John Mayher News Today

Renaissance at Beverly Ridge stands on the former site of a steel fabricating plant. The city helped fund the residential development, but some homes aren’t measuring up.

"It is undisputed that the subject property, and indeed most of the island, is located in the (coastal hazard zone)," the ruling reads. "The County has adopted a 16-hour out-of-county evacuation time for a category 5 storm event (but), the base scenario (i.e., the analysis used for growth management purposes) out-of-county clearance time for Lee County is actually 84.5 hours for a category 5 storm."  So instead of taking most of one day, evacuating Lee County during a top-tier storm would actu...