10/25/06

Dear Neighbors of Corkscrew road,

Jim Lytell and I are helping to organize, with others, a resistance to the proposed mining of our rural residential area by a possible seven mines.

There are two mines in operation, three in application, one suing the county for permission, and one proposing to mine by a neighborhood meeting recently.

This simply is intolerable and totally incompatible for good quality rural life.

We are asking you to simply show up on November 8^th, at 9:00 AM, at the Zoning Dept. of Lee County, down town Ft. Myers. You do not have to stay, but your signature stating you are opposed to mining Corkscrew area, at this meeting, is essential to influencing the Examiner’s decision.

Those of you who can stay, will be allowed to give a three minute testimony of your concerns and opposition to industrializing Corkscrew road, and all the impacts that it creates for your residential existence.

Ladies are powerful in their testimonies about safety issues with their teen drivers, young children at the bus stops, and quality of  life. Remember, the bus that picks your kids up also has the exposure of thousands of dump trucks racing for their next load.(7000 one way trips a day potential, if all seven are in operation )  Light pollution, dust pollution, noise pollution, damaged and dangerous road ruts, increased industrial traffic, blasting, back up beepers, rock crushers, land strip mining, habitat loss, water pollution, concrete plants, block plants, black top plants, paver plants, for the rest of your life, and your children’s lives, are some of the issues that make mining incompatible to residential life.

Lee County has plenty of mines already off Alico, with three active mines there now providing 70+ years of rock and dirt for the growth of Lee County. This mining attempt off Corkscrew is simply a “feeding frenzy” by opportunistic land speculators, who could care less about you and me.

Please plan on coming, writing a letter, and or testifying before the hearing examiner, in an informal setting, at the Zoning Department. Your future peace and safety depends on it.

Saving Corkscrew for our kids,

Bill Lytell
(980-0543/ blytell@Earthlink.net/ www.corkscrewroad.com)

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