Lee County considering making cashless toll system permanent
Published: April 6, 2021 6:03 PM EDT
Updated: April 6, 2021 11:19 PM EDT
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Gone are the days where someone would greet you and collect your cash at the tollbooth. COVID-19 brought a new era of cashless tolls and Lee County wants it to stay that way.
But the change could cost you an additional $2 every time you pass a tollbooth in Southwest Florida.
The cashless system may become permanent, doubling prices for some drives.
However, the county is offering a solution so people don’t end up with higher tolls.
As long as you get a transponder, the toll to cross the Midpoint Bridge, the Cape Coral Bridge and the Sanibel Causeway would remain the same.
Littleton/Kismet realignment made official
By CHUCK BALLARO - | Mar 17, 2021
It had been a long time coming, and maybe long overdue, but officials from Cape Coral and Lee County cut the ribbon for the newly constructed Littleton Road-Kismet Parkway realignment last week.
The Lee County Board of County Commissioners and Cape Coral Mayor John Gunter were on hand for a 10-minute ceremony to commemorate the completion and to cut the ribbon on the already completed project.
The project was a county priority and a joint venture with the city. The cost of the project was about $4 million, half of which was paid through impact fees and contributions from the Cape.
A program was approved in Lee County to help families waiting on permanent housing so they can get off the streets.
Advocates for those experiencing homelessness and Lee County Board of County Commissioners hope to reduce the number of moms, dads and kids sleeping in tents in local parks.
The goal is for families on the county’s rapid rehousing list to have a bed in a hotel to sleep in as soon as May 15 and have a permanent place to live by May 30.
Carlton Martinez lived in a car, on a couch and outside when he lost his home, but he didn’t lose the people who made it home.
Lee Civic Center’s future in question?
Committee to hear two proposals for county facility and property
By CHUCK BALLARO - | Mar 10, 2021
A committee put together to evaluate management proposals for the Lee County Civic Center agreed Friday to give each of the only two submitters an opportunity to give a presentation and answer questions at a later date.
But not before residents who live in the still mostly rural area who have attended the Lee County Fair there for years had their say, with nearly every speaker not happy about one of the two proposals submitted.
Kitson & Partners, the developer of Babcock Ranch, has proposed to buy the 100 acres on which the Civic Center stands and, with 62 acres it owns adjacent to the site, to build a large-scale development off Bayshore Road where it terminates at SR 31.
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