Dear Haldeman Creek Property Owner,

As a property owner on Haldeman Creek and a tax-paying member of the Haldeman Creek Municipal Services Taxing Unit (MSTU), decisions made about zoning and variances can have an effect on your use of the waterway and the potential value of your property. For these reasons, we (some of your neighbors who are calling ourselves Friends of Haldeman Creek) have decided to make sure you are aware of a petition coming before the Collier County Planning Commission on June 19, 2014.

Haldeman Landing – Petition No. BDE-PL20130001765 – Standard Pacific of Florida GP, Inc. requests a 32-foot boat dock extension over the maximum 20 feet allowed by Section 5.03.06 of the Land Development Code for a total protrusion of 52 feet to accommodate a 42-slip multi-family docking facility for the benefit of 19.06 acres of land known as Haldeman’s Landing in Sections 11 and 14, Township 50 South, Range 25 East, Collier County, Florida.

While we understand the advantages of growth and progress in and around Naples, we also recognize that outside, profit-motivated developers will not always have the best interests of current residents at heart. We believe this is the case with this petition. At right, you see a photograph taken in 2013 from the north side of Haldeman Creek looking west toward Naples Land Yacht Harbor. It is the exact location where the 42 slips are planned - just west of the channel that turns south toward the homes on Lakeview, Bayview, Shoreview, Gulfview and Riverview Drives. While this tide is especially low, we think it demonstrates that Haldeman Creek is too narrow and too shallow to accommodate 42 new slips, 30 of which will be perpendicular to the channel. It is these 30 slips that have many residents the most concerned.

Add to this petition the fact that a permit already exists for a six-dock, 49-foot, perpendicular set of docks on the north side of the creek and directly across from the current petitioners perpendicular docks where you see the mud on the lower right of the photo. This has many residents concerned that the approval of the petition will create a dangerous bottleneck.

We believe the petitioner has alternatives. First, they can create parallel docks and utilize the east side of “the pond” east and south of their property for additional docks. Second, they can extend parallel docks farther west since they own the land all the way to the Windstar docks. Third, since the new development will be part of Windstar, they can expand the existing Windstar docks out by the bay where there is so much more room. Finally, they can do a combination of these options.

Originally, only those MSTU members within 500 feet of the proposed docks were notified of the petition. For this reason, our efforts to reach everyone who might be affected have been delayed. Your immediate intervention is important if we are to persuade the CCPC to help us attain some sort of compromise with the developers.

If you share our concerns about a petition that calls for a 160 percent variance from the existing 20-foot limit, we encourage you to contact the members of the Collier County Planning Commission (CCPC) to express those concerns. Their contact information is on the back of this letter. We suggest that the quickest way to accomplish this is through e-mail.

Finally, we would like to keep you informed of news regarding this and other future issues that may arise within the Haldeman Creek MSTU. Send us your e-mail address so that we can update you more quickly and less expensively than snail mail. To be added to the mailing list for the CRA, send your e-mail address to eknahue@colliergov.net.

The Collier County Planning Commission (CCPC) E-mail them today

District 1: Karen Homiak (Vice Chair) 4613 Long Key Court, Naples FL 34112 H:239-774-4264 E-mail: KarenHomiak@colliergov.net District 2: Mike Rosen 315 Cypress Way West, Naples FL 34110 W: 239-444-5790 E-mail: MikeRosen@colliergov.net District 3: Diane K. Ebert (Secretary) 2898 Lone Pine Lane, Naples FL 34119 H: 239-593-1103 W: 239-404-9265 E-mail: DianeEbert@colliergov.net District 4: Brian Doyle 820 Ketch Drive #4, Naples FL 34103 H: 239-293-4388 E-mail: BrianDoyle@colliergov.net District 5: Mark P. Strain (Chair) 3675 3

rd Ave. NW, Naples FL 34120

H: 239-455-7858 C: 239-877-0013 E-mail: MarkStrain@colliergov.net At-Large Environmental (Water/Hydrology) Commission District Stan Chrzanowski 2504 Sailors Way, Naples FL 34109 H: 239-598-0942 E-mail: StanChrzanowski@colliergov.net At-Large Enviromental Commission District 1 Charlette Roman 348 Colonial Ave., Marco Island FL 34145 H: 239-394-5416 E-mail: CharletteRoman@colliergov.net School Board Representative-Non-Voting Member Thomas Eastman 5775 Osceola Trail, Naples FL 34109 W: 239-377-0245 E-mail: eastmath@collier.k12.fl.us

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We wonder if the developers’ real estate agents will explain to future dock buyers how their boats bows might end up in the muck.

Six 49-foot perpendicular

docks already permitted

for this location.

Petitioner owns this “reserve” area.

This one- to six-

unit in the Demere

Landing area is

owned by another

person.