Naples luxury resort gets design approval for entryway, landscaping. Here’s how it will look

J. Kyle Foster | Naples Daily News

After months of conversations and arguments about an entryway befitting Naples and a five-star beach resort, the city’s Design Review Board has approved site and landscaping plans for the porte-cochere at the Naples Beach Club on Gulf Shore Boulevard.

The beach club, a Four Seasons resort, is under construction on the beach facing the Gulf of Mexico. Its 216-luxury rooms are replacing the 319-room Naples Beach Hotel & Golf Club, which stood on the site since 1946.

City manager tasked with decision on entry covering
City Council put the fate of the “porte cochere” in the hands of City Manager Jay Boodheshwar in January after members failed to come to consensus on a design during that meeting – and that was after considering three proposals in three months from Beach Club architect Hart Howerton. Council members couldn’t decide on whether to allow the developer to build the driveway cover because the designs all required encroachment on setbacks, which are minimum distances required around a building set forth in the city’s Land Use Ordinance.

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