FLORIDA EVERGLADES - Development plans to build a Lowe's near the Everglades were shot down by the Florida Department of Community Affairs.

Earlier this year the Miami-Dade County Commission approved plans to build past the Urban Development boundary, which is set up to protect the Everglades.

Environmental groups gathered 2-thousand signatures in less than a month asking Governor Charlie Crist to intervene.

Damien Filer Works with Progress Florida, the group that fought the development and hosted the petition signing.

Filer says his group couldn't have stopped the development without help from Floridians.

Damien Filer / Progress Florida: "People made their voices heard, they said we already have over a hundred Lowe's in Florida, we only have one Everglades, it's a national treasure and we want to protect it."

Filer expects Lowe's to appeal the decision.

Filer set up a link on Progress Florida's website directing people to send an email to the president of Lowe's.

So far more than a hundred people have participated. Development Plans To Build Lowes Near Everglades Dead