Collier Board rejects moratorium for East Naples’s congested roads.
Residents of Collier County are accustomed to growth because it has permeated the entire county. Nevertheless, the Collier County Board of Commissioners now has a vote on whether to impose a moratorium on some of the county’s busiest roadways, such as Vanderbilt Beach Road and Immokalee Road.
Future development plans would be placed on hold for a full year under the embargo, according to a recent article by Bella Line of Fox4
Commissioner Burt Saunders offered more than a hundred people a chance to voice their opinions on Tuesday night.
“Rezoning is not something that should just be a rubber stamp given to somebody who comes in here to change residential property into commercial or high-density property,” said Conover.
Everyone was in agreement that something needed to be done about the traffic, with safety being the first priority.
“We have an incredibly bad traffic problem on Immokalee Road and on Vanderbilt Beach Road,” said Burt Saunders, District 3 County Commissioner. “I wanted to have this hearing for two reasons: one, for staff to come up with solutions, and they have come up with a series of solutions. I need the board to fund those solutions. That will solve a lot of the problems on those roads. Secondly, to impose a moratorium on new rezones and comprehensive land use changes on Immokalee Road and on Vanderbilt Beach Road, so we don’t keep making a bad situation worse. This will give us an opportunity over the next year to implement some changes, do more evaluations, and come up with other solutions.”
The most common request from folks here was for time. They claim that a 12-month pause would allow the board to finish up the current development projects on those highways and give them time to adapt to the significant population expansion.
It is about more than simply the moratorium, according to Richard Conover, even if the stop would not have an influence over improvements in schools.
Even though the moratorium hearing was ultimately unsuccessful, the commissioners promised to take steps to lessen the area’s traffic congestion.
This article originally appeared on Fox4
