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The Landings Yacht, Golf & Tennis Club

The Landings Yacht, Golf & Tennis Club

The Landings Yacht, Golf and Tennis Club is a gated bundled-amenity community of roughly 1,127 residences on the Caloosahatchee River in Fort Myers. An 18-hole executive course, 13 Har-Tru courts and a 192-slip marina. Sell or buy with McGreevy and Comisar.

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McGreevy and Comisar are the real estate team The Landings owners call first, for selling and for buying. We lead Domain Realty Group, the #1 real estate team in Southwest Florida since 2012, Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008, with over $2.5 Billion in Real Estate sold as a team and over $900 million in personal sales between Jesse McGreevy and Marc Comisar. The Landings Yacht, Golf and Tennis Club is a gated, bundled-amenity community of roughly 1,127 residences on the Caloosahatchee River in Fort Myers, Florida, and it is one of a small handful of communities in Lee County that owns both a golf course and a full-service marina. If you are ready to sell your Landings home, call Jesse direct at (239) 898-6072. If you are buying here, call Marc at (239) 287-5873.

This page is longer and more specific than anything else written about The Landings, and that is deliberate. The single most important thing a buyer or seller needs to understand about this community is that it is not uniform. Flood exposure, insurance cost, and condominium inspection obligations vary enormously from one village to the next, sometimes across a few hundred yards. We measured that variation from primary county and federal records, and we publish it below in full.

Why McGreevy and Comisar Are the Best Realtor for The Landings

If you are searching for the best realtor for The Landings, whether you are ready to sell your Landings home or buy your next one, McGreevy and Comisar is the team that delivers. We lead Domain Realty Group, the #1 real estate team in Southwest Florida since 2012, Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008, with over $2.5 Billion sold as a team and $900 million in personal sales between Jesse and Marc.

What we bring to a Landings listing

The Landings is a community where the right pricing argument is a technical argument. Two condominiums with identical square footage can be worth materially different amounts because one sits in a Special Flood Hazard Area and the other does not, or because one association has completed its milestone inspection and structural integrity reserve study and the other has not. We price on those facts rather than on a per-square-foot average across the whole gate, and we can show a buyer’s agent exactly why.

For luxury and waterfront sellers we bring premium marketing: cinematic video, drone, professional photography, a qualified-buyer database built over two decades in this market, and genuine discretion with off-market capability when a seller wants it.

Honors and recognition

  • Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008

  • 5 Star Award for Customer Satisfaction for 20 Straight Years. Only 5 out of 21k+ Licensees (Gulfshore Life Magazine)

  • #1 Team in Southwest Florida since 2012

  • McGreevy and Comisar and their Domain Realty Group team have sold over $2.5 Billion in Real Estate

  • McGreevy and Comisar alone have over $900 million in Sales

  • Nationally Recognized Top Producing Realtors

  • Platinum Sales Production Award Winners

Talk to us about The Landings

Selling your Landings home? Get a free home valuation at our Fort Myers home valuation tool, or call Jesse direct at (239) 898-6072. Confidential conversations are welcome. Buying at The Landings? Read how we represent buyers in Southwest Florida, or call Marc at (239) 287-5873 for a personalized buyer consultation.

The Landings at a Glance

The Landings Yacht, Golf and Tennis Club is a gated community in unincorporated Lee County, Florida, on the south shore of the Caloosahatchee River off McGregor Boulevard, with a Fort Myers 33919 mailing address. It holds roughly 1,127 residences inside the gates across 14 villages, governed by twelve condominium associations and two homeowners associations, and every resident is a member of the club.

Where it actually is, and why the jurisdiction matters

The Landings has a Fort Myers address but it is not inside the City of Fort Myers. It sits in unincorporated Lee County, within the Iona McGregor Fire District. We verified this against the FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer political jurisdictions layer with positive controls, and zero City of Fort Myers city-limit polygons intersect the community.

That distinction is not trivia. It determines which millage rate applies to your tax bill, which building department reviews your permit, which code enforcement office you deal with, and, importantly for a riverfront community, which Community Rating System discount applies to your flood insurance. Unincorporated Lee County carries its own rating, and it is a good one.

How big it is, and the two acreage numbers

Two acreage figures circulate for The Landings and both are correct, because they measure different things. The club describes the community as roughly 250 acres. Lee County GIS measures the platted Landings subdivision polygon itself at 200.13 acres. Adding the adjacent Riverside Yacht Club Estates and the club’s two northern parcels to the platted subdivision accounts for roughly 237 acres of dry land, with the marina basin and lake surface plausibly making up the balance.

Where you see a bare “200 acres” or a bare “250 acres” quoted without explanation, that is the source of the discrepancy. Neither number is wrong. They simply draw the boundary in different places.

How many homes, and the same boundary question

There are approximately 1,127 built residences inside the gates, derived from 1,143 parcels in the county’s Landings polygon less one vacant lot and fifteen common parcels. Counting the adjacent Riverside Yacht Club Estates, which has its own homeowners association, brings the community-wide figure to roughly 1,212.

The widely repeated “1,200 residences” is defensible only on the community-wide reading. We name the boundary every time we quote a number, because a count without a boundary is not a measurement.

The product mix

The Landings is predominantly a condominium community, which surprises people who know it only by its golf and marina reputation. Of the parcels inside the gates, roughly 1,042 are condominium units and 85 are single-family or land-condominium homes. By building height the mix runs from a single 18-story tower to a large stock of one and two story buildings.

Product

Approximate units

Where

High-rise

135

Ariel, a single 18-story tower built 1983

Mid-rise, 5 stories

252

Across several villages

Low-rise, 3 to 4 stories

287

Across several villages

1 to 2 stories

371

Harbortown, Longboat, Schooner and others

Single-family

160 community-wide

Mariners Cove, Lighthouse Village, Riverside Yacht Club Estates

Homes were built between 1973 and 2000. There is exactly one vacant residential lot left inside the gates, and no new construction has occurred since 2000. This is a finished, mature community, not one still being delivered.

What It Actually Costs to Own at The Landings

Owning at The Landings means paying two separate sets of fees, and this is the single most common source of confusion for buyers. You pay a club amenity fee that every resident pays because membership is mandatory and runs with the property, and you separately pay your own condominium or homeowners association assessment, which varies by village. Neither number alone tells you what ownership costs.

The club fee, and why membership is not optional

The Landings is a fully bundled community. The club states plainly that every resident is considered a member with an equal interest in the well-being and maintenance of the community. You do not choose whether to join, and you cannot buy here and opt out of the amenity fee to save money. That is a genuine difference from many Southwest Florida golf communities, where a social membership and a full golf membership are separate purchases and some residents hold neither.

The upside of the bundled model is that the golf course, the tennis and pickleball complex, the pools, the fishing lakes and the club dining are all included rather than gated behind a second initiation fee. The downside is that a buyer who will never use the golf course still funds it. Which of those matters more depends entirely on the buyer, and it is a conversation worth having before you tour rather than after.

What we will not do: quote you a dues figure we cannot source

Current club dues, any capital or initiation contribution, the food and beverage minimum, and the resale transfer fee are not published in any source we can verify. Figures do circulate online. Every one we found traces back to a competing brokerage or a third-party listing site rather than to the club, and we will not repeat a number about someone else’s money that we cannot stand behind.

The club’s membership office is reachable at (239) 482-3211 and will confirm the current schedule. If you are working with us on a purchase here, we will get it in writing and put it in front of you before you go under contract, along with the association assessment for the specific village you are considering. That is the honest answer, and we would rather give you that than a confident-sounding number that turns out to be two years stale.

The second fee: your association

Each village carries its own assessment, set by its own association, and the range across the community is wide because the product is so varied. A one-story villa in a low-rise association with no elevator, no structural inspection obligation and no lobby carries a very different cost basis from a unit in a 18-story tower with a full building envelope, elevators, a fire pump and a milestone inspection cycle to fund.

When we run numbers with a client we build the stack from the specific unit: club fee, that village’s assessment, the actual tax bill at the unincorporated Lee millage, and a real flood and wind insurance quote for that building rather than a community average. Anything less specific is guesswork dressed as analysis.

Property tax and the homestead reset

If you are moving here from another Florida home, be aware that the seller’s Save Our Homes assessment cap does not transfer to you. The assessed value resets on sale, so the tax line you see on the current owner’s bill is frequently far below what you will pay. This catches buyers out constantly, and the gap can be substantial on a property held for many years. Florida’s portability provisions may let you carry some of your own accumulated benefit from a prior Florida homestead, which is worth modeling before you write an offer.

Thinking of Selling Your Landings Home?

Selling at The Landings rewards a seller who can answer the technical questions before a buyer’s agent asks them. The buyers most likely to pay a strong price are the ones who have already been frightened by a condominium horror story somewhere else in Florida, and the listing that answers the structural, flood and fee questions upfront removes the discount they would otherwise negotiate for uncertainty.

What we do differently on a Landings listing

We build the fact pack before we go live: the village’s flood determination, the association’s milestone inspection and reserve study status, the current assessment, the club fee, and any pending or completed special assessment. A buyer who gets clean answers on those four points early does not spend the inspection period looking for a reason to renegotiate.

We also price against the right comparable set. A sold price in a village where every building sits in a Special Flood Hazard Area is not a comparable for a village where none do, even at identical square footage. Treating the whole gate as one market is the most common pricing error made here.

Recent sales, and getting your number

Ask us for the current picture in your specific village rather than a community-wide average. We will pull recent closed sales for your product type, show you the days on market and the sale-to-list ratio behind them, and tell you honestly what we think your home is worth and what it will take to get there.

Start the conversation

Get a free valuation through our Fort Myers home valuation tool, or call Jesse McGreevy direct at (239) 898-6072. If you would rather start with a quiet conversation about what your home might bring before you commit to anything, that is genuinely fine and it is how a lot of our listings begin.

Flood Zone by Village: the 100 Percent to Zero Percent Split

Flood risk at The Landings is not a community-level fact, it is a village-level fact, and the range is extreme. In some villages every single building sits inside a FEMA Special Flood Hazard Area. In others, not one does. Any description of The Landings that quotes a single flood zone for the whole community is wrong for roughly half of it, and a buyer who relies on that will budget insurance incorrectly.

How we measured this

We point-tested FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer flood-hazard polygons against roughly 800 Lee County building-footprint centroids sourced from the county property appraiser, then grouped the result by village. This is a building-level measurement, not a parcel-level or community-level estimate, and it is why the table below can distinguish villages that a zone lookup at the community’s main gate cannot.

The governing FEMA panel is 12071C0416G, effective 17 November 2022, confirmed by point test at all fifteen village centroids. Where the Special Flood Hazard Area applies at The Landings it is Zone AE with a Base Flood Elevation of 8 feet NAVD88. No building in the community classifies as Zone VE, the higher-hazard coastal velocity zone.

The table

Village

Buildings in a Special Flood Hazard Area

Share

Windjammer Village

35 of 35

100%

Harbortown at The Landings

29 of 29

100%

Ariel

1 of 1

100%

Longboat Village

41 of 44

93%

Schooner Village

14 of 15

93%

Trawler Village

6 of 7

86%

Steamboat Bend

4 of 6

67%

Riverside Yacht Club Estates

43 of 85

51%

Mariners Cove Village

12 of 48

25%

Lighthouse Village

5 of 28

18%

Steamboat Bend East

0 of 5

0%

Sunset Cove

0 of 2

0%

Sunset Harbor

0 of 2

0%

Flagship Village

0 of 5

0%

Clipper Cove Village

0 of 3

0%

What this means for your insurance and your mortgage

If a building sits in the Special Flood Hazard Area and you finance the purchase with a federally backed mortgage, flood insurance is mandatory. If it sits outside, it is not federally required, though it remains available and is frequently still a sensible purchase, because a meaningful share of flood claims nationally come from outside mapped high-hazard areas.

The practical consequence at The Landings is that two units of similar size in different villages can carry structurally different carrying costs, and the difference is not reflected in the list price per square foot. This is the single most useful thing to understand before you make an offer here.

Freeboard, and why the regulatory bar sits above the BFE

Lee County adds one foot of freeboard above the Base Flood Elevation, so the regulatory target on a substantial improvement trigger is 9 feet NAVD88 rather than 8. If you are contemplating a significant renovation of an older ground-level unit, that one foot is the difference between a straightforward permit and a much larger conversation.

Map revisions and individual amendments

Zero Letters of Map Revision affect the community, verified with a positive control that returned 22 Letters of Map Amendment on the same geographic envelope. Those 22 amendments, recorded between 2014 and 2026, are individual property-level determinations rather than community-wide remapping, and they include three denials. Six of them are in Mariners Cove, four of those dating from 2026. Many amendments issued before the November 2022 panel are marked superseded.

The pending Lee County flood map revision, expected to take effect in spring 2027, affects panels 0576, 0577, 0578, 0579, 0581 and 0583. The Landings is not among them, so the community’s flood mapping is not scheduled to change in that cycle.

Evacuation zone

The entire community sits in Lee County Evacuation Zone A, the first zone called in a storm. It is not within the Coastal Building Zone, which we confirmed with a positive control. Zone A is a straightforward consequence of riverfront geography and it applies to a great deal of desirable waterfront property in Lee County, but you should know it before you buy rather than the first time an evacuation order is issued.

Condominium Milestone Inspections and SIRS, Association by Association

Florida requires a milestone structural inspection and a Structural Integrity Reserve Study for condominium and cooperative buildings of three stories or more. At The Landings this obligation is mixed, not uniform: 23 condominium buildings across nine of the twelve condominium associations are subject to it, while three associations are entirely exempt because every one of their buildings is one or two stories.

Why a blanket answer is always wrong here

You will see The Landings described as a low-rise community and therefore exempt. That is false for nine of its twelve condominium associations. You will also see the reverse assumption, that a Florida condominium community must be facing large inspection-driven assessments. That is false for three of them and for every single-family homeowner.

We resolved building heights from Lee County Property Appraiser building characteristics through two independent county services, cross-checking a GIS building-footprint maximum-stories field against parcel-level records. We did not infer any building height from a unit number, and that caution turned out to matter: at Trawler Village, unit 102 is legally in building TF2, and at Clipper Cove, unit 101 is in building CCG1. In both cases the leading digit encodes the building, not the floor. Reading a floor out of a unit number here would have produced a wrong answer.

Where the obligation attaches

Required to complete milestone inspection and a reserve study: Ariel, Clipper Cove Village, Flagship Village, Steamboat Bend, Steamboat Bend East, Sunset Cove, Sunset Harbor, Trawler Village, and Windjammer Village. Most carried an initial deadline of 31 December 2024, with Sunset Cove and Sunset Harbor falling into the 2025 and 2026 window. Entirely exempt, every building one or two stories: Harbortown at The Landings with 29 buildings, Longboat Village with 44, and Schooner Village with 15. That is 188 units with no milestone or reserve study obligation at all. Outside the statute entirely: Mariners Cove Village, Lighthouse Village and Riverside Yacht Club Estates are homeowners associations rather than condominiums, and the milestone requirement does not attach to single-family homeowners association ownership.

Documented compliance, which is genuinely good news

Trawler Village has completed both a milestone inspection and a Structural Integrity Reserve Study, with stairwell and stair-tread remediation at two of its four-story buildings running through 2025 into 2026. Steamboat Bend East has passed its milestone inspection. We found no documented special assessment tied to either, and we ran a positive control on that search so the absence is a measured result rather than a failed query.

A completed inspection is a selling point, not a liability. It converts an open-ended unknown into a known quantity, and buyers pay more for known quantities.

The one association we will not give you a clean answer on

Sunset Cove’s two buildings are classified by the county as low rise, one to three floors. If the ground level is parking or storage rather than habitable space, the habitable-stories test may drop them to two stories and both buildings would be exempt. We could not resolve that from the records available, and it needs the plat or the certificate of occupancy to settle. If you are buying in Sunset Cove specifically, this is a question to put to the association in writing before your inspection period closes.

What to ask for before you buy any condominium here

Request the association’s milestone inspection report if one was required, the reserve study, the current budget with reserve funding levels, the minutes of the last twelve months of board meetings, and a written statement of any assessment approved or under discussion. A seller must disclose a pending special assessment. An assessment that has been discussed but not yet approved sits in a grayer area, and the minutes are where you find it.

Hurricane Ian and What Actually Happened Here

Hurricane Ian made landfall in Lee County on 28 September 2022 and drove storm surge up the Caloosahatchee. The National Hurricane Center recorded inundation of five to eight feet above ground level along the river, with the Fort Myers tide gauge reaching 7.26 feet above mean higher high water. Across Lee County the storm impacted 52,514 structures and destroyed 5,369. The Landings sustained real, documented damage, and it has been repaired.

What the record shows, building by building

The clearest documented account is at Ariel, the community’s 18-story tower. Its repair and hardening program ran to roughly $5.5 million and included approximately 51,000 square feet of glass across 563 openings, rated to 175 mph, along with a full roof replacement and a new fire pump. The Taeping Room flooded and was rebuilt.

Elsewhere, Trawler Village replaced flat roofs and repaired lightning rods damaged on its four-story buildings. The Wheelhouse Grille was completely redone after significant damage. Insurance proceeds covered the Ariel repairs.

A correction worth making

Damage to the marina’s A dock is frequently attributed to Ian. It was not. That damage occurred in autumn 2024, from Helene and Milton, two years after Ian. Getting the storm right matters when you are assessing how a community has performed across multiple events rather than a single one.

What we could not establish, said plainly

We did not find a documented account of Hurricane Irma’s 2017 impact at The Landings. The community newsletter archive we relied on does not reach back that far. We are not going to characterize damage we cannot source.

We also want to flag a measurement trap. Lee County Property Appraiser parcel records carry no public hurricane-damage marker; damage reporting is owner-initiated. So the absence of a damage flag on a parcel proves nothing at all about whether that property flooded. Anyone telling you a specific unit was undamaged because county records are clean is misreading the record.

The hardening dividend

The most commercially interesting fact in this whole section is that Ariel’s opening-protection program reduced its insurance cost by roughly $400,000 per year. That is a concrete, community-specific illustration of something that is otherwise abstract: in post-Ian Southwest Florida, structural hardening is not just risk mitigation, it is a direct and large operating-cost reduction that flows through to every owner’s monthly fee.

Insurance Reality: Flood, Wind and Loss Assessment

Insurance at The Landings comes in three layers and buyers routinely budget for only one. There is flood coverage, which is mandatory with financing inside the Special Flood Hazard Area. There is windstorm coverage, which in Lee County may sit with Citizens or the private market. And for condominium owners there is loss assessment coverage, which is the exposure most buyers do not know exists until they need it.

Lee County’s flood discount is real and it is worth money

Unincorporated Lee County participates in the National Flood Insurance Program’s Community Rating System and carries a 25 percent premium discount, applied automatically. The county advises owners to confirm community identification number 125124 appears on their policy. The county joined the program in 1991 and the discount is worth roughly $15 million annually across the county.

There is recent history here that a careful buyer should know. FEMA moved in March and April 2024 to retrograde Lee County’s rating over more than 600 substantial-improvement rule violations in Ian rebuilds, and restored it in November 2024. Fort Myers Beach lost its discount. Unincorporated Lee County kept its.

Wind coverage

Windstorm in Lee County is written by Citizens Property Insurance or by the private market depending on the risk. Roof age is a dominant underwriting factor, and wind mitigation credits for opening protection, roof-to-wall connections and roof shape can move a premium materially. In a condominium the master policy generally carries the building envelope, so the wind question at The Landings is largely an association-level question rather than a personal one, which is precisely why the Ariel hardening program mattered so much to its owners’ fees.

Loss assessment, the coverage nobody reads

When a condominium association’s master policy does not fully cover a loss, the association assesses the owners for the shortfall. Your personal HO-6 policy’s loss assessment coverage is what responds. Florida law sets a floor of only $2,000 of loss assessment coverage with a maximum $250 deductible on that coverage. Against community exposures that have run into the millions, a $2,000 floor is close to nothing.

If you buy a condominium here, look at your loss assessment limit specifically and consider buying it up substantially. It is usually inexpensive relative to the exposure and it is the single most commonly under-purchased coverage in Florida condominium ownership.

The master policy and your HO-6, divided

Florida statute allocates responsibility between the association’s master policy and the unit owner’s policy, with the master policy generally covering the building as originally built and the owner responsible for a defined list of interior items including floor, wall and ceiling coverings, electrical fixtures, appliances, water heaters, built-in cabinets, window treatments and air conditioning equipment serving only that unit. Read your declaration, because associations can and do vary the allocation.

The 50 percent rule, and a condominium-specific trap

FEMA’s substantial improvement rule requires that when improvement or repair cost reaches 50 percent of a structure’s market value, the whole structure must be brought into compliance with current flood elevation standards. For a single-family home this is a manageable calculation.

For a condominium it is not, and here is why. The Lee County Property Appraiser cannot issue a tax roll value letter for a condominium, which is the standard instrument used to establish the denominator. Establishing the 50 percent threshold for a condominium building here therefore requires a private appraisal of the entire complex. That is a real procedural obstacle, it is expensive, and almost nobody discovers it until they are already trying to permit a major repair. It bites hardest at Windjammer, Harbortown, Ariel, Longboat, Schooner and Trawler, the villages with the greatest share of buildings in the Special Flood Hazard Area. It does not attach at Clipper Cove, Flagship, Sunset Cove, Sunset Harbor or Steamboat Bend East.

What the Fees Actually Buy, Level by Level

Fee confusion at The Landings comes from one structural fact: there are three layers, and most listings quote only one of them. The club charges a bundled amenity fee that every resident pays. Your village association charges a separate assessment. And a third set of services, notably bulk television, internet and water, is contracted community-wide by the club and then re-billed down to the villages, which is why those items show up inside your village assessment rather than as a separate line.

The club layer

Every resident is a member. The club runs as a real operating business: fiscal year 1 October to 30 September, more than 120 employees, and $12,776,090 of revenue in fiscal 2024. What the club fee funds:

  • The 18-hole executive golf course and a fleet of roughly 40 carts

  • 13 Har-Tru tennis courts, 8 pickleball courts, 3 bocce courts

  • The competition-sized pool, the fitness centre, and 18 stocked lakes

  • The full-service marina, including a rebuilt fuel dock and transient pedestals

  • Two dining venues, the Wheelhouse Grille and the Compass Rose inside the Helm Club, plus banquet facilities

  • Community Patrol, which is a genuine salaried department running roughly $570,000 a year, not a contracted drive-by service

  • Golf Course Maintenance and Property Maintenance as separate departments, plus Administration

  • The member app, the tee-time system, the community magazine and the committee structure

  • The reciprocal programme at roughly 40 other clubs, 1 May to 31 October Note for budgeting: Florida sales tax applies to club dues at 6.5 percent in Lee County.

The village layer

Your association assessment covers the building itself: roofs, elevators, exterior paint and walkways, village pools, village landscaping and irrigation, drainage, tree work, the master property insurance policy, reserves, and where applicable the milestone inspection and structural reserve study obligation. It also carries the re-billed television, internet and water. The bulk television and internet contract is with Comcast Xfinity, fiber to the residence, consolidated community-wide on 1 January 2025 and running through March 2031. Water and sewer are Lee County Utilities, which we confirmed by testing the community’s location against the county’s own franchise service-area boundaries with a positive control. Ariel is the exception that breaks naive fee comparison. Its association additionally supplies air conditioning, building WiFi, an emergency generator, common-area sprinklers, on-site management, four guest suites, and private tennis and shuffleboard. A monthly assessment at Ariel is not comparable to one at Harbortown, because at Ariel it is buying your cooling. And a live, specific negative that no aggregator carries: Flagship Village’s pool is currently out of service. Ask about its status before you buy there.

What you pay directly

Electricity through Florida Power and Light, except for cooling at Ariel. Your HO-3 or HO-6 policy. Flood insurance, where the premium depends entirely on which village you are in. Loss assessment coverage above the statutory $2,000 floor. And the Lee County solid waste line on your tax bill.

On the club’s actual dues figures

The club publishes dues for its non-resident associate categories, which for the club year 1 October 2025 to 30 September 2026 run from $950 for the Associate Dining Club to $2,850 for Associate Family Tennis, before the 6.5 percent tax. Do not read those as the resident fee. They are a different product for people who do not live here, and associate membership is stated in the club’s own document as non-voting, non-transferable and non-refundable. The resident dues figure, any capital contribution, the food and beverage minimum and the resale transfer fee are not published in any record we can verify, and we will not print a number about your money that we cannot stand behind. Recorded declarations at Sunset Cove and Sunset Harbor do confirm the authority to charge a reasonable transfer or processing fee, but no amount appears anywhere. One call to (239) 482-3211 settles all of it, and we make that call for our clients before they go under contract.

One forward-looking item worth knowing: the community’s own magazine told members in autumn 2025 to expect a $1,536 assessment and a dues increase for 2026. That was a forecast to members rather than an adopted figure, and we present it as such.

The Tax Trap Nobody Warns Buyers About

The single most expensive surprise at The Landings has nothing to do with the club. It is that the seller’s Save Our Homes assessment cap does not transfer to you. Assessed value resets on sale, so the tax figure you see on the current owner’s bill can be less than half of what you will actually pay.

The adopted 2025 millage for taxing district 068, Iona McGregor, is 13.4125 mills. There is no CDD and no special district. The non-ad-valorem solid waste line for unincorporated 33919 in Service Area 2 is $348.75 a year for single-family, and a much smaller per-unit charge for multi-family.

Three real properties, three real tax outcomes

These are actual parcels with actual assessed values, showing what the current homesteaded owner pays against what a buyer’s basis would be.

Mariners Cove single-family

Harbortown low-rise condo

Ariel tower condo

Built, heated square feet

1995, 2,136

1981, 2,180

1983, 2,215

2025 just value

$435,312

$374,440

$334,790

Current owner pays

about $4,720

about $1,900

$1,865

Buyer basis at 13.4125 mills

$5,839

$5,022

$4,490

Save Our Homes benefit you do NOT inherit

$43,106

about $181,857

$155,439

Solid waste line

$348.75

$348.75

$18.31

Buildings in the flood hazard area

25%

100%

100%

Milestone and reserve study

Not applicable, HOA

Exempt

Required

Read the Harbortown column carefully. A browsing buyer sees roughly $1,900 of property tax on that unit. The real cost after the homestead resets is $5,022. That is a $3,100 a year swing on one condominium, and it is invisible on every listing portal. At Ariel the bill more than doubles. And a small oddity worth a dollar figure: the county codes solid waste as residential at Harbortown and Longboat but as multi-family at Ariel, which puts roughly $330 a year between them on that line alone, inside the same gate.

Florida’s portability provisions may let you carry some accumulated benefit from a prior Florida homestead. That is worth modeling before you write an offer, and it is a conversation we have with every client buying here.

Rules, Governance and What Is Actually Recorded

The Landings is governed by twelve condominium associations and two homeowners associations inside the gates, plus Riverside Yacht Club Estates adjacent, across seventeen active corporate entities. We read the recorded declarations rather than relying on summaries, and several widely repeated assumptions did not survive that.

It is not age restricted, and that is affirmative not assumed

Ten of the recorded declarations state verbatim that there shall be no minimum-age restriction. This is worth stating precisely, because “not 55 plus” is usually asserted from silence. Here it is written down. The community does skew toward retirees and seasonal residents, which is a demographic pattern rather than a rule, and the club publishes family pool and family tennis categories with children’s provisions.

Pets vary enormously by village

There is no community-wide pet policy. Recorded rules across eleven villages run from no limit at all to a hard 60-pound cap on a single animal. If you have a dog, the village you choose is not a preference, it is a gating decision. Get the current rule in writing for the specific association.

Leasing

Minimum lease terms are recorded for five villages and board approval thresholds for seven more. How many times per year a unit may be leased is genuinely not established in any recorded document we could reach, so if rental frequency matters to your plan, that is a question for the specific association in writing rather than something to assume.

The boat irony

Boats and boat trailers are barred from village parking areas across essentially every association, in a community built around a marina. Storage goes in the marina or off site. There is a kayak rack with 33 spaces at $150 a year, and it runs a waitlist.

Management is mostly off site

Fifteen associations are run by six different management firms, and only one of them has its manager on site. Ten are managed off site and three from outside Lee County. That is not unusual for Florida condominium stock of this era, but it does mean response times and service quality vary by village, and it is a fair question to ask current residents about before choosing.

Security

A single gatehouse controls entry. Community Patrol is a salaried club department, and the community replaced or added thirteen cameras in December 2025. The posted internal limit is 20 miles per hour.

The Seller Question We Get Asked Most

No, you are not required to list your home with any real estate office inside The Landings. Owners ask us this constantly, usually because somebody told them otherwise, so we went and read the recorded declarations rather than repeating an assumption either way. There is no listing restriction anywhere in the record, and the two association powers that people mistake for one are an ordinary right of first refusal and a purchaser approval. We checked this properly because owners ask it constantly and the answer matters. Across twelve recorded declarations, read two independent ways including a falsifiable word search, there is no listing, brokerage or marketing restriction of any kind. Ariel’s 96-page declaration returns zero occurrences of broker, brokerage, realtor or listing. The only sales reservations anywhere in the record belong to the original developer, from the 1991 and 1994 sellouts, and they are long spent.

What the record does impose, and people confuse these with a listing requirement

  • A 30-day right of first refusal held by the association, present in essentially every village.

  • Board approval of the purchaser.- Mandatory club membership running with the deed, which the recorded documents confirm independently of the club’s own marketing. The Ariel mechanism is the one to understand, because its protections run in the seller’s favor: the board must decide within 30 days at a meeting open to members where the seller may be heard, approval “shall not be unreasonably withheld or unreasonably delayed,” the decision may be appealed to the full membership, and if the board does refuse it must within 90 days produce a substitute purchaser on the same terms, with any price arbitration paid for by the association. That is a well-drafted clause and it is worth knowing you have it.

One honest caveat: the master declaration itself remains unread, because three of its four candidate instruments are restricted at the Clerk. The twelve-village finding governs a unit sale and is solid. We flag the gap rather than paper over it.

Schools, Healthcare and Getting Around

The Landings sits in south Fort Myers with unusually strong healthcare access and a school situation that relocating families routinely misunderstand. Lee County does not zone an address to a school. It assigns three zones, and inside each zone parents rank choices on an application that goes to a lottery when demand exceeds seats.

How Lee County school assignment actually works

An address in The Landings resolves to South Zone sub-zone 1 for high school, Proximity Zone O for elementary, and Zone MM for middle. We verified this against the district’s own zone-mapping service using a geocoded community address, cross-checked it against the Board-approved 2026-2027 Student Enrollment Plan, and confirmed the zone holds across eight coordinate points spanning the whole peninsula. There is no split inside the community.

Where applications exceed seats, a ranked preference stack decides: exceptional student education and special programs first, then sibling preference, then Proximity 1, then sibling guarantee, then Proximity 2, then statutory hardship categories. What proximity actually buys, and the part that surprises people: Proximity 1 is a two-mile safe-walk ring. It confers preference only “subject to higher ranked priorities and capacity,” so a sibling-linked applicant still beats it, and it removes district bus service entirely. Proximity 2 reaches further out but exists only for kindergarten through eighth grade. High school has no Proximity 2 at all.### The schools available, with current state grades

Level

Schools

2026 grade and enrolment

Elementary, Zone O

Heights

A, 988

Rayma C. Page

A, 643

Tanglewood

B, 617

Villas

B, 737

Middle, Zone MM

Cypress Lake

A, 790

Lexington

B, 965

High, South Zone 1

Cypress Lake

A, 1,328

Fort Myers

A, 1,760

Dunbar

C, 1,695

South Fort Myers

C, 1,619

Cypress Lake High and Fort Myers High both moved from B to A in 2026, and Heights Elementary did the same. One caution worth carrying: the state grading scale tightens for 2026-2027, moving the high-school A threshold from 65 to 70 percent. Cypress Lake High currently sits at exactly 65 percent, so flat performance could show a lower letter next year through no change at the school.

The real risk for a buyer is timing, not quality. Pre-registration opens the first Monday in November and open enrollment runs in January. Closing in summer and applying late collapses your choice to whatever still has seats.### Private options Canterbury School at 8141 College Parkway is 2.1 road miles away, upper school tuition $34,335. Bishop Verot Catholic High School at 5598 Sunrise Drive is 4.1 miles, $17,495 for 2026-2027. Evangelical Christian School is also in the area. Florida SouthWestern State College is 2.4 miles and Florida Gulf Coast University 14.6 miles.

Healthcare, which is a genuine reason people buy here

Facility

Road miles

HCA Florida West Fort Myers Emergency, freestanding 24-hour ER

1.5

Radiology Regional

1.8

Lee Health Orthopedic Center

2.0

Lee Health Neuroscience Institute

2.0

HealthPark Medical Center, the system’s cardiac anchor

4.5

Gulf Coast Medical Center, Level II trauma centre

5.3

Lee Memorial Hospital

7.2

A 24-hour freestanding emergency room 1.5 miles from your gate, with the region’s cardiac hospital at 4.5 and a Level II trauma centre at 5.3, is a materially strong position for a community whose ownership skews toward retirees. Orthopaedics and neurology both sit inside the community’s own ZIP code.

Distances that matter

Destination

Road miles

Nearest Publix, Southpointe Commons

1.2

The Bell Tower

3.8

Page Field, general aviation

5.4

Downtown Fort Myers river district

7.6

Fort Myers Beach, Times Square

8.4

Sanibel causeway at Punta Rassa

8.8

Cape Coral

11.1

Southwest Florida International Airport

11.8

Gulf Coast Town Center

11.8

Estero

13.5

Coconut Point

14.9

Miromar Outlets

17.0

Bonita Springs

20.2

Naples, Fifth Avenue South

32.8

Punta Gorda Airport

36.3

Page Field at 5.4 miles is worth flagging separately: a general aviation field that close is a real convenience for owners who fly privately, and it is a point in this community’s favor that rarely gets mentioned.

What Is Coming Nearby, Beyond the Bridge

Outside the bridge project, the one-mile pipeline around The Landings is genuinely quiet, and for an established community that is a feature rather than an absence of news. We verified it rather than assuming it: zero pending zoning cases within one mile, confirmed with three positive controls including a radius query that correctly returned cases at wider distances.

What is actually in motion nearby is small: a bank-to-retail conversion on McGregor, a plaza restriping and accessibility upgrade, a small coffee drive-thru, and a permitted use addition. Two projects on the nearest McGregor parcels were withdrawn or abandoned since January 2025.

The one item with real local impact is the Cypress Lake Middle School rebuild at roughly a mile, an $86.6 million project now in construction with substantial completion targeted for February 2027. That means construction traffic in the near term and a new school afterward.

The river, answered calmly

Buyers ask about water quality constantly, and the honest current answer is good. Lake Okeechobee sits in its lowest regulatory band with no releases to the Caloosahatchee, no red tide has been detected in any Lee County sample in 2026, and there is no active blue-green algae advisory. The C-43 Caloosahatchee reservoir project, which is designed to buffer exactly these flows, continues.

That is a snapshot rather than a guarantee, and conditions on this estuary do change between years. We would rather give you the current state with its sources than either alarm you or stay quiet about it.

The Club: Golf, Marina, Tennis and Dining

The Landings Yacht, Golf and Tennis Club owns and operates the community’s entire amenity package, and every resident is a member. The club offers an 18-hole executive golf course, 13 lighted Har-Tru tennis courts, a sports complex with 8 pickleball courts and 3 bocce courts, a competition-sized swimming pool, 18 stocked fishing lakes, two restaurants, and a full-service marina with a private harbor.

The golf course

The course is an 18-hole executive course playing to par 58 and 3,078 yards from the back tee. Par and the full rating set come from the United States Golf Association’s own course rating database and are corroborated exactly by the Florida State Golf Association record. Back-tee course rating and slope are 55.9 and 91 for men, 57.9 and 97 for women. There is a practice range, and the pro shop operates from 4420 Flagship Drive.

The course did not open as eighteen holes. It began as nine and reached its full eighteen in 1979, according to the club’s own published history. You will see both 1972 and 1975 quoted as the opening year elsewhere; neither matches the club’s account, and 1972 is difficult to reconcile with the fact that the community’s founding corporations were not filed until October 1973.

It was redesigned in 2013 by Kipp Schulties Golf Design. The greens are Eagle Tuff Bermuda, and the layout carries 45 bunkers with water in play on 14 of the 18 holes. The original architect is not recorded in any source we could find.

An executive course is a genuine differentiator and buyers should understand what it means rather than reading it as a lesser product. Par 58 means a layout built mostly of par threes and fours: shorter holes, a faster round, and a course far more playable for someone who wants to play four or five times a week into their eighties than a 7,000-yard championship layout would be. For the demographic that buys here that is frequently the feature rather than the compromise. If championship-length golf is your primary game, have that conversation before you buy, because the bundled fee funds this course whether you play it or not.

Members also have access to a reciprocal programme with roughly 40 other clubs, running from 1 May to 31 October when the club’s own course goes through its phased annual maintenance.

The marina and the harbor

The marina is full service, sited on a private harbor, and it is the amenity that most distinguishes The Landings from the rest of the Fort Myers golf-community market. Very few communities in Lee County own both a golf course and a marina, and that combination is the core of the community’s identity and a material part of its resale story.

It holds 192 slips, a figure confirmed twice from independent federal and state permit records seven months apart. The controlling depth is 5.0 feet at mean low water across both the basin and the entrance channel, maintained through dredging cycles in 2012, 2022 and 2026. A 2022 permit documents the conversion from fixed finger piers to nine floating docks.

The tenure is unusual and it favors residents. The basin is privately owned submerged land, and the entrance channel runs under a recorded state easement granted in 1999. There is no submerged-lands lease, which removes a renewal risk that affects a number of other Florida marinas. Separately, and almost nowhere else documented: Riverside Marina offers 36 deeded, privately owned slips accommodating vessels to 50 feet, and they are purchasable by any Landings resident. If you want a slip you own outright rather than one you are assigned, that is a genuine and unusual option here.

Maximum vessel length and beam for the main marina, the slip tenure model, whether a slip conveys with a home sale, and waitlist status remain unpublished. The marina is reachable through the club at (239) 482-3211, and if you are buying here with a boat that is the first call to make.

Boating access, and yes, it is bridge-free to the Gulf

This is the question every boating buyer asks about The Landings, and it now has a properly sourced answer rather than a repeated claim. There is no bridge between The Landings and open Gulf water. The community sits on the south shore of the Caloosahatchee downstream, meaning west, of the Cape Coral Bridge, so that bridge is not on the route out. Federal regulations governing drawbridges list no drawbridge on the Caloosahatchee below LaBelle and none on San Carlos Bay. The NOAA United States Coast Pilot places every named crossing on this river, the Cape Coral Bridge at 55 feet, the Edison Bridge at 56 feet and the US 41 bridge at 55 feet, upstream of the community and off the Gulf-bound route.

The Sanibel Causeway crosses the bay toward Sanibel rather than lying across the path to open water, and its main channel span is a fixed 70 feet in any case.

So the route runs west down the Caloosahatchee into San Carlos Bay and out, with no fixed crossing to duck and no bascule to wait on. For a sailboat owner or anyone running a flybridge, that is the whole ballgame, and it is a large part of why this community prices the way it does.

We spent real effort on this one. Every source repeating “no bridges” traced to a listing site or a competing brokerage, which we will not cite. The answer above comes from federal navigation regulations and NOAA’s own Coast Pilot.

Tennis, pickleball and bocce

13 well-lit Har-Tru tennis courts, a figure that comes directly from the club and supersedes the “11 clay courts” that circulates on third-party sites. Har-Tru is a soft green clay surface, materially easier on knees and hips than hard court, which is a real consideration for the players who use these courts most.

The sports complex adds 8 pickleball courts and 3 bocce courts. Eight dedicated pickleball courts is a serious commitment rather than a couple of lines painted onto a tennis court, and in a Southwest Florida community in 2026 the pickleball facility is often the amenity that actually gets used hardest.

Pools, lakes and grounds

There is a competition-sized swimming pool, and 18 stocked fishing lakes distributed through the community. The stocked lakes are an unusual amenity at this scale and they do a great deal of quiet work for the community’s landscape character, which is mature and heavily planted rather than newly delivered.

Dining and the Helm Club

The club operates two restaurants. The Wheelhouse Grille was completely rebuilt after Hurricane Ian damage. The Taeping Room flooded in the same storm and has been rebuilt. The Helm Club provides the community’s social heart, including a library and lobby, and Picnic Pointe offers an outdoor gathering space.

The club is also an established wedding and banquet venue, which is worth knowing as a resident because it means the facilities are maintained to a standard beyond what a purely residential clubhouse typically justifies.

The 14 Villages, One by One

The Landings is organized into 14 named villages inside the gates, governed by twelve condominium associations and two homeowners associations, with the adjacent Riverside Yacht Club Estates operating its own homeowners association. Product, era, height, flood exposure and structural obligation vary substantially between them, and choosing the right village matters more here than choosing the right floor plan.

Ariel

The community’s landmark: a single 18-story tower built in 1983 holding 135 units. Every building sits in the Special Flood Hazard Area. It carries a milestone and reserve study obligation, and it completed a roughly $5.5 million post-Ian hardening program covering approximately 51,000 square feet of glass across 563 openings rated to 175 mph, plus a full roof replacement and a new fire pump. That program cut its insurance cost by roughly $400,000 a year. If you want river views at height, this is the only address in the community that delivers them.

We have written Ariel up on its own: the full Ariel at The Landings guide, with the floor count, the assessments and the flood picture in detail.

Windjammer Village

The largest association by building count with 35 buildings, and 100 percent of them sit in the Special Flood Hazard Area. Four buildings reach three stories or more and carry the milestone and reserve study obligation; the remainder are one to two stories. Windjammer is among the oldest parts of the community, with recorded declarations dating to the mid 1970s.

Harbortown at The Landings

29 buildings, every one of them in the Special Flood Hazard Area, and every one of them one or two stories. That combination is worth understanding precisely: maximum flood-insurance exposure, zero milestone and reserve study obligation. Harbortown is a clean illustration of why the two risks have to be assessed separately rather than bundled into a general impression of a building’s age.

Longboat Village

44 buildings, 93 percent in the Special Flood Hazard Area, and entirely exempt from the milestone requirement because every building is one or two stories. One of the larger and more affordable entry points into the community.

Schooner Village

15 buildings, 93 percent in the Special Flood Hazard Area, fully exempt from milestone and reserve study obligations. Similar profile to Longboat at smaller scale.

Trawler Village

Seven buildings, three of them four stories, 86 percent in the Special Flood Hazard Area. Trawler is the compliance standout: it has completed both its milestone inspection and its Structural Integrity Reserve Study, with stairwell and stair-tread remediation running 2025 into 2026. It also replaced flat roofs after Ian. For a buyer who has been reading about Florida condominium assessments with alarm, a village that has already done the work and documented it is a materially safer purchase.

Trawler Village has its own page: our full Trawler Village guide, with the inspection record, the fees and current market data.

Steamboat Bend and Steamboat Bend East

Two separate associations with quite different risk profiles. Steamboat Bend has six buildings, three of them three stories or more, and 67 percent sit in the Special Flood Hazard Area. Steamboat Bend East has five buildings, four of them three stories or more, and not one is in the Special Flood Hazard Area. Steamboat Bend East has also passed its milestone inspection. Two adjacent villages, nearly identical names, and completely different flood profiles. This is the clearest single example of why a community-level flood answer is useless here.

Steamboat Bend East has its own page: our full Steamboat Bend East guide, with the building-by-building flood detail and the inspection record.

Flagship Village

Five buildings, three at three stories or more, and zero percent in the Special Flood Hazard Area. Flagship carries the milestone obligation but sits entirely outside the mapped high-hazard area, which is an unusual and favorable combination.

Clipper Cove Village

Three buildings, one at three stories or more, zero percent in the Special Flood Hazard Area.

Sunset Cove

Two buildings at three stories, zero percent in the Special Flood Hazard Area. Sunset Cove carries the one genuinely unresolved compliance question in the community: if its ground level is parking or storage rather than habitable space, the habitable-stories test may render both buildings exempt. Settle this in writing with the association before your inspection period closes.

Sunset Harbor

Two buildings, zero percent in the Special Flood Hazard Area, milestone obligation applies, with a deadline falling in the 2025 to 2026 window. Among the newest construction in the community, built in the mid 1990s.

Mariners Cove Village

A single-family homeowners association, not a condominium, so the milestone and reserve study statute does not apply at all. Only 25 percent of buildings sit in the Special Flood Hazard Area. Mariners Cove was one of only two areas inside the gates to be formally platted. It also accounts for six of the community’s 22 individual flood map amendments, four of them filed in 2026, which suggests active owner engagement with elevation determinations.

Lighthouse Village

The other platted area, a single-family homeowners association with the lowest flood exposure inside the gates at 18 percent. Lighthouse Village holds the community’s single remaining vacant residential lot. Outside the milestone statute entirely.

Riverside Yacht Club Estates

Adjacent rather than inside the gates, with its own homeowners association, 85 built single-family homes and one vacant lot. Roughly 51 percent sit in the Special Flood Hazard Area. Three of its houses are three stories, but the milestone statute does not attach to single-family homeowners association ownership.

The Cape Coral Bridge Project and What Changes Next Door

Lee County is replacing the Cape Coral Bridge, and one segment of that project runs directly alongside The Landings golf course. Lee County DOT put the cost at $547.9 million at the March 2026 Board of County Commissioners work session, design reached 90 percent that same month, and the county states that construction is expected to begin in 2028. This is the most significant change coming to the community’s boundary, and almost nothing else written about The Landings mentions it at all.

A warning about the figures you will see elsewhere

If you research this yourself you will find “$185 million” and “construction begins in 2026” repeated widely. Both are stale. They come from the project’s own Frequently Asked Questions page, which has not been updated while the rest of the same project site has. The current figures come from Lee County DOT’s March 2026 commission presentation, the county’s own press release, and the Preliminary Engineering Report. We flag this because it is exactly the kind of thing that gets copied from page to page without anyone checking the date.

What is being built

The existing westbound span opened in 1964 as the only bridge to Cape Coral, carrying traffic in both directions. The eastbound span was added in 1989, creating the current four-lane crossing. Age, condition and escalating maintenance costs are driving the replacement.

The two new bridges will each carry three lanes plus a shared-use path, adding a travel lane in each direction and separating pedestrians and cyclists from traffic. The new span carries decorative color-changing lighting on the piers and walkways, which also improves visibility for boaters passing beneath.

The real schedule, as of September 2026

The project is in design, not construction. The published delivery schedule runs through a January 2028 letting date, at which point the construction contract is awarded.

Period

Stage

August to November 2026

Design Phase III, the current position

January to February 2027

Design Phase IV

April to May 2027

Final plans

July to December 2027

Procurement

January 2028

Board approval and letting, construction follows

Right-of-way acquisition runs to roughly mid 2027 and permitting to roughly October 2026. On 1 September 2026 the commission approved a $4.66 million design change order applying state DRIVE cost principles, intended to cut more than $40 million from construction cost while holding the January 2028 letting. There are no bridge-related lane closures in effect today. Current county roadwork on this corridor is striping and pathway maintenance.

The section that touches The Landings

The project is divided into five sections. Section 4, College Parkway and the toll plaza, is the one that runs adjacent to Magnolia Pointe Court, Caloosa Yacht and Racquet Club Drive, and The Landings golf course. Improvements include additional eastbound and westbound lanes, conversion of the existing two-lane frontage roads into one-way frontage roads, and a new two-lane westbound on-ramp onto College Parkway.

The change that will actually affect daily life here

Not the noise. The frontage roads become one-way, running counterclockwise. In practice that means a Landings resident heading to Cape Coral will drive east and U-turn beneath the bridge rather than turning directly. That is a permanent change to how you leave the neighborhood, and it is the detail worth understanding before you buy, far more than the headline cost.

The toll plaza at 10100 College Parkway, effectively at the community’s doorstep, is demolished and replaced by an all-electronic overhead gantry during the first construction phase.

What the project documents actually promise, and what they do not

We want to be precise here, because a claim gets repeated about this project that we could not support. Some summaries state that avoiding impacts to The Landings golf course was an explicit project objective. We could not find that objective in any project document, so we are not going to assert it.

What the documents do support is better, because it is measured rather than aspirational:

  • Zero residential relocations and zero business relocations across the entire project.

  • Right-of-way acquisition does include roughly 0.3 acres along McGregor Boulevard, touching five parcels. Bernice Braden Park on the Cape Coral side is not the only land taken, which is the other claim in circulation that does not hold up.

  • The project’s Noise Study models 21 named receptors inside The Landings, and every one of them returns a negative on the federal noise impact criteria. The largest modeled increase anywhere in the community is 2.0 decibels on the golf course itself and 0.6 decibels at a residence. A 0.6 decibel change is below what a person can reliably perceive.

  • Four lanes stay open throughout construction, posted speeds drop to 45 then 40 miles per hour, and single lane closures are permitted only at night.### How to read this if you are buying

Honestly: a half-billion-dollar infrastructure project immediately adjacent to the community is a real consideration, and anyone who waves it away is selling. From 2028 there will be years of construction next door, and the frontage-road change is permanent.

The other side is equally real and it is unusually well documented. No home here is being taken. No business is being relocated. The modeled noise impact at every one of 21 receptors inside the community is negative on the federal test. Four lanes stay open, and lane closures are night-only. The finished product is a wider, safer, better-lit crossing with dedicated pedestrian and bicycle facilities, replacing a 1964 structure at the end of its service life. Infrastructure that improves permanently in exchange for temporary disruption has historically supported adjacent values rather than hurt them.

History: From Gladiolus Farm to Gated Community

The Landings was conceived in 1972 and 1973 by J. Foster Pate and Werner Hoffmann on farmland in the Iona district of Lee County, and both of its founding corporations were filed on the same day, 25 October 1973. The land had been a working gladiolus farm, in the district that made Fort Myers a national center of the cut-flower industry from the 1930s.

The flower farm, corrected

The community’s own long-standing description claims the site was “200 acres of one of the nation’s most productive flower farms.” We went looking for the source of that superlative and could not find one anywhere.

What we can support is better than a superlative because it is specific and true. The Landings’ own community magazine, published under the club’s masthead and therefore a first-party record, states the site was a productive 207-acre gladiolus farm owned by Jack Shanklin when Pate and Hoffmann planned the community in 1973. The community sits inside the Iona McGregor district, and Iona was the literal core of the industry that made Fort Myers the gladiolus capital of the world from 1935. That is a genuinely good story and it does not need embellishment.

The longer chain of the land runs from Dr. Franklin Miles, who acquired it from 1906, through the Sutphin family who farmed it in the 1930s and 1940s, to Shanklin’s gladiolus operation, and then to Pate and Hoffmann in 1973.

Developer and corporate lineage

Two corporations were filed on 25 October 1973 with consecutive document numbers: the club, which remains active today, and a maintenance association that was merged out in December 1989. The corporate developer behind the project was USLIFE Realty Corporation of Florida, filed in August 1974 and headquartered at 125 Maiden Lane, New York, established through officer overlap between USLIFE Realty and the Landings maintenance association.

Development passed from Pate and Hoffmann to USLIFE, then to O.J. Buigas in 1989 and 1990, with the amenities later held by George Severson.

The 2002 member buyout

The defining event in the community’s governance history is the members’ purchase of the amenities. In 2002 the membership bought the club facilities for exactly $7,950,000, recorded in the Lee County official records on 30 June and 3 July 2002. The same 76.31-acre golf parcel had sold for $3,500,000 in 1989.

That transaction is why The Landings works the way it does today. The residents own their own amenities outright. There is no third-party club owner extracting a return, no developer-controlled membership program, and no risk of the golf course being sold to a developer, which has happened to a number of Southwest Florida communities and has been financially devastating for owners when it does.

Build-out

Construction ran from 1973 to 2000. The first units were delivered in 1973 and 1974, with phases through 1983, a completion spike in 1986, a gap between 1987 and 1990 straddling the developer transition, and a final Buigas-era phase from 1991 to 2000.

There is no base Landings subdivision plat. The community was built as condominiums on unplatted metes-and-bounds land, and only Lighthouse Village and Mariner’s Cove were formally platted. One village that was planned was never built: a club-owned parcel still carries a legal description reserving land for a Whale Harbor Village that does not exist.

Schools, Healthcare and Getting Around

The Landings sits in south Fort Myers with strong access to Lee Health facilities, Page Field for general aviation, and the Sanibel causeway. Lee County operates a student assignment model rather than simple address-based zoning, so families should understand the choice process rather than assuming an address guarantees a school.

How Lee County school assignment actually works

Lee County does not simply zone an address to one school. It operates a student assignment model in which families rank preferences within an assignment zone and seats are allocated through a process that weighs proximity among other factors. Proximity improves your odds; it does not guarantee a seat.

For relocating families this is genuinely different from most of the country and it needs to be researched against the current year’s process rather than assumed. Confirm the current zone, the application window and the preference rules with the Lee County School District directly before you make a purchase decision that depends on a specific school.

Private options

South Fort Myers has a concentrated set of private schools, including Canterbury School, Bishop Verot Catholic High School and Evangelical Christian School. Confirm current tuition and grade ranges directly with each school.

Healthcare

Lee Health anchors healthcare across the county, and The Landings is well positioned relative to it. HealthPark Medical Center is the nearest major hospital campus, with Gulf Coast Medical Center also serving the area. For a community whose ownership skews toward retirees and seasonal residents, hospital proximity is a genuine purchase driver rather than a box to tick, and this location performs well on it.

Getting around

Page Field, the general aviation airport, is unusually close, which matters to owners who fly privately. Southwest Florida International Airport serves commercial traffic. The Sanibel causeway, Fort Myers Beach, the Bell Tower shops and the downtown Fort Myers river district are all straightforward drives.

We are not going to publish a table of precise drive times we did not measure. Distances vary enormously here by season, and a number presented to the minute implies a precision that seasonal traffic does not support.

Buying at The Landings

Buying well at The Landings means choosing the village before you choose the unit. Flood exposure, insurance cost, structural inspection obligation and association assessment all vary by village, and two comparable-looking units can carry very different total costs. The right sequence is to decide which risk and cost profile suits you, then shop inside it.

The questions to ask on every unit

Ask which village and which association. Ask whether the building is in the Special Flood Hazard Area and request the flood determination. Ask whether the association is subject to milestone inspection and reserve study requirements and, if so, what its status is. Ask for the current assessment, the reserve funding level, and any approved or discussed special assessment. Ask what the club fee is currently and what the transfer fee will be at closing.

Financing a condominium here

Condominium financing in Florida has tightened considerably. Lenders examine reserve funding, deferred maintenance, litigation and the completion status of structural inspections, and a building can be judged non-warrantable, which restricts your financing options and your eventual buyer pool. A village that has completed its milestone inspection and reserve study is meaningfully easier to finance than one that has not, which is another reason the compliance table above is a buying tool rather than trivia.

Work with us

Read how we represent buyers in Southwest Florida, or call Marc Comisar at (239) 287-5873. We will pull the village-level facts before you tour rather than after you are under contract, and if the answer is that The Landings is not the right fit for what you want, we will tell you that too.

Downloadable Documents

The records behind this page are public, and we link each one to its official source rather than to a copy we host. If you are evaluating a specific unit, these are the primary records to pull for yourself.

Document

What it tells you

Where to get it

FEMA flood map for your exact address

The governing flood zone and Base Flood Elevation for the specific building, not the community average. The panel covering The Landings is 12071C0416G, effective 17 November 2022

FEMA Flood Map Service Center address search

Lee County property record and building characteristics

Parcel detail, building stories, year built, ownership and permit history

Lee County Property Appraiser

Recorded declarations, bylaws and amendments

The binding rules for your association, including leasing, pets and assessments

Lee County Clerk official records

Association and club corporate filings

Legal entity status, officers, directors and registered agent for the club and each association

Florida Division of Corporations

Lee County flood information and Community Rating System discount

Confirms the 25 percent NFIP premium discount and community identification number 125124

Lee County flood information

Cape Coral Bridge Project documents and schedule

The design, section plans, right-of-way and current construction schedule for the project adjacent to the golf course

Cape Coral Bridge Project documents

Lee County school assignment information

Current attendance zones, the choice application window and preference rules

Lee County School District

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Our track record and how we talk about it

We are Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008, and we hold the 5 Star Award for Customer Satisfaction for 20 Straight Years, an award given to only 5 out of 21k+ Licensees by Gulfshore Life Magazine. McGreevy and Comisar and their Domain Realty Group team have sold over $2.5 Billion in Real Estate, and McGreevy and Comisar alone have over $900 million in Sales.

When we quote a number about your community, we tell you where it came from. In the last 12 months we tracked closings across Lee and Collier County at the village and product level rather than the community level, because that is the only resolution at which a Landings valuation is meaningful. Where we represented the buyer or the seller in a specific village here, we will tell you which side we were on and what the outcome was.

Where to find us

You can read about our team and how we work, or go straight to Jesse McGreevy’s agent profile and Marc Comisar’s agent profile. Our full team, our listings and our buyer resources live at Domain Realty Group.

McGreevy and Comisar are licensed Florida real estate professionals regulated by the Florida Real Estate Commission (FREC), brokered by Domain Realty. Our office is at 24031 S Tamiami Trl #101, Bonita Springs, FL 34134. Reach Jesse McGreevy at (239) 898-6072 and Marc Comisar at (239) 287-5873.

Why homeowners here call us first

The Landings is a community where the general-purpose agent is at a real disadvantage, because the questions that decide a deal are technical and village-specific. Knowing that Steamboat Bend East sits entirely outside the flood hazard area while Steamboat Bend next door is two thirds inside it, or that Trawler has already completed the inspection cycle that buyers are nervous about everywhere else in Florida, is the difference between defending your price and discounting it.

That is the work. If you are thinking about selling, call Jesse at (239) 898-6072. If you are buying, call Marc at (239) 287-5873. Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008.

What Our Clients Say

Jesse McGreevy and Marc Comisar are top-reviewed Fort Myers realtors. You can read every review on our Google Business Profile.

★★★★★ “Jesse was very professional, helpful and kept in touch with ideas and suggestions which developed into a sale. Highly recommend his company for their excellent follow through.” Verified Google review

★★★★★ “Marc was extremely helpful in the sale of our old home and getting our new home to the condition that we wanted it to make it ours. He has been available to us for every step of our journey, even after the transaction closed.” Verified Google review

Frequently Asked Questions

Is club membership mandatory at The Landings?

Yes. The Landings is a fully bundled community and the club states that every resident is considered a member with an equal interest in the community. You cannot buy here and decline the amenity fee. This is a genuine structural difference from communities where social and golf memberships are optional purchases.

What are the HOA fees at The Landings?

You pay two separate fees: the club amenity fee that every resident pays, and your own condominium or homeowners association assessment, which varies by village. Because the product ranges from one-story villas to a 18-story tower, the association side of that stack varies widely. We build the exact figure per unit rather than quoting a community average.

Why do listings show wildly different fee numbers for The Landings?

Because listings frequently quote only one of the two fees, or combine them inconsistently. A listing showing a low monthly figure may be quoting only the association assessment and omitting the club fee entirely. Always confirm which fees a stated number includes.

What flood zone is The Landings in?

There is no single answer, and that is the most important thing to know about this community. Flood exposure runs from 100 percent of buildings inside a FEMA Special Flood Hazard Area in Windjammer, Harbortown and Ariel, down to zero percent in Steamboat Bend East, Sunset Cove, Sunset Harbor, Flagship and Clipper Cove. Where the hazard area applies it is Zone AE with a Base Flood Elevation of 8 feet NAVD88.

Is flood insurance required at The Landings?

It depends on your building and your financing. If your building sits in the Special Flood Hazard Area and you use a federally backed mortgage, flood insurance is mandatory. If it sits outside, it is not federally required, though it remains available and is often still sensible.

Does Lee County offer a flood insurance discount?

Yes. Unincorporated Lee County participates in the National Flood Insurance Program Community Rating System and carries a 25 percent premium discount applied automatically. Confirm community identification number 125124 appears on your policy.

How badly was The Landings damaged by Hurricane Ian?

The community sustained real, documented damage and has been repaired. The clearest record is at Ariel, which completed a roughly $5.5 million program covering approximately 51,000 square feet of glass across 563 openings rated to 175 mph, a full roof replacement and a new fire pump. The Wheelhouse Grille was completely rebuilt and the Taeping Room flooded and was rebuilt. Insurance proceeds covered the Ariel repairs.

Was the marina damaged by Hurricane Ian?

Damage to the marina’s A dock is often attributed to Ian but occurred in autumn 2024 from Helene and Milton, two years later. Getting the storm right matters when you are assessing how the community has performed across multiple events.

Have The Landings condo buildings passed milestone inspection?

The obligation is mixed and the answer is per association. Twenty-three buildings across nine of the twelve condominium associations are subject to the milestone and reserve study requirement. Trawler Village has completed both its milestone inspection and its reserve study. Steamboat Bend East has passed its milestone inspection. Harbortown, Longboat and Schooner are entirely exempt because every building is one or two stories.

Which Landings associations are exempt from SIRS requirements?

Harbortown at The Landings, Longboat Village and Schooner Village are fully exempt, covering 188 units, because all of their buildings are one or two stories. Mariners Cove, Lighthouse Village and Riverside Yacht Club Estates sit outside the statute entirely because they are homeowners associations rather than condominiums.

Are there special assessments at The Landings?

We found no documented special assessment tied to the completed milestone inspections at Trawler Village or Steamboat Bend East, and we ran a positive control on that search. Assessment status changes, so request the current budget, reserve funding level and the last twelve months of board minutes for any specific association before you buy.

Is The Landings age restricted or 55 plus?

No, and this is affirmative rather than assumed from silence. Ten of the recorded declarations state verbatim that there shall be no minimum-age restriction. The club also publishes family pool and family tennis categories with children’s provisions. Ownership does skew toward retirees and seasonal residents, which is a demographic pattern rather than a rule.

Can I keep a boat or boat trailer at my home here?

No. Boats and boat trailers are barred from village parking areas across essentially every association, which surprises people in a community built around a marina. Boats go in the marina or into off-site storage. There is a kayak rack with 33 spaces at $150 a year, and it runs a waitlist.

Who provides cable, internet and water at The Landings?

Bulk television and internet are Comcast Xfinity, fiber to the residence, consolidated community-wide on 1 January 2025 and contracted through March 2031. Water and sewer are Lee County Utilities. Both are paid community-wide by the club and re-billed down to the villages, which is why they sit inside your village assessment rather than appearing as separate bills. That re-billing structure is the single biggest source of fee confusion here.

Does The Landings have a golf course?

Yes, an 18-hole executive course measuring 3,078 yards from the back tee, owned by the club and included in the bundled amenity fee. There is a practice range and a pro shop.

Is the golf at The Landings an executive or a regulation course?

It is an executive course playing to par 58 over 3,078 yards from the back tee, confirmed from the United States Golf Association’s own course rating database and corroborated exactly by the Florida State Golf Association record. Back-tee rating and slope are 55.9 and 91 for men, 57.9 and 97 for women. That means shorter holes and a faster round, which many residents consider the feature rather than a compromise. If championship-length golf is your primary game, discuss it before you buy, because the bundled fee funds this course whether you play it or not.

When did The Landings golf course open, and who designed it?

It opened as nine holes and reached its full eighteen in 1979, per the club’s own published history. Both 1972 and 1975 circulate online and neither matches the club’s account; 1972 is also hard to square with the community’s founding corporations not being filed until October 1973. The course was redesigned in 2013 by Kipp Schulties Golf Design. Greens are Eagle Tuff, with 45 bunkers and water in play on 14 of the 18 holes. The original architect is not recorded in any source we could find.

How many tennis courts does The Landings have?

Thirteen well-lit Har-Tru courts, according to the club. Har-Tru is a soft green clay surface that is considerably easier on joints than hard court. Third-party sources listing eleven clay courts are out of date.

Does The Landings have pickleball?

Yes. The sports complex has eight dedicated pickleball courts along with three bocce courts. Eight dedicated courts is a substantial commitment rather than lines painted onto tennis courts.

Does The Landings have a marina?

Yes, a full-service marina on a private harbor, owned by the club. The Landings is one of very few Lee County communities that owns both a golf course and a marina, and that combination is central to its identity and its resale story.

Is The Landings direct Gulf access with no bridges?

Yes, and it is now properly sourced rather than repeated. There is no bridge between The Landings and open Gulf water. The community sits on the south shore of the Caloosahatchee downstream, meaning west, of the Cape Coral Bridge, so that crossing is not on the route out. Federal drawbridge regulations list no drawbridge on the Caloosahatchee below LaBelle and none on San Carlos Bay, and NOAA’s United States Coast Pilot places every named crossing on this river, the Cape Coral at 55 feet, the Edison at 56 feet and US 41 at 55 feet, upstream of the community and off the Gulf-bound route. The Sanibel Causeway crosses toward Sanibel rather than lying across the path, and its main channel span is a fixed 70 feet regardless. For a sailboat or a flybridge owner that is the whole ballgame.

How many boat slips does The Landings marina have?

192 slips, confirmed twice from independent federal and state permit records seven months apart. Controlling depth is 5.0 feet at mean low water in both the basin and the entrance channel, maintained through dredging in 2012, 2022 and 2026. A 2022 permit documents conversion from fixed finger piers to nine floating docks. The basin is privately owned submerged land with the entrance channel under a recorded 1999 state easement, so there is no submerged-lands lease renewal risk.

Can I buy a boat slip at The Landings rather than rent one?

Yes, and this is one of the least-known facts about the community. Riverside Marina offers 36 deeded, privately owned slips accommodating vessels to 50 feet, purchasable by any Landings resident. Maximum vessel dimensions for the main marina, its tenure model, whether a slip conveys with a home sale, and waitlist status are not published. The marina is reachable through the club at (239) 482-3211.

How many homes are in The Landings?

Roughly 1,127 built residences inside the gates, and approximately 1,212 counting the adjacent Riverside Yacht Club Estates, which has its own homeowners association. The commonly repeated figure of 1,200 is defensible only on the community-wide reading.

How big is The Landings?

The club describes the community as roughly 250 acres. Lee County GIS measures the platted Landings subdivision polygon at 200.13 acres. Both figures are correct; they draw the boundary in different places.

Is The Landings in the City of Fort Myers?

No. Despite the Fort Myers mailing address, The Landings sits in unincorporated Lee County within the Iona McGregor Fire District. This determines your millage rate, your permitting authority and your flood insurance rating community.

When was The Landings built?

Construction ran from 1973 to 2000. The community was conceived by J. Foster Pate and Werner Hoffmann in 1972 and 1973, and both founding corporations were filed on 25 October 1973. There has been no new construction since 2000 and one vacant residential lot remains inside the gates.

Was The Landings really built on a flower farm?

Substantially yes. The community’s own magazine records that the site was a productive 207-acre gladiolus farm when the community was planned in 1973, and it sits in the Iona district that made Fort Myers a national center of the cut-flower industry from 1935. The frequently repeated claim that it was “one of the nation’s most productive flower farms” has no source we could find, and we do not repeat it.

Who owns the amenities at The Landings?

The members do. In 2002 the membership purchased the club facilities from the developer for exactly $7,950,000, recorded in the Lee County official records. That is why there is no third-party club owner extracting a return and no risk of the golf course being sold to a developer, which has happened to other Southwest Florida communities with severe consequences for owners.

What is happening with the Cape Coral Bridge next to The Landings?

Lee County is replacing it at a cost Lee County DOT put at $547.9 million in March 2026. The project is in design at 90 percent, and construction is expected to begin in 2028 with the contract letting targeted for January 2028. Section 4 runs adjacent to The Landings golf course. Widely circulated figures of $185 million and a 2026 construction start are stale, taken from the project’s own Frequently Asked Questions page which has not kept pace with the rest of the project site.

Will the bridge construction affect my home?

The project documents are unusually specific and mostly reassuring. There are zero residential relocations and zero business relocations across the whole project. The Noise Study models 21 named receptors inside The Landings and every one returns a negative on the federal noise criteria, with the largest modeled increase being 2.0 decibels on the golf course and 0.6 decibels at a home, which is below reliable human perception. Four lanes stay open throughout construction and lane closures are permitted only at night. Right-of-way acquisition does include roughly 0.3 acres along McGregor Boulevard touching five parcels, so the claim you will see that Bernice Braden Park is the only land taken is not accurate.

How will the bridge project change getting in and out?

This is the part that actually matters day to day and it is almost never mentioned. The frontage roads become one-way, running counterclockwise. A resident heading toward Cape Coral will drive east and U-turn beneath the bridge rather than turning directly. The toll plaza at 10100 College Parkway is also demolished and replaced by an all-electronic gantry. Those are permanent changes to your route, not temporary construction detours.

Are there bridge lane closures right now?

No. As of September 2026 there are no bridge-related lane closures on this corridor. Current county roadwork nearby is striping and pathway maintenance. Construction is not expected to start until 2028.

Will the bridge project affect my property value?

Honestly, a half-billion-dollar project next door brings real disruption from 2028 onward, and the one-way frontage road change is permanent. The other side is equally real and well documented: no home taken, no business relocated, negative noise findings at all 21 modeled receptors inside the community, and a finished crossing that is wider, safer and better lit with dedicated pedestrian and bicycle facilities replacing a 1964 structure at the end of its life. Infrastructure that improves permanently in exchange for temporary disruption has historically supported adjacent values rather than hurt them.

Can I rent out my home at The Landings?

Leasing rules are set at the association level and differ by village, including minimum lease term and how many times per year a unit may be leased. Confirm the specific restrictions for the village you are considering by reading its recorded declaration and current rules before you buy, particularly if rental income is part of your plan.

What is the pet policy at The Landings?

Pet rules including any weight limit are set per association and vary by village. Confirm in writing for the specific village rather than relying on a community-wide answer.

Can I get a mortgage on a condo at The Landings?

Condominium financing in Florida has tightened. Lenders examine reserve funding, deferred maintenance, litigation and structural inspection completion, and a building can be judged non-warrantable, which limits your financing options and your future buyer pool. Associations that have completed their milestone inspection and reserve study are meaningfully easier to finance.

Will my property taxes go up after I buy at The Landings?

Very likely, yes. The seller’s Save Our Homes assessment cap does not transfer. Assessed value resets on sale, so the tax figure on the current owner’s bill is often well below what you will pay. Florida portability may let you carry some benefit from a prior Florida homestead, which is worth modeling before you write an offer.

What schools serve The Landings?

Lee County operates a student assignment model rather than simple address-based zoning, so proximity improves your odds of a given school but does not guarantee a seat. Confirm the current zone, application window and preference rules with the Lee County School District directly. South Fort Myers also has a concentrated set of private options.

Where is the nearest hospital to The Landings?

HealthPark Medical Center is the nearest major Lee Health campus, with Gulf Coast Medical Center also serving the area. For a community whose ownership skews toward retirees and seasonal residents, hospital proximity is a genuine purchase driver.

How long do homes take to sell at The Landings?

That varies substantially by village and product type, and a community-wide average is misleading here. Ask us for the current days on market and sale-to-list ratio for your specific village and product rather than for the gate as a whole.

Do I have to use the real estate office inside The Landings to sell my home?

No. We read twelve recorded declarations two independent ways, including a falsifiable word search, and there is no listing, brokerage or marketing restriction of any kind. Ariel’s 96-page declaration returns zero occurrences of broker, brokerage, realtor or listing. The only sales reservations in the record belong to the original developer from the 1991 and 1994 sellouts and are long spent. What the record does impose, and what people confuse with a listing requirement, is a 30-day association right of first refusal, board approval of the purchaser, and mandatory club membership running with the deed.

What is the association’s right of first refusal, and should it worry me?

It should not, and at Ariel the clause actually protects you. The board must decide within 30 days at a meeting open to members where the seller may be heard, approval “shall not be unreasonably withheld or unreasonably delayed,” the decision may be appealed to the full membership, and if the board does refuse it must within 90 days produce a substitute purchaser on the same terms, with any price arbitration paid for by the association. Build the 30-day window into your timeline and it is a non-event.

Why is my online home value estimate wrong for The Landings?

Automated estimates average across a whole community and cannot see the things that actually drive value here: which village, whether the building sits in a Special Flood Hazard Area, whether the association has completed its structural inspection, and what the current assessment is. In a community this internally varied, an algorithm working from a gate-wide average will be wrong in both directions.

Who is the best realtor for The Landings?

McGreevy and Comisar. We lead Domain Realty Group, the #1 real estate team in Southwest Florida since 2012, Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008, with over $2.5 Billion sold as a team and over $900 million in personal sales. We price Landings homes on village-level facts rather than gate-wide averages. Call Jesse at (239) 898-6072 to sell, or Marc at (239) 287-5873 to buy.

Work With McGreevy and Comisar

The Landings rewards precision. The difference between a good outcome and a mediocre one here usually comes down to knowing which village you are actually in, what that means for insurance and assessments, and how to argue it to the other side of the table. Selling your Landings home? Start with our Fort Myers home valuation tool or call Jesse McGreevy direct at (239) 898-6072. Buying at The Landings? Read how we represent buyers in Southwest Florida or call Marc Comisar at (239) 287-5873.

McGreevy and Comisar, Domain Realty Group. Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008. #1 Team in Southwest Florida since 2012. Over $2.5 Billion in Real Estate sold as a team and over $900 million in personal sales. 24031 S Tamiami Trl #101, Bonita Springs, FL 34134.

Sources

Every factual claim on this page traces to a primary or authoritative source. Market figures come from county records and the Southwest Florida MLS. We do not cite listing aggregators or competing brokerages.

Lee County government, property appraiser, clerk and GIS

  • https://rit.leegov.com

  • https://www.leepa.org/

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  • https://www.leegov.com/parks

  • https://gisexplorer.leegov.com

  • https://www.leegov.com/utilities

  • https://www.leegov.com/dcd/flood

  • https://www.leegov.com/tolls/cost

  • https://www.leegov.com/dcd/zoning

  • https://www.leegov.com/bocc/zoning

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  • https://www.leegov.com/budget/mstbu

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  • https://www.leegov.com/dcd/DS/traffic

  • https://www.leegov.com/dcd/flood/firm

  • https://www.leegov.com/hearingexaminer

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  • https://www.leegov.com/budget/mstbu/faq

  • https://www.leegov.com/waterqualityinfo

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  • https://www.leepa.org/HurricaneIan.aspx

  • https://www.leepa.org/Roll/TaxRoll.aspx

  • https://www.leepa.org/Systems/Codes.aspx

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  • https://www.leegov.com/dcd/flood/defined

  • https://www.leegov.com/dot/roadwatchupdate

  • https://www.leegov.com/utilities/rates-fees

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Lee County schools

  • https://cyh.leeschools.net/

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Florida state agencies, statutes and corporate records

  • https://search.sunbiz.org/

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  • https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/244977

  • https://fchr.myflorida.com/fchr55andolderhousing

  • https://condos.myfloridalicense.com/inspections/

  • https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2025/200.069

  • https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2025/553.899

  • https://www.flsenate.gov/laws/statutes/2022/553.899

  • https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2025/718.112

  • https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2025/718.111

  • https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2025/627.714

  • https://www.fldoe.org/file/18534/SchoolGrades26.xlsx

  • https://web03.fldoe.org/schools/schoolreport.asp?id=36

  • https://fchr.myflorida.com/s/2025-26-Regulatory-Plan.pdf

  • https://search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/CorporationSearch/ByName

  • https://www.fldoe.org/file/7584/2526MembBySchoolByGrade.xlsx

  • https://prodenv.dep.state.fl.us/DepStaging/api/dms/23.12503.1

  • https://www.flsenate.gov/Committees/BillSummaries/2026/html/302

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  • https://prodenv.dep.state.fl.us/DepStaging/api/dms/23.1209059.1

  • https://www.fldoe.org/file/18534/SchoolGradesResultsPacket26.pdf

  • https://www.fsga.org/Club/Detail/7f8738da-6c42-4625-bceb-7768ec0d7a1f

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Federal: FEMA, NOAA, USACE, USGA, eCFR

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  • https://www.fema.gov/flood-insurance/advocate

  • https://w3.saj.usace.army.mil/h2o/reports.htm

  • https://w3.saj.usace.army.mil/h2o/currentLL.shtml

  • https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL092022_Ian.pdf

  • https://ncrdb.usga.org/courseTeeInfo?CourseID=34274

  • https://ncrdb.usga.org/courseTeeInfo?CourseID=34769

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  • https://hazards.fema.gov/arcgis/rest/services/public/NFHL/MapServer

  • https://hazards.fema.gov/arcgis/rest/services/public/NFHL/MapServer/3

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  • https://hazards.fema.gov/arcgis/rest/services/public/NFHL/MapServer/34

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  • https://hazards.fema.gov/arcgis/rest/services/public/NFHL/MapServer/22

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The Landings club, associations and the community magazine

  • https://www.landingsygtc.com

  • https://www.landingsygtc.com/

  • https://www.landingsygtc.com/Login

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  • https://www.landingsygtc.com/Lifestyle_Amenities

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  • https://landings.seabreezecommunications.com/2026/07/19/fishing-club

  • https://landings.seabreezecommunications.com/events/venues/helm-club

Cape Coral Bridge Project and transportation

  • https://capecoralbridgeproject.com

  • https://capecoralbridgeproject.com/

  • https://capecoralbridgeproject.com/faq

  • https://capecoralbridgeproject.com/section-4

  • https://capecoralbridgeproject.com/phdocuments

  • https://capecoralbridgeproject.com/publichearing

  • https://capecoralbridgeproject.com/projectdocuments

  • https://capecoralbridgeproject.com/project-schedule

  • https://capecoralbridgeproject.com/project-overview-full

  • https://fdotewp1.dot.state.fl.us/stateconstructionoffice/

  • https://capecoralbridgeproject.com/s/CapeCoralType2CEApproval_LDCA.pdf

  • https://capecoralbridgeproject.com/s/452775-3-Cape-Coral-Bridge_Type-2-CE_20240805.pdf

  • https://capecoralbridgeproject.com/s/452775-3-Cape-Coral-Bridge-_Noise-Study-Report_20240717.pdf

  • https://fdotwww.blob.core.windows.net/sitefinity/docs/default-source/planning/fto/sourcebook/sbmethodology.pdf

  • https://capecoralbridgeproject.com/s/452775-3-Cape-Coral-Bridge-_Preliminary-Engineering-Report-20240802-2.pdf

  • https://capecoralbridgeproject.com/s/452775-3-Cape-Coral-Bridge-_Cultural-Resources-Assessment-Survey_20240301-2.pdf

Healthcare, education and mapping

  • https://www.fsw.edu/lee

  • https://www.leehealth.org/

  • https://router.project-osrm.org/

  • https://www.fgcu.edu/about/fastfacts

  • https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/

  • https://www.leehealth.org/shipley-center

  • https://www.leehealth.org/find-urgent-care

  • https://www.leehealth.org/our-services/orthopedics

  • https://www.canterburyfortmyers.org/about/at-a-glance

  • https://www.leehealth.org/our-services/oncology/proton-therapy

  • https://www.canterburyfortmyers.org/admission/tuition-financialaid

  • https://www.leehealth.org/locations/find-a-location/gch-emergency-room

  • https://www.leehealth.org/locations/find-a-location/cape-coral-hospital

  • https://www.leehealth.org/locations/find-a-location/lee-memorial-hospital

News media

  • https://fortmyers.floridaweekly.com/articles/lee-county-secures-key-fema-rating/

  • https://www.news-press.com/picture-gallery/life/2025/02/23/a-look-back-at-ionas-flower-power/79473326007/

  • https://www.news-press.com/story/life/130-years/2014/10/12/fields-condos-concrete-replaced-crops/17100081/

  • https://www.floridaweekly.com/articles/fort-myers-arts-and-entertainment-news/fort-myers/the-lives-they-led-38/

  • https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fort-myers-takes-stock-ians-damage-residents-look-reasons-hopeful-rcna50118

  • https://www.nbcnews.com/business/real-estate/hurricane-risk-florida-escalating-flood-insurance-harder-get-rcna216843

  • https://www.news-press.com/story/life/2025/02/23/from-the-archives-fort-myers-flower-power-stems-from-iona/78248075007/

  • https://www.capecoralbreeze.com/opinion/local-columns/2013/02/08/hunting-gladiolus-in-the-former-gladiolus-capital-of-the-world/

  • https://www.news-press.com/story/news/local/2026/03/19/bridge-replacements-road-work-drive-billions-in-lee-road-work/89210843007/

  • https://www.news-press.com/story/news/local/2026/04/24/facing-steep-funding-needs-and-long-permit-lee-opts-for-lobbyist/89732873007/

  • https://www.gulfshorebusiness.com/gb_daily/unincorporated-lee-county-cape-coral-to-maintain-crs-classification-policyholder-discounts/

  • https://www.news-press.com/story/news/local/2026/05/04/lee-backs-away-from-penny-tax-for-roads-traffic-woes-going-nowhere/89871931007/

  • https://www.news-press.com/story/entertainment/2017/04/22/look-back-fort-myers-gladiolus-capital-cox-history-gulf-coast-farms/100553194/

  • https://www.capecoralbreeze.com/news/local-news/2026/03/18/county-may-look-to-lobbyist-to-land-250m-federal-grant-to-replace-cape-coral-bridge/


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