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Dear Commissioner LoCastro:
In a few days, you and other commissioners will be deciding on issues about One Naples. I am deeply concerned about its proposed marina.
How will up to 99 boat slips and a fuel dock affect water quality of Vanderbilt Lagoon? Water quality at this lagoon has been studied by Collier County and the Conservancy of Southwest
Florida for years. The lagoon is polluted and lacks the amount of dissolved oxygen many organisms need to survive. It can’t flush the pollutants because its southern flow to Clam Pass
was blocked by earlier development. This Lagoon is the southern termination of the Wiggins Pass Estuary.
The Conservancy’s 2005 Estuaries Report Card for the water quality of Wiggins Pass Estuary was C-. In 2017, the Report Card for its water quality was D-.
Ironically, the Cocohatchee River, part of the Wiggins Pass Estuary, is designated by the State of Florida as Outstanding Florida Water. This designation guarantees the water will have
special heightened protection from pollution.
The Army Corps of Engineers determined that Wiggins Pass Estuary warrants manatee protection. Management and protection for the manatees in Collier County are set forth in section 5.05.02
of the Land Development Code, titled “Marinas.” Section C of 5.05.02 describes a rating system to evaluate proposed marina facilities. The purpose of the marina site rating system
is to determine maximum wet slip densities to improve existing manatee protection. In evaluating a parcel for a potential boat facility, a minimum sphere of influence for the boat
traffic must be designated.
As proposed, One Naples marina would exasperate pollution of the Vanderbilt Lagoon and create unfavorable conditions for manatees. Building this marina is wrong.
Sincerely,
Susan L. Snyder
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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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