Vanderbilt neighborhood- ONE Naples Request to Change the GMPEXTERNAL EMAIL: This email is from an external source. Confirm this is a trusted sender and use extreme caution when opening attachments or clicking links.
Dear Commissioner LoCastro:
I am a member of the County Planning Commission and I sat through the many hours of testimony at our CCPC meetings regarding the ONE Naples request. I am relatively new to the Planning
Commission. Prior to being appointed I was part of our majority population that believed the County always approves developer requests to change the Growth Management Plan . This is
one of the reasons, I accepted the position. That reputation has to change. We represent the residents not the developers. My mindset is you establish a plan that the residents can
rely and only make changes that benefit the residents of Collier County. I also, go to Vanderbilt beach regularly. To me this is a no brainer to not approve this application. There
is no good reason or any resident support to change our current GMP and certainly no benefit other than to the developer. If you support this request to change, you will be continuing
to prove to the residents of Collier County that you do not represent the residents but rather the developers which would be a very sad message to send the public . As a new Commissioner
it would be a very uplifting message to the residents of Collier County if you vote to reject the One Naples proposal. And quite frankly, approval would make me reconsider if it is
worth my time to be a Planning Commission. Please do the right thing and vote against the ONE Naples request.
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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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