Fort Myers Beach has joined forces with Seagate Development Group against a lawsuit that questions their approval of 235-foot coastal towers. The town’s legal staff submitted documents backing Seagate’s 72-page defense in circuit court.
“To save legal fees and preserve public resources for the Town of Fort Myers Beach, and for judicial economy, the Town desires to ‘piggy-back’ on and join Seagate’s Response to Order to Show Cause,” wrote Gretchen R.H. Vose of the Vose Law Firm, according to Fort Myers Beach Talk.
Local group Protect FMB filed suit after officials approved construction far above the standard three-story cap. The planned buildings will rise 17 stories at the former site of Red Coconut RV Park…