DENSITY: Let's help the City Planning Committee

Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. Source: US Census Bureau. Area as in square feet, square miles or square kilometers – not area as in condos, timeshares or apartments.

Marco Island residents care about density - too much impacts our property values - negatively; impacts our taxes - raises them. Contrary to the propaganda, more is not better. Quality of living decreases dramatically. More transients (tourists) appear to be a boon for business (more people frequenting the crappy restaurants on the island). But in the long run such is not the case. If the business geniuses had any sense, they would appeal to the permanent residents – the ones that could maintain them throughout the year. But no, keep providing mediocre products with rude service at exaggerated prices – and not even the density of Manila, Philippines* will suffice.

Let’s keep or otherwise improve our quality of life. For those greedy souls that want more business more construction more people, feel free to move just 90 miles east to Miami and enjoy the grotesque congestion 24 hours a day. Hey, at least in Miami there are great restaurants at fair prices! (So what if no one speaks English – better than the grunts and blanks stares and smacking of the lips we get here on Marco).

Growth – density can be achieved intelligently – read: sans the gluttony.

Perhaps we should consider a moratorium on building and rebuilding and more building until we can get intelligent visionaries to formulate a sound long term plan for growth where the number one consideration is (not money, greed, and business) but people and families.

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*With a population of 1,581,082 and a land area of 38.55 km², it has the highest population density of any city in the world with 41,014 people/km². Source: Wikipedia.