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Dear Mr. Killingsworth & Mr. Eubanks:

I would like to express my strongest support for the Martin County Comprehensive Growth Management Plan, Amendment MRT #13-1ESR, which you are reviewing early this week.

Last month, after nearly a year of extensive public meetings and workshops, the Board of Martin County Commissioners adopted this Amendment containing revisions to our County’s Comp Plan. Martin County staff drafted these revisions with help from the architect of the original Comp Plan, former Martin County Commissioner Maggy Hurchalla, and thoughtful public input.

These revisions are now being challenged by out-of-county developers who want to avoid compliance with environmental and land use regulations that are critical to preserving our treasured Martin County Difference. The Florida Department of Agriculture and South Florida Water Management District have also raised concerns based on their basic misinterpretation of some key provisions of the Amendment.

Local governments must be allowed to preserve – through land use ordinances and comprehensive plans – local resources that are critical to our communities. These decisions should be made neither by Tallahassee bureaucrats nor by regional water managers who have repeatedly demonstrated that they are either unwilling or unable to protect our shorelines, our native habitat, and our waterways including the dying Indian River Lagoon.

I strenuously encourage the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity to find Martin County’s Comprehensive Plan Amendment (MRT #13-1ESR) “in compliance” with state law, as indeed it was so carefully crafted to be.

Thank you for your consideration of my position, and that of the majority of Martin County residents in this matter.

Respectfully submitted,