Pat Spagna

Neno & Pat Spagna
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Spagna's engineering career spans the country from California to Florida.Prior to coming to Collier County in 1973, he served as planning director in Manatee County.He served as Collier County Community Development Administrator from 1973-79 and has since served as President of the Florida Urban Institute, Inc.He still works in the planning department for the City of Naples.

According to Spagna, his most rewarding accomplishments were associated with the original Golden Gate Master Plan (GGMP) Committee in the early 1990s.At that time, he says the Estates was platted in five-acre parcels, each zoned for up to 16 homes.

Spagna said if each of those five-acre parcels had been developed into 16 homes, we would have had over three million homes at build out.

"That would have been a catastrophe," he said.

Spagna said the goal of the early GGMP committee was to draft a plan for a rural lifestyle in the Estates, providing property owners with "a little bit of country" and ordinances to protect that way of life.

A strong supporter of community involvement, Spagna has given countless hours of his time to civic and development-related activities in the community.

He is a member and past president of the Golden Gate Estates Area Civic Association, has served on the Rural Growth Study Committee, the Water and Waste Water Authority and the Rural Lands Assessment Area Oversight Committee.

Spagna holds an associate's degree in urban management and administration, three masters degrees in biology, geography, urban and regional planning and a doctorate in public administration.

He has been a strong advocate for International College, which awards an annual Community Service Award in his honor.Spagna also sponsors a student scholarship and the school's public administration faculty office is named in his honor.
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Spagna and his wife, Pat, have two children and seven grandchildren.