Originally Posted by Advogado

jrandall, do you work for the Developer or one of his suppliers?

Your post is a regurgitation of the BS being spewed by the Developer through his newspaper (and through his suppliers when he apparently had them pack the last County Commission meeting-- keeping out the public by filling up the parking lot with their heavy equipment). It is BS that was rejected by voters in the last election by a 2 to 1 margin when they elected the EMS Team (Estep, Miller, and Search)--tossing out three of the Developer's five puppet Commissioners in an effort to clean up the cesspool that was the County Commission.

Unfortunately, for reasons that are not clear, the E member of the EMS team is not fulfilling his campaign promise to roll back the 25% property tax increase and compensate for the lost revenue by requiring the Developer to pay for his own county infrastructure. He is handing the Developer millions of dollars, at taxpayer expense, just by delaying even consideration of reasonable impact fees. If reasonable impact fees are never implemented, Mr. Estep will be handing the Developer hundreds of millions of dollars at taxpayer expense.

Kudos to Commissioners Gary Search and Oren Miller for keeping their promise to the voters.

Commissioner Estep owes us an explanation and an apology. He needs to change his mind, fulfill his campaign promise, and vote to immediately proceed with our tax cut and implementation of reasonable impact fees to pay for the tax cut. To put impact fees in perspective, thanks to his Commission puppets, the Developer is only paying 5% of what he would pay in Collier County. We are making up the difference!