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Lee County pursues unified nuisance notice and scales back school redevelopment plan
Summary
County staff said multiple departments are drafting a unified nuisance-notice form to streamline enforcement of abandoned properties; a developer working on a former school plans 10–12 housing units with indoor parking, down from an earlier 20-unit proposal.
Jeremy [no last name provided], a Lee County staff member, told the committee that the building, zoning and health departments are jointly drafting a unified notice of nuisance form to improve enforcement against abandoned properties.
The proposed form matters because staff said combining notices will streamline enforcement across multiple offices and make it easier to act on code violations. Jeremy said the county is also pursuing options for larger abandoned commercial properties and continuing movement on redevelopment of a former school property.
Jeremy described the interdepartmental effort: "The group of, between the building and zoning office and Charlie's office as well as the health department is working on a, notice of notice of nuisance form, essentially, that, we're trying to compile between the the the multiple offices to for efficiency purposes essentially that states nuisance code violations that will be issued to property owners if if there is a nuisance code violation found between either the zoning office building zoning office as well as the health department." He said the work is intended to "assist the offices as they work together to try to combat, you know our nuisance property issues that we have throughout the county."
On a separate property, Jeremy said a development group that has worked with the county for about a year and a half reconvened after engineers and architects reviewed the site. "They are looking at 10 to 12, with indoor parking due to, just some of the the structural issues with that and and what it would take to actually put in. Just financially, it would have been too much to put in 20 at the moment." He added the development group is preparing draft designs and that the project will be presented to committee and the board before moving forward. Staff did not present a timetable or a formal motion; work on the notice form and the redevelopment remains in progress.
County staff also said they are continuing to explore pathways to resolve several larger abandoned commercial properties countywide. No formal enforcement actions or votes were recorded at this meeting.
