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Dear Commissioner ,
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.
I know full well that this development is not in our District, and that you generally tend to vote with the Commissioner in whose District the project lies. But, in this case I ask you
to act independently. Residents of Commissioner Solis’ District have overwhelmingly shown their opposition. I know that you are aware of that as I know that you have received hundreds
of emails telling you so. I believe that Commissioner Solis intends to vote in support of the Stock amendment to the Growth Management Plan.
One Naples is not simply a District 2 issue. It’s approval would send a message that for the Commissioners it’s “business as usual,” and that they have little concern for the “Miamification”
of Collier County. I am asking you to vote to deny Stock’s proposed amendment to the Growth Management Plan.
This eyesore would add to what already is a lot of traffic on Vanderbilt Beach Road west of the Tamiami Trail. It would strain services at the beach and make the beach itself even more
crowded. It would completely change the tenor of our relaxed beach community.
We will be there on March 1st, virtually.
You, as the “newbie,” have the chance to deliver a message that goes Far beyond Vanderbilt Beach. A vote to deny would deliver a message that you are for all the residents of the County
and that you stand against the “Miamification” of all neighborhoods in all Districts.
Thanks for your consideration, and keep up the good work.
Sincerely,
Joan and marc Saperstein
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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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