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Backup Documents 04/16/2003 WBOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS WORKSHOP M TING SANTA BARBARA/ LOGAN BOULEVARD APRIL 16, 2003 Santa BarbarafLognn Boulevard Workshop Wednesday, April 16, 9 a.m. Board of County Commissioners Chambers AGENDA' Il. III. IV. V. Welcome and Introductions Presentation by Transportation PIanning D~aRmenttTransportation Engineering &'Construction Management Department Staff Questions and Comments from Board of County Commissioners Questions and Comments from Public Conclusion February 4, 2003 Naples Daily News 1075 Central Avenue Naples, FL 34102 Re: Notice of Board Workshop - Santa Alignment Dear Georgia: Please advertise the April 13, 2003, and kindly Publication, in duplicate, involved to this office. Thank you. Sincerely, Ellie Hoffman, Deputy Purchase Order #200213 of County Commissioners Barbara/Livingston Road enclosed notice on Sunday, send the Affidavit of together with charges Clerk NOTICE OF BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS WORKSHOP COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA Tuesday, April 15, 2003 9:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon Notice is hereby given that the Collier County Board of County Commissioners will hold Workshop on TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 2003 at 9:00 A.M., in the Board of County Commissioners Boardroom at the Collier County Government Complex, W. Harmon Turner Building, 3rd Floor, 3301 East Tamiami Trail, Naples, Florida. The Workshop will include, but may not be limited to, the following: ~ Santa Barbara-Livingston Road Alignment Workshop The meeting is open to the public. Any person who decides to appeal a decision of this Board will need a record of the proceedings pertaining thereto, and therefore may need to ensure that a verbatim record of the proceedings is made, which record includes the testimony and evidence upon which the appeal is to be based. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA Tom Henning, Chairman DWIGHT E. BROCK, CLERK By:/s/Maureen Kenyon Deputy Clerk Ellie J. Hoffman To: Subject: legals@naplesnews.com Santa Barbara Livingston Alignment Workshop Hello Georgia, Kindly advertise the above referenced notice as per the attachment. Thanks, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara Livingston Align.,. Livingston Align... Ellie J. Hoffman From: Sent: To: Subject: System Administrator [postmaster@naplesnews.com] Tuesday, February 04, 2003 11:33 AM Ellie J. Hoffman Delivered: Santa Barbara Livingston Alignment Workshop Sang Barba~ Living~on Align... <<Santa Barbara Livingston Alignment Workshop>> Your message To: legals@naplesnews.com Subject: Santa Barbara Livingston Alignment Workshop Sent: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 11:40:34 -0500 was delivered to the following recipient(s): legals on Tue, 4 Feb 2003 11:32:56 -0500 Santa Barbara Livingston Alignment Workshop Page 1 of 1 Ellie J. Hoffman From: legals [legals@naplesnews.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 1:58 PM To: Ellie J. Hoffman Subject: RE: Santa Barbara Livingston Alignment Workshop april 13 ok georgia ..... Original Message ..... From: Ellie 3. Hoffman [mailto:Ellie. Hoffman@clerk.collier.fl.us] Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 11:41 AM To: legals@naplesnews.com Subject: Santa Barbara Livingston Alignment Workshop Hello Georgia, Kindly advertise the above referenced notice as per the attachment. Thanks, Ellie <<Santa Barbara Livingston Alignment.doc>> <<Santa Barbara Livingston A gnment Workshop.doc>> 2/4/2003 Patricia L. Mor~lan To: Subject: Georgia (E-mail) REVISED Advertising: BCC/Santa Barbara-Livingston Rd. Alignment Workshop eorgia, title County :Manager's office just notifieaC us that there b a change in the advertising, schecfufecf to run on Sunday, ,~pri£13. ~ttachecf is the new notice that replaces the ofdone, qliey have now scheaCufeaC this wor~hopfor two days. ~Fease fet me ~now if I shouFd '7(J££" the ofdaaCor if you can just revise it. 'I~an~, Santa Barbara Livingston Align... NOTICE OF BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS WORKSHOP COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA Tuesday, April 15, 2003 and Wednesday, April 16, 2003 Beginning at 9:00 a.m. Notice is hereby given that the Collier County Board of County Commissioners will hold Workshop on TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 2003 and WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 2003, beginning at 9:00 A.M., in the Board of County Commissioners Boardroom at the Collier County Government Complex, W. Harmon Turner Building, 3rd Floor, 3301 East Tamiami Trail, Naples, Florida. The Workshop will include, but may not be limited to, the following: n Santa Barbara-Livingston Road Alignment Workshop The meeting is open to the public. Any person who decides to appeal a decision of this Board will need a record of the proceedings pertaining thereto, and therefore may need to ensure that a verbatim record of the proceedings is made, which record includes the testimony and evidence upon which the appeal is to be based. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA Tom Henning, Chairman DWIGHT E. BROCK, CLERK By:/si Maureen Kenyon Deputy Clerk Patricia L. Morgan From: Sent: To: Subject: postmaster@clerk.collier.fi.us Thursday, March 06, 2003 8:50 AM Patricia L. Morgan Delivery Status Notification (Relay) A'Vl'92227.txt REVISED vertising: BCC/SanlTh/~/s an automatica[[y aenerateg ~De£ivery Status 5~Coti~catiorL ffbur message fins ~een successfulTy re[ayea~ to the fo£[owina recipients, 6ut t~ requestec[ aCe£i~ery status notifications may not ~e ~teneratec[ by tf~e destination. fegafs~nap[esnews, corn Patricia L. Mor~lan From: Sent: To: Subject: System Administrator [postmaster@naplesnews.com] Thursday, March 06, 2003 8:40 AM Patricia L. Morgan Delivered: REVISED Advertising: BCC/Santa Barbara-Livingston Rd. Alignment Workshop REVISED vertising: BCC/Sanl < <RBVISB~O Advertising: BCC/Santa ~Bar6ara-£ivingston Rd. Alignment Workshop >> °four ~ng s s a g e To: qeorgi~ Su6ject: RB VISBD Ad~,enising: ~CC/Santa ~Bar6ara-£ivingston Pfl. Alignment workshop Sent: Thu, 6 9ffar 2003 08:49:36 -0500 was delivered to the following recipient(s): legals on Thu, 6 9ffar 2003 08:39:$0 -0500 REVISED Advertising: BCC/Santa Barbara-Livingston Rd. Alignment Workshop Page 1 of 1 Patricia L. Morgan From: legals [legals@naplesnews.com] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 11:22 AM To: Patricia L. Morgan Subject: RE: REVISED Advertising: BCC/Santa Barbara-Livingston Rd. Alignment I'll re-type it is on ad # 96985 do not send another e-mail thanks georgia ..... Original Message ..... From: Patricia L. Morgan [mailto:Patricia. Morgan@clerk.collier.fl.us] ~ent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 8:50 AM To: Georgia (E-mail) Subject: REVISED Advertising: BCC/Santa Barbara-Livingston Rd. Alignment Workshop qeorgia, Cllie County 514anager's office just notified us that there is a change in the advertising, schedu[ed to run on Sunday, Apff[13. Attached is the new notice that rep[aces the o~ one. qTiey have now schedu[edthis workshop for two days. Mease [et me know if I shou~ 'KIr. r." the oMadorif you can just revise it. Thanks, Trish <<santa Barbara Livingston Alignment Workshop. doc>> 3/6/2003 NapLes Daily Ne~s Naples, FL 34102 Affidavit of Publication Naples Daily News BOARD OF COUNTY CONM[SSIONERS CHERI LEFARA PO BOX 415016 NAPLES FL 54101-5016 REFERENCE: 001230 58~8 NOTICE OF BOARD OF C State of Florida County of Collier Before the undersigned authority, personally appeared B. Lamb, who on oath says that she serves as Assistant Corporate Secretary of the Naples Daily Ne~s, a daily newspaper published at Naples, in Collier County, FLorida: that the attached copy of advertising w~s published in said newspaper on dates listed. Affiant further says that the said Naples Daily News is a newspaper published at Naples, in said Collier County, FLorida, and that the said newspaper has heretofore been continuously published in said Collier County, FLorida, each day and has be~n enter~ as second class mail matter at the post office in Naples, in said Collier County, FLorida, for a peric~l of t year next preceding the first publication of the attached copy of advertisement; and affiant further says that she has neither paid nor promised any person, firm or corporation any discount, rebate, commission or refuted for the purpose of securi~ this advertisement for pubLiction in the said newspaper. PUBLISHED ON: AD SPACE: 66.000 INCH FILED ON: 0/+/I ~/05 Signature of Affiant Sworn to and ~ubscribed Personally k;~own by me My Commissio~ DD056336 ,c~m~__~lr_~d~.- Expires September 11.2005 NOTICE OF ~ ~ BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS WORKSHOP COLLIEI~ COUNTY, FLORIDA Tuesdav. A~rl115, 2003 i and 99ednesday, April 16,2003 Beginning af 9.'00 A.M. Notice I~ hereby given that the Colller County Board of CoUntY Com- missioners will hold Workshop on TUES- DAY, APRil 15~ 2003 and WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 2003, beglnnlng at 9:00 A.M.., In the Board of Coum¥ Commissioners Board. room at the Collier Court. tv Government _c.~'nglex. · W. Harmon Turner ~ulldlng, 3rd Floor, 3301 East .Tamlaml Trail Nal~les, Florida. Th~ w~:wLU In..cl~de but ~ ,Santa mrl3ara- LIvIngst~. _. Road Alignment Warksho~ The meeting Is open t¢ the public. Any person who decid- es to appeal a decision of this Board will need .a record of the proceea- Ings pertaining thereto, and therefore may need to ensure that a verba. tim record at the pro. ceedlflgs Is ~mcle, whiter r~cord Includes ~e. monv and evlaenc~ upon which the appea Is to be based. COLLIER COUNTY. FLOR~A Tom Harming. Chairman DWiGHTE. BROCK, CLERK By: /s/ Maureen Ken-I Yon, Deputy Clerl<. . J~J~..l113 PO Box 770273~ FL 34107-0273 The HeO*o~Gan P~annmg Organ~ (~) ~ 4 ~ ~ 4.5, ~: To ~ ~ I~ ~ ~ ~; To ~ ~ i~~ ~ ~A~ ~ ~ ~~a ~I~ I-7S ~ Controlled growth committees would not allow a residential country road to be rebuilt into a 6 lane highway. Developers would build a 6 lane highway taming a residential country road into a commercial corridor. How will SB/L resemble other 6 lane roads? After 6 lanes are installed on SB/L, the family homes on SB/L will slowly disappear. The residences will become income rentals, slowly depreciating until the neighborhoods around them would desire and allow commercial uses hoping they might look better. (Some are unhappy with some of the rental units on the E. side of SB today.) So, the zoning will change up and down SB/L and the 600' + or - depth of properties which line our neighborhoods will change from residential to commercial properties changing forever the landscape of our neighborhoods. What kind of commercial entities will line SB/L.? Will these changes depreciate our neighborhoods? Our residentially lined 4 lane Santa Barbara / Logan is a BEAUTIFUL residential country road lined with beautiful pine trees and homes, which makes all our properties next to them beautiful. Would commercial property do the same? Show us a 6 lane highway where the homeowners still live. We have signed resolutions from the majority of our property owners on SB/L stating they will not sell their properties to Collier County for the purpose of expanding our roads. The county must exercise eminent domain to take this land fi.om there owners for the purpose of creating a highway equal to or larger than 175 (4 lanes which will soon have exits at both Pine Ridge and GG Parkway), Airport Pulling, Goodlette, most of US 41, 951, and Livingston Rd. We have petitioned the residences of Collier County and have 2500 signatures of people who do not want our road increased to 6 lanes. How many signatures will it take to stop this? The safety of our children is the most important reason most of us are here. We have approximately 90 bus stops on SB/L each school day. Soon the 4 year old children will be joining the ranks of the little ones climbing aboard the big yellow school buses. The traffic on our tree lined street will not change by adding more thru travel lanes because the traffic still has to stop and stay behind the school buses during these peak use periods of time associated with school and work travel. Six lanes will never change these traffic backups, but a couple more mm lanes southbound at GG Parkway will help. Please vote to keep SB/L a residential country road in the middle of all this growth. Wanda Klopf 5960 Star Grass Lane Resolution From The Homeowners On Logan/Santa Barbara To The Collier County Commissioners Whereas we, the homeowners, live where we do by choice and not by circumstance and: Whereas we feel that any reduction of our property would adversely affect our lives, our tranquility and our way of life and: Whereas attempts to create a high-speed limited access corridor through our residential neighborhood will derogate our safety and the safety of our children and: Whereas any of the proposed changes to the existing road will move traffic closer to our homes increasing stress levels to us due to noise and activity: Be it therefore RESOLVED that we, the property owners along the Logan/Santa Barbara corridor will refuse to sell, give or in any way voluntarily convey any of our property to Collier County for the purpose of expanding the roadway. Resolution From The Homeowners On Logan/Santa Barbara To The Collier County Commissioners Whereas we, the homeowners, live where we do by choice and not by circumstance and: Whereas we feel that any reduction of our property would adversely affect our lives, our tranquility and our way of life and: Whereas attempts to create a high-speed limited access corridor through our residential neighborhood will derogate our safety and the safety of our children and: Whereas any of the proposed changes to the existing road will move traffic closer to our homes increasing stress levels to us due to noise and activiW: Be it therefore RESOLVED that we, the property owners along the Logan/Santa Barbara corridor will refuse to sell, give or in any way voluntarily convey any of our property to Collier County for the purpose of expanding the roadway. Resolution From The Homeowners On Logan/Santa Barbara To The Collier County Commissioners Whereas we, the homeowners, live where we do by choice and not by circumstance and: Whereas we feel that any reduction of our property would adversely affect our lives, our tranquility and our way of life and: Whereas attempts to create a high-speed limited access corridor through our residential neighborhood will derogate our safety and the safety of our children and: Whereas any of the proposed changes to the existing road will move traffic closer to our homes increasing stress levels to us due to noise and activity: Be it therefore RESOLVED that we, the property owners along the Logan/Santa Barbara corridor will refuse to sell, give or in any way voluntarily convey any of our property to Collier County for the purpose of expanding the roadway. Resolution From The Homeowners On Logan/Santa Barbara To The Collier County Commissioners Whereas we, the homeowners, live where we do by choice and not by circumstance and: Whereas we feel that any reduction of our property would adversely affect our lives, our tranquility and our way of life and: Whereas attempts to create a high-speed limited access corridor through our residential neighborhood will derogate our safety and the safety of our children and: Whereas any of the proposed changes to the existing road will move traffic closer to our homes increasing stress levels to us due to noise and activity: Be it therefore RESOLVED that we, the property owners along the Logan/Santa Barbara corridor will refuse to sell, give or in any way voluntarily convey any of our property to Collier County for the purpose of expanding the roadway. Resolution From The Homeowners On Logan/Santa Barbara To The Collier County Commissioners Whereas we, the homeowners, live where we do by choice and not by circumstance and: Whereas we feel that any reduction of our property would adversely affect our lives, our tranquility and our way of life and: Whereas attempts to create a high-speed limited access corridor through our residential neighborhood will derogate our safety and the safety of our children and: Whereas any of the proposed changes to the existing road will move traffic closer to our homes increasing stress levels to us due to noise and activity: Be it therefore RESOLVED that we, the property owners along the Logan/Santa Barbara corridor will refuse to sell, give or in any way voluntarily convey any of our property to Collier County for the purpose of expanding the roadway. Resolution From The Homeowners On Logan/Santa Barbara To The Collier County Commissioners Whereas we, the homeowners, live where we do by choice and not by circumstance and: Whereas we feel that any reduction of our property would adversely affect our lives, our tranquility and our way of life and: Whereas attempts to create a high-speed limited access corridor through our residential neighborhood will derogate our safety and the safety of our children and: Whereas any of the proposed changes to the existing road will move traffic closer to our homes increasing stress levels to us due to noise and activity: Be it therefore RESOLVED that we, the property owners along the Logan/Santa Barbara corridor will refuse to sell, give or in any way voluntarily convey any of our property to Collier County for the purpose of expanding the roadway. Resolution From The Hom~°wners On Log.an/Santa Barbara To The Collier COunty Commismoners Whereas we, the homeowners, live where we do by choice and not by circumstance and: Whereas we feel that any reduction of our property would adversely affect our lives, our tranquility and our way of life and: Whereas attempts to create a high-speed limited access corridor through our residential neighborhood will derogate our safety and the safety of our children and: Whereas any of the proposed changes to the existing road will move traffic closer to our homes increasing stress levels to us due to noise and activity: Be it therefore RESOLVED that we, the property owners along the Logan/Santa Barbara corridor will refuse to sell, give or in any way voluntarily convey any of our property to Collier County for the purpose of expanding the roadway. Resolution From The Homeowners On Logan/Santa Barbara To The Collier County Commissioners Whereas we, the homeowners, live where we do by choice and not by circumstance and: Whereas we feel that any reduction of our property would adversely affect our lives, our tranquility and our way of life and: Whereas attempts to create a high-speed limited access corridor through our residential neighborhood will derogate our safety and the safety of our children and: Whereas any of the proposed changes to the existing road will move traffic closer to our homes increasing stress levels to us due to noise and activity: Be it therefore RESOLVED that we, the property owners along the Logan/Santa Barbara corridor will refuse to sell, give or in any way voluntarily convey any of our property to Collier County for the purpose of expanding the roadway. Resolution From The Homeowners On Logan/Santa Barbara To The Collier County Commissioners Whereas we, the homeowners, live where we do by choice and not by circumstance and: Whereas we feel that any reduction of our property would adversely affect our lives, our tranquility and our way of life and: Whereas attempts to create a high-speed limited access corridor through our residential neighborhood will derogate our safety and the safety of our children and: Whereas any of the proposed changes to the existing road will move traffic closer to our homes increasing stress levels to us due to noise and activity: Be it therefore RESOLVED that we, the property owners along the Logan/Santa Barbara corridor will refuse to sell, give or in any way voluntarily convey any of our property to Collier County for the purpose of expanding the r~adway. Resolution From The Homeowners On Logan/Santa Barbara To The Collier County Commissioners Whereas we, the homeowners, live where we do by choice and not by circumstance and: Whereas we feel that any reduction of our property would adversely affect our lives, our tranquility and our way of life and: Whereas attempts to create a high-speed limited access corridor through our residential neighborhood will derogate our safety and the safety of our children and: Whereas any of the proposed changes to the existing road will move traffic closer to our homes increasing stress levels to us due to noise and activity: Be it therefore RESOLVED that we, the property owners along the Logan/Santa Barbara corridor will refuse to sell, give or in any way voluntarily convey any of our property to Collier County for the purpose of expanding the roadway. Resolution From The Homeowners On Logan/Santa Barbara To The Collier County Commissioners Whereas we, the homeowners, live where we do by choice and not by circumstance and: Whereas we feel that any reduction of our property would adversely affect our lives, our tranquility and our way of life and: Whereas attempts to create a high-speed limited access corridor through our residential neighborhood will derogate our safety and the safety of our children and: Whereas any of the proposed changes to the existing road will move traffic closer to our homes increasing stress levels to us due to noise and activity: Be it therefore RESOLVED that we, the property owners along the Logan/Santa Barbara corridor will refuse to sell, give or in any way voluntarily convey any of our property to Collier County for the purpose of expanding the roadway. Resolution From The Homeowners On Logan/Santa Barbara To The Collier County Commissioners Whereas we, the homeowners, live where we do by choice and not by circumstance and: Whereas we feel that any reduction of our property would adversely affect our lives, our tranquility and our way of life and: Whereas attempts to create a high-speed limited access corridor through our residential neighborhood will derogate our safety and the safety of our children and: Whereas any of the proposed changes to the existing road will move traffic closer to our homes increasing stress levels to us due to noise and activity: Be it therefore RESOLVED that we, the property owners along the Logan/Santa. Barbara corridor will refuse to sell, give or in any way voluntarily convey any of our property to Collier County for the purpose of eXpanding the roadway. ~D Resolution From The Homeowners On Logan/~anta Barbara To The Collier County Commissioners Whereas we, the homeowners, live where we do by choice and not by circumstance and: Whereas we feel that any reduction of our property would adversely affect our lives, our tranquility and our way of life and: Whereas attempts to create a high-speed limited access corridor through our residential neighborhood will derogate our safety and the safety of our children and: Whereas any of the proposed changes to the existing road will move traffic closer to our homes increasing stress levels to us due to noise and activity: Be it therefore RESOLVED that we, the property owners along the Logan/Santa Barbara corridor will refuse to sell, give or in any way voluntarily convey any of our property to Collier County for the purpose of expanding the .roadway. Resolution From The Homeowners On Logan/Santa Barbara To The Collier County Commissioners Whereas we, the homeowners, live where we do by choice and not by circumstance and: Whereas we feel that any reduction of our property would adversely affect our lives, our tranquility and our way of life and: Whereas attempts to create a high-speed limited access corridor through our residential neighborhood will derogate our safety and the safety of our children and: Whereas any of the proposed changes to the existing road will move traffic closer to our homes increasing stress levels to us due to noise and activity: Be it therefore RESOLVED that we, the property owners along the Logan/Santa Barbara corridor will refuse to sell, give or in any way voluntarily convey any of our property to Collier County for the purpose of expanding the roadway. Resolution From The Homeowners On Logan/Santa Barbara To The Collier County Commissioners Whereas we, the homeowners, live where we do by choice and not by circumstance and: Whereas we feel that any reduction of our property would adversely affect our lives, our tranquility and our way of life and: Whereas attempts to create a high-speed limited access corridor through our residential neighborhood will derogate our safety and the safety of our children and: Whereas any of the proposed changes to the existing road will move traffic closer to our homes increasing stress levels to us due to noise and activity: Be it therefore RESOLVED that we, the property owners along the Logan/Santa Barbara corridor will refuse to sell, give or in any way voluntarily convey any of our property to Collier County for the purpose of expanding the roadway.. ~, Resolution From The Homeowners On Logan/Santa Barbara To The Collier County Commissioners Whereas we, the homeowners, live where we do by choice and not by circumstance and: Whereas we feel that any reduction of our property would adversely affect our lives, our tranquility and our way of life and: Whereas attempts to create a high-speed limited access corridor through our residential neighborhood will derogate our safety and the safety of our children and: Whereas any of the proposed changes to the existing road will move traffic closer to our homes increasing stress levels to us due to noise and activity: Be it therefore RESOLVED that we, the property owners along the Logan/Santa Barbara corridor will refuse to sell, give or in any way voluntarily convey any of our property to Collier County for the purpose of expanding the roadway. .,',,-/, :¢4v. tz~.t, rr,., .. ~ ..,. ,, ...:, ./ . :,>--' ~ -'-x <' < >.. ,. ..,-.f..~ ,~:/ / x/,.. ,4./, __..' b, .. . ...-..- . ~r -.,, <- ,q / / -- ~"~. . ,' ').<L'(; ("(, (.ohs c..~,,,:..-,r--, ,.,x~ u,'-., ~',.-'*-,,s~.~. < ~( __"": ~,,-- .p- :/ jO' r,o~.~..,~,., From The Homeowners B~bara To The Collier County Commissioners Whereas we, the homeowners, live where we do By choice and not by circumstance and: Whereas we feel that any reduction of our property would adYer~e[y affect our lives, our tranquility and our way of life and: Whereas attemplx~ to.create a high-speed limited access corridor through our residential neighborhood will aerogute our sm~j and the safety of our cbJ!dren and: Whereas any of the proposed changes to thc existing road will move traffic closer to o'~ur homes increasing stress levels to us due to noise and activity: Be it therefore RESOINIgD that we, *.he property owners along the Logan/Santa Barbara corridor will refum: [o sell, give or ~ may way -'~'"'*°'4h'~ ,-~,,,~,ey ..... any of_. nut_ pro~rty to Collier CauntvZor the p?rpo, se of expanding the ro.a~dwa~. I have a question for the Collier County Commissioners. Over six months ago the Logan/Santa Barbara Civic Association expended an enormous amount of time and energy in an attempt to convey to the commissioners how the people who are directly impacted by the proposed changes being contemplated to Logan/Santa Barbara feel. The information passed was accomplished by a four-hour presentation to the Metropolitan Planning Organization. That body was partially made up of the members of the Collier County Commissioners. There was never any attempt made on the part of either the Metropolitan Planning Organization or the Collier County Commissioners to reciprocate and feed back any information to the Logan/Santa Barbara Civic Association. Now we are tasked with the prospect of repeating all of that effort in another duplicate presentation to the Board of Commissioners as if it were virgin information, that is to say, information that is reaching the Board for the first time. What happened to the four-hour presentation that was given to the Metropolitan Planning Organization in October? Was it summarily discarded? The point has been repeatedly made that the Transportation Department has attempted to create a smoke screen clouding the issue by hosting a series of Community Involvement meetings ostensibly to gage the feelings and wishes of the community. The Community Involvement Team has consisted of from eight to eleven people who were picked by the Transportation Department. It is still unknown how they were picked and how the Transportation Department can justify that tiny number as being representative of the over 1500 families who will be directly impacted by any changes, good or bad, that will be made to the road in question. That number is not statistically valid nor is the manner of choosing the representative sample. The suffocation and tabling of the information presented to the Metropolitan Planning Organization in October with the concomitant necessity of repeating it in another meeting smacks of the same type of smoke screen the Department of Transportation has been utilizing in an effort to disregard the wishes of the people and to press on with their own agenda. Doesn't it strike you as strange that the people, the citizenry, are placed in the position of trying to convince the County Commissioners that the enormous expense they are contemplating for the road is unneeded, unwanted and unnecessary? In most communities the governing bodies are mandated to guard the collective purse strings of the populace and not the other way around. This is just another example of the tail wagging the dog in Collier County. I would ask that the Collier County Commissioners pay more attention to the mandate that they are tasked with, that is, to represent the people and not special interest groups. Listen to the repeated pleas of your constituency manifested in the various forms of actual communication received by you and suppress preconceived ideas you may have as to how the community is to live and function. The wishes of the people living on and about Logan/Santa Barbara can be summed up into four simple statements. (1) Do not six lane the road (2) Lower the speed limits (3) Fix the intersection of Santa Barbara and Golden Gate Parkway (4) Bring Santa Barbara up to the standards needed to make it part of the greater Naples/Collier County complex.