Letter: The thanks they get

Editor, Daily News:

We are writing in the hopes that the Collier County commissioners do not approve the rezoning of the Riviera Golf Club.

They must put themselves in the same place as the residents of Riviera Golf Estates and consider how rezoning and allowing these "speculators" to build on the golf course would affect the residents' lives.

There is still plenty of undeveloped land in the Naples area to build "affordable" housing without totally upsetting an established community. How could they even consider putting a new community right in the middle of an established, over-55 community? There must be a law (or should be) against something like this ever happening. Would the "almighty tax dollar" be the reasoning behind this action?

It seems to us that the Collier County Commission constantly approves land for multimillion-dollar homes and expensive golf courses but can never find undeveloped land for affordable housing and affordable golf courses for the everyday person who, by the way, helped to put the commissioners in office. Will their next action be to allow "speculators" to buy Lely Hibiscus Golf Club so that the county could collect more tax dollars?

The voters of Collier County helped to elect the commissioners. The voters put their trust in them to make the right decision for their well-being. The least the commissioners can do is thank the residents of Riviera Golf Estates by letting them keep the way of life they worked all their lives to live!

Bob and Carmen Mendralla , Naples