The truth must be considered after the hearing, and the altered blueprint must be addressed. This frontage road was never mentioned by either ELS or Lee County at the hearing.ĮLS hides it, Lee County missed it, yet both documents were part of the hearing. It is on property owned by ELS, leading to and from the new development, but outside PLCC. The hearing examiner office supplied me with it by email, after the hearing concluded.Ī review of original blueprint shows language and lines that confirm a frontage road. The hearing examiner had an original copy, which I requested. This blueprint turned out to be an altered original blueprint, deliberately and deceptively redesigned by ELS to limit information. This blueprint was a revision of an original 1986 blueprint supplied by Lee County. I presented a previously submitted-to-the-county blueprint from ELS.
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Imposed limits of information to be input at this hearing, due to county and state regulations, but dangerously coupled with one-sided legal objections without the benefit of judges or juries, was in full view from the beginning. In the case before Lee County hearing examiner, true investigative reporting was missed and needed. This newspaper's “Neighbors battle development” report surrounding Pine Lakes Country Club (PLCC) leaves the term investigative local reporting a lost-in-the-past artform.Ī billion-dollar business, Equity Lifestyles Properties (ELS), with obvious big control of our governmental oversight, coupled with little availability for public input, makes for a fully out-of-balance system. John Piccolo, Estero Information missing at Pine Lakes hearing It is a conservative estimate that the lawn runoff is reduced by at least 50 percent. An added dividend from all the above is this method reduces runoff that affects fish or other wildlife in or on the lakes or canals. Thus avoiding the need for piping in the front. Another method is to add elbows from side downspouts so they exit onto the driveway. The water from the driveway already runs into the street. In the front I run similar piping to the street or a drain at the edge of the lawn. If there are no lakes near the back I have the gutters sloped to the front. At least the runoff from a drain so close to the water’s edge leaves very little water running across the lawn and picking up fertilizer. The edge method is to satisfy building codes and piping into a lake. If the back of the home sits next to a lake I run inexpensive piping just under the lawn either directly into the lake or to a drain at its edge. That leaves about four downspouts to handle all the water that will exit to the lawns. I always have a home with rain gutters all the way around the roof. One would be amazed how little lawn is visible from an aerial view of a typical homesite. If all the rain from our roofs, driveways, and streets went directly to the storm drains the lawns would be able to absorb normal rainfall without runoff. At least give government incentives to existing homeowners to make a few simple changes. My method for mitigation is simple and should be made mandatory for all new construction. The community lakes, when above their control or design level, send that extra water to the canal system too. The street water drains into storm drains that lead to the nearest lake or canal system if there are no lakes. However, homes, with their roofs and driveways, send more than the ground they cover into the streets, lakes, and retention ponds. If there were no homes covering the ground, the ground would absorb all the water from rain under normal rainfall.
I have had three homes in Florida over the years and mitigated runoff by at least 50 percent. I have seen au naturel in Arizona and it’s not pretty. Even to stop all lawn fertilizing and go au naturel. I am seeing numerous recommendations to solve lawn fertilizer runoff that adds to river and waterway pollution such as algae. Marianne St Johns, Naples Reducing waterway pollution On behalf of the children and families we serve, thank you! For more information about the event email or visit our website at to donate or check out our Facebook page. Please send a tax deductible donation to: Kiwanis Club of Northside Naples, POB 110333, Naples FL 34108 or donate via PayPal on our website.
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