Linda Smithe Letter to the editor Palm Beach Post 082524

Ag Reserve not for Ag Marketplace

Palm Beach County commissioners should deny the Bedner's Market revision to the Agricultural Reserve Comprehensive Plan. Our Palm Beach County Planning Commission denied it, our county staff is against it, and the commissioners need to be against it. Our county's Comprehensive Plan does not allow an Agriculture Marketplace in any preserve area within any of the Agricultural Reserve Planned Development options. Commissioners need to consider the traffic, the noise, the lights, the pollution in the vicinity of our wonderful Loxahatchee Refuge and in our Agriculture Reserve. Palm Beach County does not need to allow over 210,000 square feet of warehouse office use on two sites located west of State Road 7 on the north and south sides of Lee Road, in the Agricultural Reserve.

Linda Smithe, of Jupiter, represents the Loxahatchee Group of the Florida Sierra Club.