Lee County building height and resiliency plan discussed at GPICA’s August meeting

By PAULETTE LeBLANC pleblanc@breezenewspapers com

The main topic of the Greater Pine Island Civic Association meeting Aug 1 was a discussion with Lee County Commissioner Kevin Ruane on building heights, as well as a presentation from Lee County Zoning Section Manager of Community Development Anthony Rodriguez

Deb Swisher-Hicks opened the monthly meeting of the Greater Pine Island Civic Association on Tuesday, August 1, 2023, by reading from the Greater Pine Island Community Plan, written in 2001.

In June, Rodriguez said his staff was directed by the Lee County Board of County Commissioners to make an

“Depending upon where you are in Lee County, how our staff measures building height can differ Captiva has one specific set of regulations, Pine Island has another, San Carlos Island has another and then the rest of unincorporated Lee County has other regulations.”

Lee County Zoning Section Manager of Community Development Anthony Rodriguez effort to reach out to the public with a package of land development code amendments, specific to Pine Island “This is part of a series of meetings, that we are cur-