Fort Myers Beach special magistrate issues compliance orders, fees and fines for multiple properties

FORT MYERS BEACH, Fla. — At a special magistrate hearing Oct. 7, the Town of Fort Myers Beach issued a series of compliance orders, administrative fees and daily fines against multiple property owners after code enforcement officers reported unresolved safety and permitting violations.

The magistrate found some properties in compliance and imposed only administrative costs; for other properties the magistrate ordered daily fines to begin if owners did not meet deadlines and set status hearings to review progress.

The hearing covered roughly a dozen code-enforcement cases. Town code officers presented reinspection photos and affidavits for each property and asked the magistrate to assess a $250 administrative fee in most cases to cover the cost of bringing the matters before the special magistrate. Officers also requested daily fines in instances where prior compliance deadlines had passed.

Several outcomes announced at the hearing included:

- Little Conga LLC, 5531 Estero Boulevard: Town code officer Marshall Travis reported the pool and fence were secured in a reinspection on Aug. 26. The magistrate found the property in compliance as of that reinspection, declined to impose the requested daily fine and instead assessed a $250 administrative fee to cover the town’s cost of bringing the matter before the magistrate.

- Scott Sullivan, 190 Bayview Avenue: Code officer Terry White (Terry Wyke appears elsewhere in the record) reported the tiki hut and raised decking remained without an approved permit and that the administrative fee had not been paid. The magistrate found Sullivan out of compliance and imposed a $150-per-day fine effective Oct. 1 and an administrative fee of $250; the magistrate…