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After a long, contentious hearing on the proposal, the Collier Planning Commission continued it for more discussion and debate in two weeks.
Lennar's proposal to build up to 400 apartments in eastern Collier County is advancing, with thumbs up from Collier County Planning Commission.
While the amendments have been years in the making and have garnered support from a majority of landowners and environmental groups, they still face organized opposition, namely from The Conservancy of Southwest Florida, which has raised a multitude of concerns about the revisions. One of the Conservancy's biggest concerns is that the changes won't go far enough to steer development away from primary — or essential — habitat for panthers, in part due to the old data the county uses to determine where it's located. "We are very disappointed in the decision by the Planning Commissio...
Developer, environmental groups work out compromises over rural villages Naples Daily News Between sometimes contentious and hours-long public meetings, developers planning rural villages in eastern Collier County and a handful of environmental groups negotiated further protections for land and wildlife. Collier Enterprises is moving plans through the county for three villages in environmentally sensitive lands in the county's 185,000-acre Rural Land Stewardship Area. Plans for the villages — Rivergrass, Longwater and Bellmar — spurred debate from groups concerned the development would ...
Last-minute changes, interpretations and emotions are at the center of numerous projects from one of the most monumental weeks in Collier development history. For months and longer, government officials, citizens and advisory committees had all been scrutinizing plans for the Vanderbilt Beach area's One Naples luxury towers that County Commissioner Penny Taylor had termed as "the most controversial (issue) in many, many years." But much of that effort and a big part of the county staff's planned presentation at Monday's public hearing became largely worthless when Stock Development blin...