To the editor:<\/p>\n
Lee County commissioners need more money.<\/p>\n
How about addressing what I believe to be root causes of this problem.<\/p>\n
Where is information that the commissioners greatly reduced impact fees in 2008 to appease developers?\u00a0<\/p>\n
Where is information to the fact that the commissioners have failed to raise the impact fees since?<\/p>\n
Where is the information that the commissioners developed a Growth Fund that was supposed to replace impact fees and that they have not funded the same for at last two years?\u00a0 <\/p>\n
And that the Growth Fund was\/is funded by current taxpayers as opposed to impact fees which were included in the purchase of every new home.<\/p>\n
I appreciate the fact that the incompetence of our commissioners is being hinted at.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
How much of the rapid uncontrolled development is due to the fact that more than 70% of political donations to the commissioners come from developers and real estate?<\/p>\n
Continued growth will be a way of life here but doing it in a sensible, environmentally manner seems to be beyond the grasp of our present quintet of county commissioners.<\/p>\n
Norman Cannon<\/p>\n
Fort Myers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: Lee County commissioners need more money. How about addressing what I believe to be root…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-207909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}