To the editor: At the Lee County Board of County Commissioners (BoCC) meeting on Sept. 15, the board voted to take the Lee Plan amendments off the calendar for further reflection. During the lengthy discussion preceding the vote, Board Chair Cecil Pendergrass’ statements raised troubling ...
To the editor: I was a member of the Greater Pine Island Civic Association in the ‘80s with islanders like Gene and Ellie Boyd, Barbara Dubin and Anna Stober. Many islanders had a vision for the future of our island. No to high rises, no to overdevelopment, no to traffic lights, no to high ...
Do you like your neighborhood? Do you want to continue to have a say in how it changes and grows? If you’re in unincorporated Lee County and the answer to those questions is yes, then I urge you to speak up about the proposed revisions to the Lee County Comprehensive Plan and the Land ...
Last week, the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation (SCCF) spoke out against a proposal for the Lee County Board of County Commissioners (BoCC) to amend the county’s comprehensive land use plan to allow for more development in the sensitive Density Reduction/Groundwater Resource (DR/GR) ...
To the editor: An ingrained quality of Americans is to distrust their government, any government. You might as well get a tattoo. Why? Our government leaders really don’t care about us. Tuesday, June 25, Lee County gave us a perfect civic lesson in these two American truths. Social media ...
AUG312026 Having now reviewed the fine print in the Lee County proposal to amend the Lee Plan and its implementing statutes in the Lee Development Code, I now conclude that the Board of County Commissioners —utilizing the rubber stamp of the Lee County Local Planning Agency at its ...
