Fort Myers Beach Comprehensive Plan Archives

Residents created the Town of Fort Myers Beach (FL) in 1995 to take control of land-use decisions from Lee County. Spikowski Planning was the lead consultant in preparing an entirely new comprehensive plan.

The complete archives of the comprehensive planning process remain on-line here, including early drafts of each element of the new plan, summaries of public participation, details of the adoption process, and amendments to the plan up until the 2005 evaluation and appraisal report.

 

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2010 Comprehensive Plan Amendments

During 2010, two amendments to the Fort Myers Beach Comprehensive Plan were considered and adopted on April 19, 2010:

Click here for replacement pages to update a printed copy of the entire plan.

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2008-2009 Comprehensive Plan Amendments

During 2008 and 2009, thirteen separate amendments to the Fort Myers Beach Comprehensive Plan were considered and adopted. All of these amendments were initiated by the Town of Fort Myers Beach after completion of the Evaluation/Appraisal Report, which was adopted in January 2007.

Final adoption hearings were held on June 15, July 20, and August 17, 2009. Click here for a copy of Ordinance 09-03 which adopted all thirteen amendments, and click here for replacement pages to update a printed copy of the entire plan. Click here for a copy of the full package of materials sent to the Department of Community Affairs, including Ordinance 09-03 and all adopted amendments. Or click on each item below to review the full background material on just that item:

OTHER PLAN AMENDMENT DOCUMENTS: Earlier transmittal letter to reviewing agencies; interim response from Department of Community Affairs; formal report from Department of Community Affairs; memorandum responding to DCA report

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2004-2005 Comprehensive Plan Amendments

Final public hearings were held on December 20, 2004 and January 3, 2005 to adopt Ordinance 04-13 to add the latest five-year schedule of capital improvements into the Fort Myers Beach Comprehensive Plan. Replacement pages that reflect this ordinance are now available. Background material can be downloaded. The LPA public hearing originally scheduled for September 14 was held on September 21 and the earlier Town Council public hearing was held on September  27, 2004 concurrently with annual budget hearings. Background material for both earlier hearings can also be downloaded.

On June 21, 2004, the Town Council adopted Ordinance 04-10 amending the Comprehensive Plan. Four applications for small-scale amendments to the Future Land Use Map were considered; two were approved and two were denied. Click here for a map showing the two amendments that were approved; click here for a revised Future Land Use Map for the entire town. Replacement pages for the Comprehensive Plan are available here and also from the town's web site.

On December 15, 2003, the Town Council held its final public hearing on a single 2003 amendment to the Fort Myers Beach Comprehensive Plan: Application 2003-1-TEXT, annual updating of the five-year schedule of capital improvements (Table 11-7, page 11-22). This amendment was adopted by Ordinance 03-13. Revised pages for the Comprehensive Plan can be downloaded by clicking here.

The Local Planning Agency discussed next year's comprehensive plan amendments and the upcoming Evaluation & Appraisal Report at its meeting on October 21, 2003. The Town Council will discuss these same subjects on November 17, 2003.

On June 2, 2003, the Town Council considered whether to accept applications for "small-scale development amendments" to the Comprehensive Plan more often than the current annual cycle for considering all other amendments.  A memorandum providing background information on that issue can be downloaded by clicking here.

Three amendments were considered to the Comprehensive Plan on 2002; all were requested by the Town of Fort Myers Beach. The first public hearings were held on April 16, 2002, before the Local Planning Agency. The LPA recommended approval of the first and third applications; the public hearing on the second amendment was continued until May 21, 2002, when a formal recommendation was made. The next step in this process was a public hearing before the Town Council, which was held on June 17, 2002. At that public hearing, application 2002-2-TEXT was denied, the other two applications were tentatively approved and were transmitted to state and regional agencies for their review. Final public hearings were held on the two remaining applications on September 9 and 23 and both were approved; click here for a copy of the adopting ordinance, Ordinance 02-07. Revised pages for the Comprehensive Plan can be downloaded by clicking here; these pages will update previous printings of the Comprehensive Plan.

Copies of the background material on these proposals can be downloaded by clicking below:

Two previous amendments to the Comprehensive Plan were adopted by Ordinance 01-07 on September 24, 2001 (effective date November 21, 2001). Click here to download the final ordinance as adopted. Click here to download replacement pages for the Comprehensive Plan.

Copies of background material on these amendments can be download by clicking below:

Two minor amendments to this comprehensive plan became effective on November 21, 2000. Download a copy of the replacement pages by clicking here. These amendments were in response to the following applications:

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Original Comprehensive Plan Archives

For this interested in background on the new Comprehensive Plan, click on any item below to review the complete archives of documents about comprehensive planning activities that have been undertaken by the Town of Fort Myers Beach since 1996:

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