School board community meeting focuses on future of two Lehigh schools
By MELISSA BILL - | Apr 7, 2021
The future of Veterans Park Academy for the Arts and the soon to be former campus of Lehigh Acres Middle School. were the topics discussed at a community meeting called by the School District of Lee County last Tuesday.
The meeting held inside the Star Café at Veterans Park Academy for the Arts focused on the repurpose and future use of the soon to be vacated Lehigh Acres Middle School campus on Arthur Avenue. Its current students will make the move to the new LAMS campus on Sunrise Boulevard once it opens in August of 2021.
A proposed ordinance to allow for backyard chickens in residential areas of unincorporated Lee County including Lehigh Acres, failed to pass county muster, meaning there will be no backyard chickens allowed in Lehigh in the new year or at least for now.
The Lee County Board of County Commissioners rejected the measure 3-2.
County Chairman Kevin Ruane and Commissioners Cecil Pendergrass and Ray Sandelli voted against directing the LDC Amendment on backyard chickens to a public hearing, reversing a process that was previously set in motion to allow for the chickens. Commissioners Brian Hamman and Frank Mann supported moving forward with the public hearing process.