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Not cut and pasted!
We appreciate your reply and I was standing in the crowd this morning when you stopped. Any one the the variances Stock is requesting should be enough to stop this. A little stump
speech is great and you’re gifted at it. Doing what is right is more difficult. There is no argument that can convince me that this is good for our area. The fact that you told our
group (opposed to OneNaples) you haven’t made up your mind leads me to believe you already have. You already have all the facts.
Please do what is right.
Art and Ellen Mueller
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On Feb 25, 2021, at 1:50 PM, LoCastroRick <Rick.LoCastro@colliercountyfl.gov> wrote:
Mr. & Mrs. Mueller
Thank you for your email…and your kind words.
As a Commissioner, I am definitely connected with this area… and have spent considerable time at the Beach Box and surrounding areas over many years. Although the Commissioner for
that District is Andy Solis… I consider ALL of Collier County my District.
I'm very aware of the One Naples project and have spent considerable time speaking with parties on both sides. I've had many discussions with Buzz Victor and his staff who represent
the "Save Vanderbilt Beach" initiative and he and I recently had another Zoom video phone meeting.
Thank you for your viewpoint and for being an engaged citizen… I assure you I will continue to do the deepest dive into the details on both sides before making any decision.
…Rick
RICK LOCASTRO
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From: Art and Ellen Mueller <info@savevanderbiltbeach.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2021 7:15 AM
To: LoCastroRick <Rick.LoCastro@colliercountyfl.gov>
Subject: Vanderbilt neighborhood
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Dear Commissioner LoCastro:
I’m asking to to vote against One Naples. I must tell you how impressed I have been by your first month on the Board. Your attention to detail is quite remarkable. Picking up on matters
as seemingly small as the cost of golf carts is just terrific. Keep it up!
But I am not writing you today to simply rave about your service. 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. Stock is a good developer, generally recognizing the relationship
between what is good for the community with his need to make a profit. But your predecessor idolized him, and whatever he wanted she granted.
Because I generally think highly of Stock, I am astonished by what he is trying to do in District 2 at Vanderbilt Beach. I know it’s far from where I live, but I sure wouldn’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 location.
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,
Art and Ellen Mueller
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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