Editorial: Naples Park redevelopment

The best defense that Collier County government could muster for its clumsy redevelopment effort in Naples Park was that at least the parties affected most, the property owners, would get to decide via a straw ballot.

Now even that is in doubt.

At least three property owners have come forward and told this newspaper that they have not received the questionnaire about features such as drainage and costs of up to $10,000 per lot.

The questionnaires were supposed to be in the mail to everyone. The $18,000 consultant in charge of this phase of the fiasco, Naples' Trullinger Associates Inc., says it merely worked with the property owners' list provided by the county and no further ballots would be forthcoming. One of the county's growing number of spokespersons disagrees, and says make-good ballots will be available.

Knowing what we know now, the inability of the county to print and mail notices of an initial opinion-gathering meeting this time last year seems an omen.

This project is losing its last shreds of credibility.

The county ought to get the messages: Leave Naples Park alone, and let its remakers fend for themselves.

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