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Dear Commissioner LoCastro:
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 and to urge you to vote NO to this proposal.
I am writing to express my concern about years, decades really, of County Commissioners putting developers ahead of neighborhoods. Your predecessor was the perfect example. It is true
that Stock Development was good to District 1. I have heard that Stock is a good developer, generally recognizing the relationship between what is good for the community with his need
to make a profit. But I am astonished by what he is trying to do in District 2 at Vanderbilt Beach. I am not one of your constituents, but I am sure that i don't want such a project
in my neighborhood. Voting against Stock’s request for an amendment to the Growth Management Plan will send him back to the drawing board. Perhaps he can come up with a plan that is
more suited to the Vanderbilt Beach community.
You, as the one of the newer commissioners, 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.
I live on Vanderbilt Beach–this is my neighborhood and it is a small close knit community. You only need to drive or walk through on any given day to see people out walking their dogs,
biking, strolling the beach, and generally enjoying the ambiance of a smaller community within Naples. During the high season, the numbers swell with most residents and their guests
enjoying the area, however you only need to drive down Vanderbilt Beach road on a weekend or during the busy season to see how overloaded the area becomes. Too many cars crowding the
roads that are lined with residents walking and biking make it particularly dangerous to pedestrians and cyclists and the beach becomes way overcrowded. The cars line up down the road,
the garage closes, and the stress on the streets and the beach is quite apparent.
Last year-in an unusual situation, during the Co-vid shutdown of the beach, there were many residents already here, and then came an onslaught of people from other areas in the state
when we opened and they were still closed. And though it was awful it served to warn the residents of how it could be all the time if this plan is allowed to go forward!!
Obviously you know that as our beaches were briefly opened and then promptly closed again. The crowds became too large and unruly, leaving the area overcrowded, with the crowds leaving
much trash all along the beach and private property when they left. On the beach side of our building, we had numerous incidences of people entering private property to relieve themselves
and disrobing to change into street clothes because they didn't want to walk to the public restrooms or didn't want to wait in line to use them. We hauled in and threw away clothing,
trash, bottles, cans, coolers, tents, etc that beachgoers left after a day of overcrowding on the beach. The trash cans at the public access areas were also overloaded and insufficient.
I believe that the facilities that are available to the public in the Vanderbilt Beach area were designed and built to manage the crowds that come for the MUCH of the time based on the
amount of land and space that are available. BUT, they are STRESSED at ANY PEAK period of use. That does not include just the highest weeks of "spring break" but also most weekends
and holidays. Putting this large of a residential project in that place is absolutely wrong for the area. I do not object to a smaller project that could enhance the area. I walk to
all of the local restaurants and amenities in the area and love that it is so pedestrian friendly. That is why we invested money into buying a property there. Putting these tall buildings
in this area and also adding so significantly to the traffic , overcrowding on land and also the increase in the number of commercial docks will absolutely overload this neighborhood
and the quiet lagoon and endanger the peace and tranquility of the bay as well as put the local residents and wildlife in danger.
THIS PROJECT IS WRONG FOR THIS COMMUNITY ON SO MANY LEVELS! The zoning was put in place for a reason and there is no reason to change that now just because a developer has made a bad
investment decision.
I believe that Commissioner Solis intends to vote in support of the Stock amendment to the Growth Management Plan. His reason for doing so is flawed.
He feels that the neighborhood is not capable of understanding the nuances of the matter before you, and that he, alone, know what is good for his District. When he tells people, “Be
careful what you wish for.” he is saying that the residents of the affected neighborhood don’t know for what they are asking. I assure you that they do understand the ramifications
of asking that Stock respect the existing C-3 zoning.
One Naples is not simply a District 2 issue. Its approval would send a message that for the Commissioners it is “business as usual,” and the they have little concern for the “Miamification”
of Collier County. It would represent the long-held pattern of the Board of County Commissioners supporting developers over neighborhoods. That must stop! I am asking you to vote to
deny Stock’s 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. Frankly, knowing how much opposition there is to the project’s design, I am amazed that this is a hard decision for anyone of the commissioners whose
job it is to protect their constituent's interests.
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 taxpaying constituents. It must stop!
I will be there on March 1st and will be watching the decisions of our county officials and whether they vote in the best interests of their tax paying constituents. I hope you will
make the best decision for the Vanderbilt beach community and deny this special request.
Sincerely,
Terri and Kenneth Hemmelgarn
9485 Gulf Shore Drive
Sunset Bay B201
Naples, Florida
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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