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Developers are controlling the county
EDITOR:
The courageous disclosures made by former Monroe County
Planning Commissioner Juilio Margalli specifically identified the
oppressive and abusive nature of a government fraught with tactics of
intimidation, which are designed to silence and destroy those citizens
with which they disagree.
A government-sponsored attack authored by the Monroe County Commission
was accommodatingly published in many of our newspapers targeting
individual residents who dared to make a presentation for them, with
some scientifically advanced ideas that they did not concur with.
These ideas were set forth in Monroe County's Livable CommuniKeys
program. This program was a reasonable and environmentally sound
resolution, designed to offset some of the slash-and-burn strategies
symbiotically enjoyed by our commission and developers.
The
affordable-housing scam has become the wrench that fits each nut. It
provides cover to the politicians while signaling to the developers and
county administrator that environmental and quality-of-life issues can
virtually be ignored. The perpetration of this fraud continues as the
price of homes have naturally risen to reach market value.
The County Commission has voted to authorize itself the power to
terminate any planning commissioner it so desires for no reason.
Despotic approaches toward governance are tawdry and illegal.
Our islands cannot be developed to the brink of extinction while the
government hastily proceeds to compress a new populace into a string of
densely crowded condominiums along the only road entering and exiting
Monroe County. Seeking redress, I petition Gov. Jeb Bush to grant us
relief and protection from any further conduct initiated by the members
of this commission, which violates our constitutional rights and civil
liberties.
At no previous time in our history has the selection of a
replacement county commissioner been so critical to our survival in the
Florida Keys. Decisions made on future development during the next six
months will last in perpetuity.
Dwight James
Key Largo |
