{"id":17786,"date":"2013-01-17T22:15:57","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T03:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=17786"},"modified":"2013-01-17T22:15:57","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T03:15:57","slug":"a-letter-to-the-board-of-lee-county-commissioners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/01\/a-letter-to-the-board-of-lee-county-commissioners\/","title":{"rendered":"A Letter to the Board of Lee County Commissioners"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9856\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9856\" style=\"width: 208px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/setting-the-record-straight\/j-l-kreger\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9856\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-9856 \" title=\"J.L. Kreger\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/J.L.-Kreger.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/J.L.-Kreger.jpg 297w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/J.L.-Kreger-265x300.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9856\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">J. L. Kreger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I am writing to you as President of the Community Council of Lehigh Acres to personally request you reconsider your plan to suspend impact fees for Lee County for the next 2 years.\u00a0\u00a0This will directly impact the Homestead Road project in Lehigh Acres, since those fees are the funding for obtaining the final right-of-ways needed to finish the last part prior to reconstructing Homestead Road.<\/p>\n<p>Lehigh Acres has been on the back burner far too long for this to happen.\u00a0\u00a0With 5,000 plus foreclosures on the market, the building industry is leading you on a wrong path at this time.\u00a0\u00a0Why would people build a new house when they can buy a brand new foreclosure for \u00bd the price of a new one.\u00a0\u00a0Let\u2019s get our priorities in the correct order.\u00a0\u00a0Finishing Homestead Road WILL lead to building more homes, apartments, and commercial space over the next 5 years \u2013 at which time we will be in a stronger economic climate.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If you delay the work needed to complete Homestead Road, you will directly be responsible for growth in Lehigh Acres to stagnate.\u00a0\u00a0I cannot express myself any more strongly than this.\u00a0\u00a0The people of Lehigh Acres believed in you and voted for you. Don\u2019t let us down.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jim Kreger<\/p>\n<p>President \u2013 Community Council of Lehigh Acres<\/p>\n<p>Member: Economic Development Board of Lehigh Acres<\/p>\n<p>Member: Greater Lehigh Area Chamber of Commerce<\/p>\n<p>Member: Kiwanis Club of Lehigh Acres Board of Directors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am writing to you as President of the Community Council of Lehigh Acres to personally request you reconsider your plan to suspend impact fees for Lee County for the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,61],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}