Agenda 01/15/2008 Item # 6F
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Agenda Item No. 6F
January 15, 2008
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COllIER COUNTY MANAGER'S OFFICE
3301 East Tamiami Trail' Naples, Florida 34111. (239) 774-8383 . FAX (239) 774-4010
January 3, 2008
Robert and Theresa Parent
77021&' Street NW
Naples, FL 34120
Re: Public Petition Request to Discuss Vanderbilt Beach Road Extension
Dear Mr. and Mrs, Parent:
Please be advised that you are scheduled to appear before the Collier County Board of
Commissioners at the meeting of January 15, 2008, regarding the above referenced
subject.
Your petition to the Board of County Commissioners will be limited to ten minutes.
Please be advised that the Board will take no action on your petition at this meeting.
However, your petition may be placed on a future agenda for consideration at the
Board's discretion. Therefore, your petition to the Board should be to advise them of
your concem and the need for action by the Board at a future meeting.
The meeting will begin at 9:00 a.m. in the Board's Chambers on the Third Floor of the W,
Harmon Tumer Building (Building "F") of the government complex. Please arrange to be
present at this meeting and to respond to inquiries by Board members.
If you require any further information or assistance, please do not hesitate to contact this
office.
Sincerely,
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James V, Mudd-r
County Manager
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cc: David Weigel, County Atlomey
Norman Feder, Transportation Services Administrator
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Agenda Item No. 6F
January 15, 2008
Page 2 of 3
Reouest to Soeak under Public Petition
Please print
RECEIVED
OFFICE OF THE COUNTY MANAGER
Name: ROBERT AND THERESA PARENT
Address: 770 21sT ST NW NAPLES, FL 34120
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ACTION
Phone: 239 253-7700 ROBERT 253.7701 THERESA
Date of the Board Meetino YOU wish to soeak: JANUARY 15, 2008
Please exolain in detail the reason YOU are reauestino to soeak (attach additional
oaoe if necessary):
DOCUMENTS ATTACHED
EXHIBIT A - LETTER REQUESTING MEETING
EXHIBIT B - COUNTY MAPS SHOWI" DISTANCES FROM HOMES TO
ROW OF VBRX
EXHIBIT C . COUNTY MAPS SHOWING PROPERTIES BOUGHT BY COUNTY
IN REFERNCE TO OUR PROPERTY
EXHIBIT D - COUNTY LETTER FROM JOE QUINTY INDICATING THE
TAKING OF OUR PROPERTY
EXHIBIT E - MR. OLIVERA BUY OUT
EXHIBIT F -ORIGINAL PLANS FILED WITH COUNTY ON 7-24-1997 WITH
DETACHED FUTURE GARAGE
Please exolain in detai/the action you are askino the Commission to take (attach
additional oaoe if necessary):
The action we are asking of you The Commissioners is to
have a complete buyout of our two homes with all the same
consideration that other homes have been taken in this project.
The compensation we are requesting is to be able to rebuild
these two identical homes in the same atmosphere we have
today. Other buyouts: Olivera Residence on 590 12th Ave N.W.
EXHmIT A
Agenda Item r-Jo. 6F
January 15, 20G8
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Dear County Commissioners,
December 29, 2007
I'm requesting to speak before the commissioners due to the VanderbiJt Beach
Road Extension which will pass to the north side of our two homes. It will run the whole
660' length of our property, We bought the property inl993 and built in 1997 before the
concept of the road existed. The main house is 3,450s.f.under air with a total of
4,250s.f.under roof. This house was designed with a detached garage to be 30' from the
north property line. Plans certified from the county are enclosed. The plans are marked
received 7/24/97 and page A-7 indicates this future structure. We haven't done this yet
due to two reasons.
First, we built a rear guest house in 2002 for my mother and her husband Bob, my
children's grandfather, to live. We moved them down here from Rhode Island due to
health reasons. Bob has only thirty percent lung capacity and with the road construction's
dust and traffic fumes they will not be able to enjoy the outdoors they love or quality of
life they deserve. This house is 1,150s.f.under air and total of I,700s.funder roof.
Second reason we haven't built the garage in the last few years is due to the road
that was put on our side of the canal to save two golf courses and $72,000,000,00 of the
counties money. $92,000,000.00 golf course estimate would cost and $52,000,000.00 the
county estimates to purchase land, the average would be $72,000,000.00 saved by the
county. The garage was going to have a bonus room above it for my son to stay when he
goes to college in a few years.
Both these homes were designed and physically built by us where we planned to
pass them down to our two children which makes it so hard for us to let them go, but we
are going to lose our total quality of life and can't stay in this situation. We love the dead
end road feeling knowing the safety of our children and animals are intact, the quietness
and tranquility, the abundant of wild life, the stars from no light pollution, the quietness
of no trucks, cars and motorcycles, the air quality, being able to walk down the end of the
road to drop a line in the canal to go fishing all the things our future grandchildren and us
will miss. Do you remember in the old days where people would say I live in the house
my grandfather built and lived, well that was our dream but that won't happen now
because we will be on a corner lot due to this road location.
The main house garage will be approx. 77' from the ROWand the guest house
will be approx. 87' from the ROWand the well of the guess house will be 77'. This is
way too close to the new road for any body to live with any quality of life and with the
plans we had before your road comes through.
Attached is an E-mail from Joe Quinta Principal Planner Collier County
Transportation Planning dated 4/25/06 at the beginning of the road process stating that
the county would be interested in buying us out due to quote ("difficulty in buffering
your home") in other words the road is to close for your quality oflife that exists today. If
the road was on the other side of the canal our lives wouldn't be in turmoil at this time
and I wouldn't be asking you to take our homes and more important to ruin our dreams
we planned more than a decade ago and decades to come.
Sincerely,
Robert and Theresa Parent