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October 25, 2006

Dear Community Leader:

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 South County Regional Library
  • next Monday evening (October 30th) at 7 p.m.

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.

Sincerely,

Don Eslick

Attached letter from Corkscrew resident Bill Lytell:

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)

 

 

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