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Dear Collier County Commissioners,
I am a resident of the Trieste condominium located within the Bay Colony Community of Pelican Bay and have been so for eleven years now. Quite candidly, I am surprised that the Trieste
was permitted to be built so close to Vanderbilt Beach Road when first constructed in the late 1990s. It does loom a big large over most of our neighbors. At least there is a large
set back from the road, extensive landscaping and a light at the intersection of Vanderbilt Drive and Vanderbilt Beach Road. And it does NOT mandate a bottleneck or constricted point.
Over these past eleven years of living at the Trieste I have witnessed a steady increase in the amount of pedestrian, bicycle and vehicular traffic along these two roads. Sidewalks
are narrow where they are present, which is not everywhere, and lumpy in places. Many families seek free parking outside the of county parking garage and push their strollers, pull
their wagons and coolers and hold the hands of their elderly and children while walking towards the beach. They walk for exercise, to visit a few small local restaurants, to visit
the beach and to view sunsets en masse. I encourage you to come and take a look around any day of the week at any time to see for yourself.
My primary concern and driver for my opposition to the development of One Naples as currently proposed is safety. This area is a narrow corridor with many people at all hours of the
day. It is also a drag strip late at night for fast car racers. It is also in a coastal high hazard area which portends the possible overload of traffic during evacuations. The addition
of 172 additional residential units as planned for One Naples will only exacerbate an already dangerous situation.
No one is guaranteed a view of the Gulf. We all know this. The Stock development as proposed seeks exemptions from far too many current permitting and growth management plan provisions,
issues obviously at hand when Stock purchased the parcels of land on which to build their One Naples dream. The issue is context. The drawing Stock Development is showing of One
Naples in the newspapers looking from south to north from the Bay Colony Contessa condominium to the LaPlaya Hotel and Beach Club is so very deceiving. This speaks volumes to me.
Deceptive behavior bodes poorly for a well-received development. Look around the immediate area where Stock wants to build their One Naples. It dwarfs the immediate community.
And a 35-foot tall wall abutting Vanderbilt Beach Road and Gulf Shore Drive with only a 15-foot setback is insulting.
Please understand that I would like to see these parcels of land developed in context with our neighbors in Naples Park, Gulf Shore Drive and the Regatta. I recognize that Stock builds
a good product. BUT I don’t believe that their current proposal is the solution. Please deny their current petition and ask that they go back to the drawing boards. Surely there
are many more creative and responsible options available to them to consider.
Your vote on March 1 will set a very important precedent with regard to growth management. I look to you for leadership to keep Naples a beautiful option to so many waterfront Florida
cities where massive concrete towers prevail. Naples deserves better.
Thank you for your work on behalf of the citizens of Naples, Florida. I am grateful to count myself amongst them.
Joyce Kerridge
240.463.3347
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hese 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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