Eric Draper Quotes (5 Quotes)

It seems to give kind of a very open-ended permission ... to basically manage the ranch for an economic purpose. It's lost the balance between economic and ecological.

We spend more time opposing bad bills now than we did in the past. The Legislature is awful compared to what it used to be.

We recognized Florida ranchlands contained some of the best environmental lands in the state. It's better to have agriculture than a mall or housing.

What they're trying to do is to create the opportunity for them to be able to develop their land without them having to worry about someone challenging the development based upon the sprawl or the population projection rules, and those are two key concepts that the state Department of Community Affairs and counties use to determine whether a development is appropriate.

Most environmental decisions are based on science and we should not substitute a political decision-maker for science decision-making.