Following received by : "web-ster"@capecoralwatchdogs.org  11-11-06  11:18 AM
Subject : The Great American Nightmare


The home and the family are the sum of all the work and sweat and tears of 
a life time. The activities of the mayor, the city staff and the city 
council are financially destroying the older people living on Social 
Security checks and maybe a small military pension. These are the people 
who fought for this country and watched as friends and relatives died in 
front of their eyes. What's happening here is not what these people fought 
and died for.

The people in Cape Coral appear to have one or two council members who are 
working for the benefit of the people while the rest appear to work against us.

We used to talk of the Great American Dream, but in Cape Coral that has 
morphed into the Great American Nightmare.

Four single family homes on a one acre site will pay $88,000 in assessments 
or $22,000 each. Sixteen condominium units on that same one acre site will 
pay $5,500 each. The benefit to each condo unit is the same benefit as the 
benefit to a single family home. If every one was paying equal according to 
hookup and benefit received, the cost to the single family home would come 
down considerably.

City officials have helped the development community make lots of money on 
the backs of the taxpayers here in Cape Coral. We are paying tremendous 
amounts of money to pay for the utility projects which provides a greater 
benefit to the developers than to the home owners. If the developers want 
sewer and water let them pay for it. The onsite waste water facilities are 
working fine for single family homes. There is no documentation that says 
otherwise.

If onsite doesn't work for large condominium complexes, that should be 
something the developers need to finance themselves. If they don't  want to 
pay for it then let them get out of the condominium business. If they 
create the problem let them pay to fix it.

John Sullivan

Cape Coral