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Firefighters in north Collier County continue fighting 1,500-acre fire; two homes destroyed


Firefighters in north Collier County continue fighting 1,500-acre fire; two homes destroyed
Michael Braun, Naples Daily News
© Conner Levy /Special to naplesnews.com
A line of smoke rises above a tree line in Golden Gate Estates in Collier County on Saturday, May 22, 2021. A brush fire had burned more than 1,000 acres.
More than three-fourths of a 1,500-acre fire in north Collier County remained active Sunday morning with firefighters from two counties working to further contain flames that destroyed two homes and damaged two others.
Sunday afternoon the Florida Forest Service Caloosahatchee Center was reporting the fire remained about 20 percent contained.
Melinda Avni, a mitigation specialist for the Florida Forest Service Caloosahatchee Center, said the service s wildland firefighters were building and improving existing containment lines around the fire and providing access for cooperating structure crews. ....

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Collier County planners recommend approval of Bellmar rural village


As proposed, Bellmar would have up to 2,750 homes and as much as 85,000 square feet of commercial development in its village center, with at least 27,500 square feet of civic, governmental and institutional uses and an amenity center on roughly 15 acres.
The project still requires a go-ahead from county commissioners, as well as regulatory approvals and permits from state and federal regulators, which will scrutinize its environmental impacts.
County commissioners are expected to vote on the project next month, as well as another village, known as Longwater, proposed by the same developer.
Bellmar would sit east of DeSoto Boulevard, about four miles south of Oil Well Road. ....

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