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Planning Board recommends rezoning Metro Parkway site, advancing proposed Costco relocation amid traffic concerns
Summary
The board recommended City Council approve rezoning of about 36.74 acres at 10451 Metro Parkway to Commercial General to allow a proposed Costco and outparcels; staff found it consistent with the comp plan, the applicant submitted a Traffic Impact Study Feb. 25, and neighbors pressed traffic, pedestrian and delivery-hour concerns.
The Fort Myers Planning Board on March 5 recommended City Council approve rezoning roughly 36.74 acres at 10451 Metro Parkway from a mix of Planned Unit Development, Commercial Intensive and Mixed Use to Commercial General, a vote that advances a proposed Costco relocation and related outparcels.
Applicant representative Brad Wester presented the rezoning request and a conceptual site plan showing a Costco warehouse (applicant described a 58,000-square-foot store and a 16-pump, member-only fuel facility) plus outparcels along Metro Parkway. Wester said the proposal would extend an existing band of Commercial General frontage and create four principal access points, one controlled by a new traffic signal. He told the board the Traffic Impact Study (TIS) was submitted on Feb. 25 to FDOT,…
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