Marco Island is a Community

As a full-time resident living on Marco Island for over five years, I feel I have to write and express my sadness at the nastiness and anger that the anti-short term rental organizers have caused. The two groups Take Back Marco - where did it go? And Citizens for a Better Marco - again you can’t get much better than Marco Island, so how are they going to improve it? These two groups have managed to divide an island and its residents. I actually googled the definition of community - a group of people living in the same place - this is what Marco Island is, a community of people who live, work and enjoy the beaches and the SW Florida way of life together. But you always get those who want to ruin it. The ones that complain about everything and want to change what is working, because it doesn’t quite fit their narrative. Marco Island is a vibrant coastal city with jet ski tours, dolphin and shelling tours, bike and golf cart rentals and a myriad of other companies that rely on tourism and our visitors. We have been told that this new ordinance is simply a registration. This is not a vehicle for ultimately banning the vacation rental homes. We shall see. There will be repercussions if we lose our visitors that come every year to spend a long weekend or a week in the community of Marco Island. Please residents of Marco Island vote NO in August.