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Council approves Arches Bayfront rezoning; comprehensive-plan amendment cleared unanimously
Summary
After hours of testimony and negotiated conditions, the Town Council approved a rezoning to a commercial planned development for the Arches Bayfront site (4-1) and separately approved the related small-scale comprehensive-plan map amendment unanimously.
Fort Myers Beach's Town Council took up a months-long, heavily litigated set of land-use proposals on June 2 and approved the developer's rezoning request to a commercial planned development (CPD) and a related future land use map amendment.
The council voted 4-1 to approve the ordinance rezoning roughly 4.98 acres (the Arches Bayfront proposal) to a CPD that would allow a mixed-use development including lodging units, retail and waterfront open space, subject to a package of conditions and several deviations from the land-development code. Council members recorded a robust public record of neighborhood concerns about height, buffering, drainage and parking; staff and the applicant agreed and refined conditions during the hearing.
Separately the council voted unanimously to adopt the companion small-scale comprehensive-plan amendment to change about 3.53 acres of marina future land use and 1 acre of mixed residential to…
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