Gates for 70 square miles of planned communities in east Collier aren't going to block endangered Florida panthers, roaming bears or the smoke from the routine nearby controlled burns in the Everglades area.
But as it turns out, they might not even end up keeping out the public they're intended to prevent from entering.
Depending on how the projects are paid for, outsiders may be able to explore the avenues to potentially see the aforementioned animals and beautiful birds that have forever called those lands home or the partying mammals expected to later converge in newly constructed cul-de-sacs.
The issue of citizens' rights came up during a planning board discussion leading up to Tuesday's upcoming historic votes by the County Commission on developments in the environmentally sensitive Rural Lands Stewardship Area, also known as the RLSA.