“Reader’s Digest” always claimed laughter was the best medicine. In Lee County, laughter has also become a resistance tactic for people who want to keep their community free of ugly sprawl.
“There were no boos when a cadre of Lee County planners presented their re-write of an element of the Lee Plan to a packed house at the North Fort Myers Rec Center on August 25,” the Fort Myers News Press reported recently. “But there was laughter.”
Every time county planners touted the superiority of the proposed pro-developer changes in the plan, the crowd laughed them to scorn…