Tag: Boca Grande Historic Preservation Board

Historic Preservation Board to elect officers and discuss a roof at meeting

January 8, 2021
Marcy Shortuse
News

STAFF REPORT – The Boca Grande Historic Preservation Board will meet at the Boca Grande Community Center on Wednesday, Jan. 13 at 10 a.m. in the auditorium. The meeting agenda and backup...

Boca Grande Historic Preservation Board vetoes approval of National Register of Historic Places nomination 4-2

November 14, 2020
Marcy Shortuse
News

BY MARCY SHORTUSE- The Boca Grande Historic Preservation Board voted 4-2 against supporting a nomination for a portion of the Boca Grande residential historic district to be placed on the National...

Meetings set to hear National Historic Register proposal: And still more answers come to light regarding the pros and cons of an NHR listing

October 2, 2020
Marcy Shortuse
News

BY MARCY SHORTUSE – Dates for meetings regarding an ultimate decision to place parts of the residential area of the Boca Grande Historic District on the National Register of Historic places...

Historic Preservation Board to meet next week to discuss numerous request, including one from Catholic Church

June 5, 2020
Marcy Shortuse
News

STAFF REPORT-The Boca Grande Historic Preservation Board will meet for the first time in a long time, on Wednesday, June 10 at 10 a.m. in the Woman’s Club Room at the Boca Grande Community...

Historic Preservation Board approves Gasparilla Inn Beach Club Phase II plan, Gilchrist Avenue garage

December 13, 2019
Marcy Shortuse
News

■ BY MARCY SHORTUSE The Beach Club rehabilitation, a taller garage vs. a small house, and giving contributing status to a home on Whiskey Row were three interesting items the Boca Grande Historic...

A history of miscommunication with Lee County: the Promenade

November 15, 2019
Marcy Shortuse
News

■ BY MARCY SHORTUSE The controversy surrounding the Promenade – a walkway that runs along the land by the seawall from 1st Street to 4th Street – hasn’t always been so convoluted. While county...

According to County, our right to promenade is not easily defendable

November 8, 2019
Marcy Shortuse
News

■ BY MARCY SHORTUSE If you’re a regular Boca Grande beachgoer, you may have noticed a new addition to our already crowded Promenade. A Stonehenge-type obstacle (shown at right) has now been placed...

Obstacles in the ‘Promenade’ prompt questions of ownership yet again

July 5, 2019
Marcy Shortuse
News

■ BY MARCY SHORTUSE The right to roam the Promenade is being infringed once again, not only by overgrown bushes but by brand-new plantings right in the thoroughfare. This seems to have become an...

Hanafee resigns from Historic Preservation Board

June 14, 2019
Marcy Shortuse
News

■ BY SUE ERWIN The Boca Grande Historic Preservation Board approved all four items on the agenda at the monthly meeting held on Wednesday, June 12. The first special certificate-of-appropriateness...

Historic Preservation Board debates 11th Street project, E. Railroad home

May 10, 2019
Marcy Shortuse
News

■ BY MARCY SHORTUSE Lee County Planning approached the Boca Grande Historic Preservation Board at their monthly meeting on Wednesday, May 8 with three projects on the agenda, but one stood out as a...