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Dear Commissioner LoCastro:
Dear Commissioner Solis:
I have been an owner of a condominium at the Regatta at Vanderbilt Beach since 2004. I purchased in the Regatta because I loved the location and the low key neighborhood. The area was
not over developed with high rises and had a really local, non-touristy feel to it. The beach was pristine and sparsely occupied even in February and March. But if you have been to
Vanderbilt Beach at any time in the last couple of years then you know that (due to the addition of the public parking garage) it is completely overcrowded every single day of the week,
even in the off season. It is often difficult to find a spot where others are not right on top of you. People are sitting so close to each other that you might as well be vacationing
together. Frankly, with the current state of the beach, I am truly surprised that Stock wants to build this many high end condos overlooking a beach so crowded that million dollar buyers
would probably not even want to go there themselves, much less take their guests there. Nevertheless, they are moving forward.
This project is so disproportionate to the surrounding area. It is in no way comparable to the Pelican Bay planned development and should not be considered in that light. The negative
and lasting impact on the area would be irrecoverable. The precedent this would set for all of Vanderbilt Beach (and for Collier County) would be horrendous. What would stop developers
from over building on the rest of Vanderbilt Beach if this development is approved. The snowball effect could not be stopped.
There is a reason the County has development standards in place — to promote reasonable development that is compatible with its surroundings. If the county code and standards are to
be ignored, then why do they exist? Certainly, as an owner in the Vanderbilt neighborhood, I never thought a development of such disproportionate scale and magnitude could come to us.
That's one reason I chose this neighborhood.
Please protect the integrity of Vanderbilt Beach and don't allow this project to open the flood gates of over development in this area.
In hopes of a more reasonable project, I am respectfully,
Anne E. Eckhart, 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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