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Lee County TDC hears multi-site parks restoration plan with FEMA, TDT and impact-fee funding
Summary
County parks staff gave a status update on multiple beach and park restoration projects — Bowditch Point Park, Lynn Hall restrooms, Crescent Beach, Fort Myers Beach Pier, Causeway Islands and Matanzas Pass boardwalk — listing timelines and funding sources; members pressed for final design plans and clarified that some restroom trailers will be permanent-style portable units.
Lee County parks officials updated the Tourist Development Council on Jan. 8 about the status and funding for a series of coastal park restoration projects, saying work is at various stages of design, permitting and construction and that a number of projects rely on FEMA funds and Tourist Development Tax (TDT) revenues.
Mac Young and Tom Barnes reviewed six principal sites. For Bowditch Point Park, Young described interior and exterior repairs to restrooms and maintenance buildings, shade-structure replacement, boardwalk repairs and dock replacement; the project is currently under FEMA review and staff estimated about 12 months of construction once it begins. Young said Lynn Hall’s replacement restroom complex will be elevated, constructed of…
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