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Dear Commissioner LoCastro:
As a real estate lawyer who has for over 30 years been involved in zoning matters, I find it unfathomable that the massive departure from current rules would be considered at all. I
find myself wondering if consideration of this unneeded and unwanted and ill-conceived development is suggestive of something rotten to the core within local government. On March 1
you and your fellow Commissioners will be hearing Stock Development’s application for One Naples. I am writing to express my strong opposition to the development as Stock has proposed
it. Over the past 40 years, I have witnessed the changes. There has been growth beyond belief, but it has been managed – for the most part – with some care and respect for the charm
that attracted my family to the community in the first place. This would not be just a nail in the coffin to that charm. It would be dropping an anvil on an egg. Please vote against
the proposed amendment to the existing C-3 zoning.
Sincerely,
Dustin D. Nelson, Esq.
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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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