As the attached letter (included below) vividly indicates Estero is
threatened by the widespread expanded of mining in our eastern regions
east of I-75. Please read the letter and make sure that your community
is represented at a meeting to discuss this important issue at:
The residents of eastern Estero have hired an attorney and a planner
to help in this effort, but it will not succeed unless all of Estero is
involved and participate in the permit review process. We will all be
affected so we must all participate in this effort.
I hope to see you at the Library on Monday at 7.
Thanks for all your help.
10/25/06
Dear Neighbors of Estero,
Jim Lytell and I are brothers who live off
Corkscrew road about seven miles east of I-75. In 2002, we successfully
opposed Scwab Industries proposed rock mine just to the north of our
neighborhood and just off Corkscrew Road. Since then, zoning for another
mine, Westwind, just to the east of Scwab’s proposed mine was
successfully defeated at the County level of government.
These two mines would have increased the
traffic into the western part of Estero via Corkscrew Road by about 2000
round dump truck trips, carrying either rock or dirt. The hearing
examiner and County Commission both realized that this increase of truck
traffic and the overall industrialization of the otherwise rural area of
East Corkscrew were not compatible.
Presently, applications have been filed for
three more mines along Corkscrew Road, another property owners is suing
the County to get approval to mine, the two that are in operation, and
another proposing to apply, all in east Estero. For anyone living along
Corkscrew Road or the north-south roads that it feeds will experience a
nightmare of increased heavy truck traffic and all that goes along with
it if these mines are approved by the county.
The time for action against this highly
incompatible usage of East Estero, and its life changing effects on all
of Estero, are now. A Hearing Examiner’s hearing on the first of these
mine applications is scheduled for November 8th, at 9:00 AM. Your
physical presence at this hearing is vital to saving Estero from as a
many as 7,000 daily round trip dump trucks traveling west on Corkscrew
Road on other Estero roadways. The noise, pollution, safety issues,
congestion, road damage, killing of animals, and change in the
atmosphere of Estero to an industrial war zone, will be the issue at
stake in these hearings.
If the County Commissioners and Hearing
Examiners believe that the people of Estero are against this proposed
usage, I believe that, as in the past, (we have won twice in a row),
they will deny any new proposed mines from being approved that would
affect Estero.
Please speak out now, or start to be content
with your neighborhood being impacted by having an industrial
thoroughfare passing through it for the foreseeable future.
Sincerely, Bill Lytell (980-0543/blytell@earthlink.net)
