Protect Sarasota Bay: Deny Beruff’s No Buffer Wetland Permit

Roy Pinnell

We need to stop the aggressive efforts to destroy our natural areas and do a better job of controlling ongoing extreme development of our area.

Randall Miller

Protect our water, our shoreline, our animals, and our way of life!

Barb Mabie

I am tired of the destruction of our towns, wetlands, habitats, our way of life! These developers are about the almighty buck no matter what they destroy!

Corazon Sanders

Protect Sarasota Bay!

Christine Gustaw

We need to protect what little land we have left. When you destruct our land, you destruct our ecosystem.

Mark Crawford

Environmental protection is more important than ever with all the new people moving to Florida with the impacts on all levels. Poor fishing, discolored water, unbelievable traffic, raw sewage releases, limiting access to the waterways. Privatizing what was once public. Please $TOP selling out the people of this state!

Steve Lancaster

Continued habit destruction to make a millionaire richer is unconscionable. They have already decimated the mangroves before by illigal trimming.

Erin Purdy

Please preserve our wetlands! They keep our bay and gulf waters filtered and help our ecosystem survive. We have enough stress on all of our natural habitat without this. Please stop, it benefits us ALL to stop.

Supporter

This coastline should be protected above all else.

Kelly Franklin

Carlos Beruff’s greed is boundless. Our wetlands are not. Protect them as required by years of science and local law.

Mike O'Neal

I live just north and west of this development and Tidy Island. Once the damage this wall will do to this pristine fishery is allowed there can be no repair, mitigation or replacement. Once lost we can't get it back!

Supporter

We must protect our shoreline. These mangroves are the last defense for preventing storm surge from tropical storms.

Robbie Hong

Destroy more wetland is unacceptable.

Thomas Danahy

This buffer is zoned as such for good reasons: to protect the structures there, to protect the wetlands within the buffer, and to protect Sarasota Bay from pollution. Do not grant a variance to this zoning because this property has always been properly so zoned, and the owners have no expectation that it would be otherwise.

Martin Jordan

This is absolutely ridiculous. Packing boards and committees for self gain over the citizens with such blatant deceit needs to be stopped and stopped now. Deny this and end it permanently.

Karen Willey

This is simply outrageous. It must be denied. Mangroves protect property behind them, seawalls do not.

Cindy Reno

I do not want to see anymore of our precious wetlands destroyed by developers not giving a damn...We need these wetlands to protect our shores...backoff!

Yvonne Kelly

New seawalls should no longer be permitted in estuaries, wetlands, or bays of west coast Florida. Have we learned nothing from our past mistakes or from the marine sciences?

MARK VANDEREE

We must Save the Wetlands of Manatee and Sarasota Counties because our lives and the lives of the marine ecosystems depend on it. All life on God's Earth is born of the oceans, and the oceans are born of the wetlands.

Sarah Colandro

Manatee County is a special place, less developed and more authentically Florida than so many other coastal counties. Please help preserve it for current and future citizens.