It’s going to be extremely hard for the Fort Myers Beach Town Council to ignore the LPA’s recommendation to deny Terry Persaud’s 50-unit 5-story hotel in Times Square. The denial was unanimous, emphatic and unambiguous.
When LPA Chair Anita Cereceda asked Persaud if he planned to take his proposal to the Town Council anyway, which is his right to do, he wouldn’t answer. It was obvious LPA members wanted to send a clear message to the Town Council that there wasn’t a single positive they could take away from Persaud’s proposal.
LPA members shot down the height of the building, the Floor Area Ratio (2.5), the equivalency factor Persaud needed to use to come up with 50 hotel rooms, and his lack of any public benefit in return for such a big ask…