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Dear Commissioner LoCastro:
One of the most appealing things about Naples is that it has an old Floridian beauty about it, with lovely smaller buildings and a walkable neighborhood feel, and Vanderbilt Beach is
a perfect jewel. The two buildings and either side of the proposed towers are smaller and set back a great deal, allowing better and nicer beach access. The proposed monstrosity is
planned for the area, surrounding Daruma and right along S. Bay Dr. and Vanderbilt Beach Road will hog the waterfront block views and hamper access. Both of these are set back quite
a distance from the road, particularly the Ritz. This project is actually much closer geographically than either the Beechmoor or Ritz and would set a new precedent for density, bleeding
over into virtually every future project for the county.
On March 1 you and your fellow Commissioners will be hearing Stock Development’s application for One Naples. I am writing you today to express my strong opposition to the development
as Stock has proposed it.
Frankly, knowing how much opposition there is to the project’s design, I am amazed that this is a hard decision for you. From what I understand of your logic, you feel that the neighborhood
is not capable of understanding the nuances of the matter before you, and that you, alone, know what is good for us. When you tell people, “Be careful what you wish for.” you are saying
that we don’t know what we are asking.
I assure you that we do understand the ramifications of asking that Stock respect the existing C-3 zoning, and I am asking you to vote to deny his proposed amendment to the Growth Management
Plan. I cannot be more direct. You have for too long and for too often voted to allow developers to run slipshod over the wishes of your taxpaying constituents. It must stop!
I will be watching and listening on March 1st to hold your feet to the fire. Please don’t “33234” Naples to death. Please don’t “33234” this beautiful and distinctive area. I am watching
and I have a long memory and I vote.
Sincerely,
Hanley Kanar
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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