Letter: Bundles, pieces of problems

Re: Riviera Golf Estates.

It would not be a monolithic lot being crammed full of gap housing.

Even a cursory look at the county land maps available on the Internet indicate that the existing golf course is four separate lots of tracts separated by housing and roads. Several of the lots appear to have very restricted access (golf cart trails). Therefore, in my view, any action on this land has to be done on a parcel-by-parcel basis.

I am concerned that any other action, such as treating these noncontiguous lots as a single entity, will establish a very dangerous precedent in land use. I can see developers in the future using this precedent to buy up and amalgamate into their development any parcels nearby to increase acreage, thereby increasing the number of units to be built and the profits to be gained, while skirting around land-use and growth regulations.

While building the maximum number of units on the main parcel, the outlying parcels may be designated preserve, or some such title, to avoid the costs of development as multiple, smaller parcels. I can even foresee an attempt to sell the outlying parcels to another developer so that these parcels can be amalgamated into another development, thereby being used a second time to increase acreage and the resulting housing density on the main lot.

William M. Cannon/Naples