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Fort Myers Beach awarded $400K from state for projects

The new state budget signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday will bring the Town of Fort Myers Beach $400,000 in state funding to support critical infrastructure improvements and strengthen flood resilience throughout the community, the town announced. The funding will go towards road infrastructure Improvements, and stormwater improvements. According to a summary provided by the town, the full $250,000 requested to complete repairs and improvements not already funded on Town-maintained side streets and roads, as well as sidewalks and curbs throughout the island. The appropriated funds will be utilized for construction costs associated with repairing and improving Town streets, curbs, ...

Wyndham Garden Hotel development agreement approved by LPA

By a vote of 6-1, the Fort Myers Beach Local Planning Agency approved a development agreement for plans by the owners of the former Wyndham Garden Inn for a restaurant and tiki bar, with six mobile trailers at 6890 Estero Boulevard. The property owners, FMBH LLC, presented plans for two ...

Fort Myers Beach to renew fireworks, parade for Fourth of July

The Fourth of July parade and fireworks show will return to Fort Myers Beach this year to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, after a fundraising effort by the local business group What's Up FMB. The Fourth of July parade will start on Estero Boulevard from ...

Food truck park breaks ground

A year after winning approval from the Town of Fort Myers Beach Council to rezone their property for a Commercial Planned Development to construct a food truck park and beer garden, Jamie Hotka and Dan Myers have broken ground on their Estero Boulevard property with Stevens Construction. The ...

SWFL News

Fourth of July events to close Cape Coral Bridge

The Lee County Department of Transportation reminds motorists the Cape Coral Bridge will be closed for the Red, White & BOOM! celebration from 3 a.m., Saturday, July 4, through 3 a.m., Sunday, July 5. Cape Coral Parkway from Del Prado Boulevard to the bridge will also be closed at that ...

Local Columns

Guest Commentary | Property tax reform amendment threatens conservation measures

In an abbreviated two-day special session on June 1-2 to discuss property tax reform, the Legislature passed the governor’s proposed state constitutional amendment to increase the existing property tax homestead exemption from the current $50,000 to an eventual $250,000. The amendment, which ...

Editorials

New poll question for Fort Myers Beach Observer Do you support the proposed state constitutional amendment up for referendum to give homestead property owners an exemption from local municipal government taxes for up to $250,000 of their property's value?

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