Collier planners back new village in rural area near Lee County line

Collier planners back new village in rural area near Lee County line

Laura Layden | Fort Myers News-Press & Naples Daily News

A longtime citrus grower’s plans to build a new village in rural Collier County have cleared another regulatory hurdle.

On March 19, the Collier County Planning Commission voted unanimously in favor of allowing Fort Myers-based Alico Inc. to create a stewardship receiving area on land where the company has grown and harvested oranges for decades.

The designation as a receiving area would allow Alico to develop a more than 1,400-acre village, known as Corkscrew Grove East.

The planning commission, sitting as the local planning agency and the Environmental Advisory Council, voted 4-0 to recommend approval to county commissioners, who will make the final decision.

The proposed village would have up to 4,502 residences and nearly 240,000 square feet of commercial uses, including retail shops, restaurants and medical offices, along with at least 45,020 square feet of civic spaces, which could be used for schools, churches and emergency services.

The village would include affordable housing.

Read the full article on naplesnews.com.

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What’s the diff between SW Florida’s Rivergrass & the River of Grass?

What’s the diff between SW Florida’s Rivergrass & the River of Grass?

Phil Fernandez | Fort Myers News-Press & Naples Daily News

Key Points

  • New housing communities are emerging across Southwest Florida, including in Naples, Estero, Cape Coral and Fort Myers.
  • Rivergrass development in Collier County has begun construction on more than 1,000 homes.
  • In Cape Coral, the $100 million Bimini Square project is debuting apartments, dining and healthcare services.
  • Estero’s Coconut Point is adding new businesses, including proposed apartments, restaurants and retail stores.

As Southwest Florida’s frosty February chill prevailed, new and proposed housing communities continued to emerge in Naples, Estero, Cape Coral and Fort Myers.

A landmark Collier County endeavor was among them.

Here’s what to know.

There’s Collier County’s Rivergrass, and then there’s River of Grass
Impact on the economy and perhaps traffic will come in the form of Rivergrass, different in shape but similar in name to the somewhat adjacent River of Grass, as author Marjory Stone Douglas dubbed the Everglades eight decades ago.

With Lennar leading the way, construction just kicked into high gear on more than 1,000 homes, where the address is 5063 Oil Well Road, Immokalee. The target is to have the first of the housing as early as autumn, according to Lennar.

What’s maximum number of homes allowed in Big Cypress area?
The path was paved by Collier Enterprises, which has been finalizing federal, state and local permits for three villages including Rivergrass and a town known as Big Cypress in eastern Collier that have been years in the making with opposition from environmentalists and other folks against urban sprawl.

The maximum number of homes permitted for all of it at this point is nearly 9,700. The combined commercial is slated to reach close to 1.6 million square feet.

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Collier commissioners unanimously approve new 3,200-home rural village

Collier commissioners unanimously approve new 3,200-home rural village

Laura Layden | Fort Myers News-Press & Naples Daily News

With a unanimous vote, Collier commissioners approved a new rural village.

At a meeting Dec. 9, the board greenlighted the new village, known as Horse Trials.

The development is planned on nearly 1,218 acres on the north side of Oil Well Road, west of State Road 29. It’s the eighth village or town the county has approved in the environmentally sensitive Rural Lands Stewardship Area (RLSA).

The stewardship area, adopted nearly 20 years ago, encompasses 185,000 acres around Immokalee, east of Golden Gate Estates, with the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge to the south and the Okaloacoochee Slough State Forest to the north.

The voluntary RLSA program allows developers to build higher-density towns and villages on property with lower conservation value in exchange for preserving the most environmentally sensitive land through a credit system.

Read the full article about Horse Trials Village, and learn more about the RLSA program on naplesnews.com.

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