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The Board will start their meeting at 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, conducting public information meetings for High 5, to be located in the Entertainment District north of Williams Road, and Shadow Wood Country Club’s proposed lifestyle center next to their clubhouse. The Board will then conduct public hearings for a medical office building and day care center on US41 south of the entrance to Breckenridge, a 3,567 square foot addition to the north side of the existing Walmart, and Home2 Suites hotel to be located in Coconut Point Mall. The full agenda is available here. Meetings are held in the Council [Read More.]

Council will start their meeting at 9:30 a.m., Wednesday, addressing a resolution to reappoint 2 Planning, Zoning & Design Board members for one year. They will then authorize the Village Manager or designated staff to negotiate a final agreement with the 3 top ranked firms to serve as construction manager at risk for the Estero Sports Park.  The final agreement will later come back to Council for approval. There will be a second reading and public hearing for a zoning ordinance pertaining to Coconut Trace located on US 41, west of Lyden Drive and east of Marsh Landing. The meeting [Read More.]

Drivers, pedestrians, and bicyclists are urged to use extra caution when traveling through the work zone. Crews will be transporting dirt as part of the pond construction east of Corkscrew Shores. Motorists should expect heavy truck traffic entering and leaving Corkscrew Road in that area. Motorists should expect intermittent daytime flagging for crews to perform earthwork close to the roadway. The contractor is placing embankment for the new road on both the north and south sides of Corkscrew Road.  Please be aware that trucks may be entering and leaving the roadway. Motorists should expect crews to be working on underground [Read More.]

Council will start their meeting at 9:30 a.m., Wednesday, reviewing the proposed Sports Park master plan. Once the plan is approved, it will be submitted to the South Florida Water Management District for review and approval of the storm water conveyance and ponding needs for the entire100 acre site. Other items on the agenda include a second reading of an ordinance regarding the Village seal and administrative code, and workshop items pertaining to the Planning,  Zoning & Design Board appointments and Estero-Fest. The full agenda is available here. Meetings are held in the Council Chambers, Village Hall, 9401 Corkscrew Palms [Read More.]

Residents will be able to dispose of household chemical waste safely and responsibly from 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. on Wednesday, January 15.  Items will not be accepted either before or after that time period. Chemical waste categories include items that are ignitable, corrosive, explosive and/or reactive and toxic, such as leftover paints, cleaners, herbicides, pesticides, automotive fluids and pool chemicals.  Never dispose of these items in dumpsters, compactors or at curbside with household garbage or down a storm drain or in the soil.  See Lee County Solid Waste link for household chemical waste categories. Items which are not household [Read More.]

The Board will start their meeting at 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, to conduct 3 public hearings. Genova Partners, LLC will be requesting approval of a development order to construct 11 townhomes and 20 single family (villa) units within the last phase of Genova located southeast of Corkscrew Road and Via Coconut Intersection. Estero Country Club is seeking to renovate one existing tennis court into 4 pickleball courts and add a new tennis court on the eastern portion of the club house located at 19501 Vintage Trace Circle. Pruitt Family Real Estate Holdings, LLC, is proposing to convert the existing 4,800 square [Read More.]

Residents and property owners in the Mullock Creek Basin in south Lee County can view FEMA’s new draft preliminary Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) at an upcoming public open house set for Jan. 15. FEMA will host the open house at Lee County’s Administration East Building, 2201 Second St., Fort Myers, 33901, in the Green Room on the first floor. The drop-in style meeting does not include a formal presentation. Property owners and residents can attend 4 to 7 p.m. In general, the Mullock Creek Basin includes the area between Alico and Corkscrew roads to the north and south, respectively, [Read More.]

On January 11, a conversation will take place between Abigail Adams and Mercy Otis Warren. Abigail Adams was a woman way before her time.  Historians will call her one of the most extraordinary women in American history.  She fought for women’s education and rights, understood the time’s political climate, managed a farm, the household finances, and children most often by herself, and she did not favor slavery.  Perhaps her most endearing quality was the thousand plus letters she wrote to her husband, John Adams, which gives an eloquent and evocative description of her life and times. They serve as eyewitness accounts of the [Read More.]

Council will start their meeting at 9:30 a.m., Wednesday, addressing a contract to obtain additional water monitoring data around Estero to better understand the water levels, water flows and water quality. There will be first readings of a zoning ordinance for Coconut Trace and an ordinance regarding the Village’s seal and administrative code. Workshop items include Corkscrew Road landscaping, public works update, community development 2025 work plan discussion and an FPL update. The full agenda is available here. Meetings are held in the Council Chambers, Village Hall, 9401 Corkscrew Palms Circle, near the entrance to the Estero Park. Residents may [Read More.]