Fort Myers Beach council advances overhaul of impact fees, cutting some rates and switching residential charges to size-based tiers

Fort Myers Beach — The Town Council advanced a broad update to the town's impact-fee rules on Monday, approving at first reading an ordinance that adopts an impact-fee study prepared by Access Infrastructure and DP Guthrie LLC and schedules a second reading and final adoption for Nov. 17, 2025.

The changes would consolidate many nonresidential categories into two buckets (retail/eating-and-drinking and all other services), replace older trip-based transportation calculations with a multimodal or "mobility" approach, and switch residential fees from a single flat per-unit charge to a tiered system based on dwelling square footage. The study and ordinance also reduce several fees compared with the current schedule and add an administrative charge to cover the town's cost of administering impact fees.

Jason Green, the town's community development director, introduced the measure and brought Dwayne Guthrie of DP Guthrie, the consultant on the study, to present the details. "The unique things about impact fees," Guthrie told the council, "they're not just a general revenue. It's a it's a dedicated, source of funding just to fund…