Eight Naples homeowners associations have banded together to preserve the small-town feel of Naples, which they fear is quickly disappearing due to the city’s penchant for granting deviations and variances from its own codes.  “Deviations and variances should be the rare exception, not the rule,” the HOA conglomerate wrote in a letter to the city’s planning advisory board. “Excessive variances establish a dangerous and undesirable precedent.”    Read the article………………