Rick Steinmeyer News Today

Rates will rise 25% in Lee County starting Oct. 1, an average yearly increase of $300 per policyholder.

A notice from the county said a federal decision will affect those with flood insurance — and those in need of flood insurance — in unincorporated areas and four cities.FEMA sources said the discount removal was due to what they said was a large amount of unpermitted work, lack of documentation, and failure to properly monitor activity in special flood hazard areas, including substantial damage compliance.

Rates will rise 25% in Lee County starting Oct. 1, an average yearly increase of $300 per policyholder.

A food truck park and rooftop bar opens tomorrow in downtown Bonita Springs.

Residents of The Vines, a community split by the existing Seminole Gulf Railway tracks that would be used as the trail, urged that the trail ends at Estero Parkway, shown here. MIKE BRAUN / COURTESY WGCU Bonita Springs residents were hoping for a resolution recently for a recreational trail that would replace the Seminole Gulf

At the January 18 Bonita Springs city council meeting, the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), who which commissioned the research for the project, presented multiple alternatives for the trail. The two most favored alternatives, according to the study, would replace the existing Seminole Gulf Railway (SGR) with a path that runs through Bonita Springs and Estero. It would start at Bonita Beach Road and end at Alico Avenue.

Medical marijuana shops may open where pharmacies are permitted if agreed in Collier. But they still will be months away from opening.

Project developers and Bonita Springs city officials on May 10 broke ground on Lee County’s first official food truck park, Rooftop at Riverside.

City Council voted to stop a 700-home development in northeast Bonita Springs, but the landowners are suing to get the plan approved.

The Bonita Springs waterway joins the Estero River as a South Lee County waterway proven to have high counts of fecal indicator bacteria.