Commissioners amend and approve Betsy Parkway mixed‑use planned development rezoning

On June 3, 2025, the Lee County Board of County Commissioners approved an amended motion to advance the Betsy Parkway mixed‑use planned development rezoning (DCI 2025.00003), a continued item seeking to rezone roughly 23.96 acres from commercial and agricultural to mixed‑use planned development east of the Stringfellow and Pine Island Road intersection.

Beth Workman, principal planner in the zoning section and lead planner on the case, told commissioners the application was continued from the prior meeting and that the hearing examiner recommended approval with conditions. Workman said staff included a memo that summarized changes made while the case was continued, including strike-through/underline edits to the schedule of uses and revisions to open-space requirements.

A commissioner moved to amend the motion to explicitly include the changes listed in the hearing examiner's memo; another commissioner seconded. The chair asked for objections and, with none, the amended motion carried.

The approved action rezones the 23.96-acre site to mixed‑use planned development with the hearing examiner's conditions and the additional amendments reflected in the commission packet. No members of the public were recorded as participants of record on the item.

Next steps are administrative: staff will incorporate the approved schedule-of-uses edits and open-space revisions into the project's documentation and the final zoning order.