. That corner is at the end of a dead-end road. It is not at the intersection of two principal roads. Commercial development there would be to serve the local community and
beach goers, something that is more practical but not nearly as profitable.
COL (Ret) Ted Raia, USA
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Dear Commissioner LoCastro,
I am writing you today to express my opposition to the Stock Development One Naples as it is currently proposed. I was encouraged by the action of the Planning Commission and their inability
to recommend approval not only of the current Stock plan, but of a watered-down version that reduced the outrageous tower heights by almost 25%, and extremely diminished setbacks. They
did their job, protecting the community.
Now it’s your turn. Planning Commissioner Frye said it best when he asked the other Commissioners how they could ignore the outpouring of sentiment from the community. These are your
constituents, your voters. Isn’t it your responsibility to listen to those who will live with this atrocity for decades to come and to vehemently deny the developer the right to build
it?
If hundreds of emails exhorting you to deny the project are not enough, if more than eighty people who signed up to speak against the project at the Planning Commission are not enough,
if the 1,100 members of Save Vanderbilt Beach, forty percent of whom have contributed almost $100,000 to engage experts and fight the development are not enough, what exactly will be
enough to persuade you to do the right thing?
Please, when it comes before you, vote to deny the project as it is currently proposed.
In hopes of a more reasonable project, I am respectfully,
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