While the amendments have been years in the making and have garnered support from a majority of landowners and environmental groups, they still face organized opposition, namely from The Conservancy of Southwest Florida, which has raised a multitude of concerns about the revisions.
One of the Conservancy s biggest concerns is that the changes won t go far enough to steer development away from primary or essential habitat for panthers, in part due to the old data the county uses to determine where it s located. We are very disappointed in the decision by the Planning Commission to recommend approval of the RLSA amendments, said April Olson, a senior environmental planning specialist with the Conservancy, in an email.
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