Collier commissioners continued a hearing on a controversial proposal to replace a decades-old citrus grove with hundreds of homes in eastern Collier County.
After a more than six-hour hearing on Jan. 13, commissioners stopped short of rejecting the project, encouraging the landowners to explore other options.
A local developer sought a rezoning to create a new residential subdistrict on what has long been agriculturally-zoned land — at 341 Sabal Palm Road. The property sits about 1.4 miles east of Collier Boulevard…