Barring a Hurricane this weekend, which is not in the current forecast, the Fort Myers Beach Town Council will meet Monday after being postponed due to Hurricane Milton. The agenda is now nearly 700 pages long and includes the appointments of all committee members.
Local Planning Agency
Big, big decisions will be made by the Fort Myers Beach Local Planning Agency in the months and years to come. On Monday the Fort Myers Beach Town Council will decide who will make those decisions.
There are 6 residents who’ve applied for 4 open seats on the LPA. The Town Council appoints members to the LPA (and all Town committees) in a closed vote. All 6 names will be on a ballot Monday and the top 4 vote getters are appointed. The Council continues to vote until the seats are filled. Who voted for who is made public after the meeting. LPA members serve 2-year terms.
The 6 candidates include 4 incumbent LPA members. Those four members are John McLean, Don Sudduth, Doug Eckmann and Jim Dunlap. Curlew street resident Tyler Spradling and Pearl Street resident Anne Neaf have also applied to serve
Marine & Environmental Resources Task Force
Also known as the MERTF Committee, expect to see wholesale changes on this group. There are 12 applications for five open seats on MERTF, including 4 current members. Several council members believe the current committee as it’s made up has gone outside the scope of what it’s required to do by town charter.
Other committee’s the Town Council will appoint members to include: Public Safety, Cultural & Environmental Learning Center Advisory Board (CELCAB), Bay Oaks Recreational Campus Advisory Board (BORCAB), Anchorage Advisory Committee, and the Audit Committee.
Committee terms are all for two years and they are all volunteer.
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They are asking for same number of units however, they are more than doubling the size if units which will increase density. Originally all units except for 1 were either efficiencies or 1 bedroom. They are now asking for all to be 1 and 2 beds. More beds = more density.
The original building was under 50,000 Sq ft. Now they are asking for 120,000. How does that not increase density?
They can build within code and keep to 3 over parking. Anthony Ashford presented a perfectly acceptable concept that’s beautiful. I do not believe anyone on the island would oppose what he presented.
9 stories over parking is absurd.
LPA should not have passed this and Town Council needs to listen to residents. If this passes the floodgates will open and our code will no longer be valid.
Stop the nonsense and keep to why the town incorporated in the 1st place.