Planning, Zoning & Design Board

Public Hearing Downtown Estero infrastructure Development Order The Board reviewed the development order for this project located on the east side of US 41 north of Broadway and east of the Broadway Shoppes.   This development order is only for the infrastructure of the site including roads, parking, stormwater collection/detention, landscaping, and utilities. The overall Downtown Estero project consists of 310 multiple-family units, and approximately 30,000 square feet of commercial uses. Proposed future construction of 300 multi-family (market rate rental apartments) in 3-4 story buildings. Two buildings will be mixed-use with 5,000 square feet of non-residential uses, and the third building [...]

The Board started their meeting with a public information meeting for a free-standing, fast food restaurant with drive-thru on a vacant parcel at the Estero Town Commons, otherwise known as the Lowes Plaza. The applicant stated the building will be a 2800-square foot, high-end coffee shop with a 25-foot landscape buffer along Corkscrew Road. No voting occurs during public information meetings. Public Hearing Corkscrew Pines self-storage Corkscrew Pines self-storage infrastructure The applicant is proposing to construct the backbone infrastructure with associated landscaping, drainage, reverse frontage road, and utilities. The application initially included a 7-Eleven convenience store, gas station [...]

Public Information Meetings Estero River Park The Board started their meeting reviewing the proposed first phase of the Estero River Park.  Plans include an access drive, 85 parking spaces, bike racks and Old Florida-styled restrooms on the north side of the Estero River.  The restrooms will be hooked into the nearby utility.  There will be a bridge crossing the river to the 8 foot ADA-accessible, porous multi-use paths on the southern side of the river. Decorative fencing will be on the perimeter of the park at US 41 and Corkscrew Road, with a chain-link fence on the eastern railroad side [...]

Public Hearings Copperleaf at The Brooks Copperleaf at The Brooks The Board started their meeting with a public hearing for Copperleaf at The Brooks’ request to expand their clubhouse located at Three Oaks Parkway and Coconut Road. Representatives for Copperleaf at The Brooks described their plans for expanding the clubhouse, pool café, and pool deck along with modifications to golf cart and parking areas, adding 21 parking spaces for staff.  They stated the architecture and paint colors will coordinate with, and enhance, the original design.  They also plan to add a third bocce ball court, infilling wet detention lakes and [...]

Copperleaf at The Brooks The Board will start their meeting at 4:30, Tuesday, with a public hearing for Copperleaf at The Brooks’ request to expand their clubhouse located at Three Oaks Parkway and Coconut Road. Miromar International Design Center has requested a public hearing for their plans to convert some of their building to office space.  The Design Center is located directly south of Corkscrew Road at the southeast quadrant of the Corkscrew Road-I-75 interchange. A public hearing will also be conducted for Village initiated rezoning of the two parcels of property on the north side of Williams Road, south [...]

The Board started their meeting by electing Anthony Gargano Vice-Chair of the Planning, Zoning & Design Board. Public Hearing Milan Villas Milan Villas The Board then conducted a public hearing for Milan Villas which plans a community of 44 single-family attached one-story homes.  Each unit will have three bedrooms, two baths and two car garages with a firewall separating the units. The property includes a dog park and a sidewalk throughout the community.  They have an enhanced, tiered landscape plan for both Three Oaks Parkway and Williams Road to create a privacy screening.  The monument sign will include decorative elements. [...]

At the start of the meeting, it was announced that the Board’s vice-chair Marlene Naratil has submitted her letter of resignation from the Board.  Her home was devastated by Hurricane Ian, so she is moving from Estero. Public Hearings AT&T monopole location The first public hearing addressed a special exception to allow a 100-foot-tall AT&T wireless telecommunications facility on the Bonita Springs-Estero Elks Lodge property at 3231 Coconut Road. The applicant had revised their original application from 149 feet to a 99-foot monopole with a 1-foot lightning rod for a total height of 100 feet.  Space will be made available [...]

The Planning, Zoning and Design Board meeting scheduled for Sept. 27, 2022 has been cancelled due to anticipated inclement weather. We will announce the rescheduled date when that decision has been made. The Board will start their meeting at 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, with a public hearing for Pelican Sound River Club which has revised their application to proceed with pickleball courts only. There will be public information meetings addressing requests for a convenience store with gas station at Corkscrew Pines and a self-storage building on the southside of Corkscrew Road, east of Stoneybrook Golf Drive. A public hearing will then be [...]

Public Hearings Riverwoods Plantation The applicant was requesting a special exception in order to add 4 pickleball courts on the south side of their existing tennis courts.  Riverwoods Plantation is a 55+ mobile home park with 640 homes located west of US 41 and north of Broadway West. The pickleball courts will be placed on an 18-acre recreation area at their entrance where there are 4 existing tennis courts, a volleyball court, dog park and large pine trees.  There is an existing hedge along the southern portion of this recreation area.  Pickleball play will be scheduled to start at 7:30 [...]

Arcos Executive Office The Board will start their meeting at 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, with three public hearings. The first will be for Riverwoods Plantation’s request for pickleball courts.  Riverwoods Plantation is located at approximately one miles west of US 41 and north of Broadway West. Representatives for the Arcos Executive Office will be presenting their request for a development order for a three-story building at the northeast corner of Corkscrew Road and Three Oaks Parkway.  The building will include two floors for post-op rehabilitation care, with the third floor providing medical offices. Milan Villas is requesting a rezoning [...]