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Development is destroying Keys
I read The Citizen
this morning and just about fell out of my chair. [County Commissioner]
Dixie Spehar has come out of hiding after her triumphant Key West
Utility fiasco and is quoted as saying that she has appointed Jim
Cameron of Big Pine to the Planning Commission. She goes on to say that
he is an environmentalist who thinks outside the box. Even Cameron
disputed her claim that he was an environmentalist. One is left
wondering again: What have the Keys come to?
Every day, the
pro-development movement across the Keys gains momentum. From Key Largo,
Islamorada, Marathon, Big Pine and into Key West, the greed-mongers and
grifters continue their rape and pillage of these beautiful islands. We
have state Rep. Ken Sorensen, who wants to ease pollution caps.
Islamorada is angry at the state for not going along with their revised
vacation-rentals policy, in the process making Gov. Jeb Bush look like
an anti-development advocate. We have Marathon seeking more leniency
from the state, complaining about restrictions on development.
Hello, everybody! Have
we forgotten that these Keys are an Area of Critical State Concern?
These islands don't belong to you to trash and to loot at your own whim.
They don't belong to the state of Florida, which allows this trashing
and looting. These islands are a national treasure that belong to the
people of America, and [the islands] need protection. We are not giving
them that protection. As it stands now, we have the foxes in the
henhouse, where cronyism and corruption rule the day -- and that spells
disaster for paradise. Wake up before it's too late, or your goose that
laid the golden egg will stop laying those eggs.
Kathy Sullivan
Big Pine Key |
