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WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 SANIBEL AND CAPTIVA. FLORIDA VOLUME 53, NUMBER 45 Fort M yers native strikes c a n s n ij gold w ith music legends By BRIAN WIERIMA CUAN-H [email protected] The songwriting business is one filled with many trials and Day is a big step in tribulations, as writers from all genres of music keeping beaches clean await their big break, which usually means By BRIAN WIERIMA hearing their songs being [email protected] played on a continuous person can leave their mark on the envi cycle on mainstream ronment which can last up to one mil radio. lion years, but it’s a mark which one A For Fort Myers’ native would not be proud of making. Jeff Prince, his long jour Litter and discarded trash effectively puts a ney through the business Songwriter stain on the environment, one which will not Jeff Prince of songwriting finally simply go away in days, months or even years. broke through this past year and he broke More than likely, that glass bottle you just through big time. drained and irresponsibly tossed in the San Carlos Bay while fishing for some redfish, will See MUSIC, page 14 be around until the sun burns out - one million years. How about that cigarette butt you just extin ISIANDIRINSIDE guished and thoughtlessly threw out your car window while driving down Summerlin, which in turn will be swept into a rain gutter and pos sibly out into the ocean? Harmless? Not quite. It takes a cigarette filter anywhere from one to 50 years to completely dissolve back into nothing, while that monofilament line >Ai which you had unsecured in your boat and it blew out into the Gulf of Mexico, can severely w damage or kill many different species over its time on Earth, which is 600 years. MSL J O iflM M T -M l B°bRau“^ ' ? G!i"«rv Cayo Costa park rangers work in unique environment LET’SGO INTHEISLANDEB By BRIAN WIERIMA It’s the day and life of could only laugh. [email protected] a Cayo Costa park ranger, “A normal day, huh?” Reed said with a ALSOINSIDITODAY Maintaining a house is a chore for a job which entails work laugh. “No, everyday is different out here. Word on the Island ................4 many, but imagine trying to take care of ing on an island, where It’s just limitless, there are no two days 2,506 acres of paradise, which can only convenience stores don’t which are ever the same.” E d ito ria l.......................................4 be reached by boat. exist and you will work Challenges abound, but the chance to B u s in e s s ...................................8 What comes with such a responsibility with what you have. work in paradise, literally, has been an is self-reliance, self-efficiency and duties When asked to attraction for the Park Rangers who live it Preserving Paradise .... 13 which include everything from fixing a describe a normal, regular everyday. Island L iv in g ...........................44 carburetor on a tractor, to clearing a half day of working on Cayo There are many hats a Cayo Costa park S p o r ts ........................................52 acre of invasive exotic plants near the Megan Costa State Park, Park ranger has to wear, because there will be beach. Reed Ranger Megan Reed See RANGERS, page 53 Leisure Pleasers .................. 54 Mariner Pointe # 813 This Week's 2/2 Top Floor/Comer Unit S S M U 0 3 Bay st Canal Views jawoisno |B!iu3pisau Featured Property Convenient East End Location eezs# iiujjad Id ‘SH3AIN Id for Sale... $459,000 Call Eric Pfeifer dlV d a o v is o d s n SunnySanibei.com a i s a i s a d *r Realty Group! ra iJ 9C Huxter’s on Periwinkle Way to gain a much-needed facelift S By BRIAN WIERIMA some new landscaping and replace some Periwinkle,” said Dan Murphy with a The waiver also will include parking bwie 'aiS'breezenew spapers. corr- existing outdoor light fixtures. chuckle, who is one of the owners of the modifications, because they will not com property, after purchasing it last ply with current setback requirements, but ir> An old favorite of SanibePs will be The waiver request is the first one >—< getting a facelift starting this year. heard by the Planning Commission since November. "We have 13 employees, as will not encroach any further upon any © The new owners for Huxter's Market the Sanibel City Council passed an ordi well, with five residing on Sanibel and we required setbacks than the existing park *N and Deli and Huxter's Liquors nance to allow waiver requests, despite thank the Commission for allowing us the ing spaces. Two parking spaces will be eliminated n- (1201/1203 Periwinkle Way) were grant the structure being nonconforming. opportunity to make a better impression © ed a waiver request by the Sanibel “This is why the waiver was put in on visitors to the island." along the front of the building, but will be s Planning Commission to allow for facade place,” said Planning Commission mem The Huxter building was built in 1971, replaced along the rear of the building and It — and roof modifications to a “lawfully ber Holly Smith. “This (request) is a text before Sanibel was incorporated as a city, will off-set any increase in developed area Q. existing nonconforming commercial book example of the waiver process when thus its nonconforming structures were by removing an equal amount of gravel building”. the City Council passed the ordinance.” grandfathered in. The property is noncon area behind the facility with new land The owners, Sanibel Tortuga Director of Planning Jim Jordan added forming with current flood-proofing or scaping. C3 T3 Properties, LLC, proposed to modify the the modifications to the building are a elevation requirements and maxim per Replacing existing nonconforming front entry and roof facade of the Huxter's welcome move by the owners, since it mitted commercial floor area ratio. outdoor light fixtures to new Dark Sky c ordinance conforming fixtures will be ”0 market building and modify the front isn’t in the best condition cosmetically, A waiver was requested because the pro <U parking spaces to accommodate new land and used a "pimple on Ms. America’s posed building modifications will also not done, as well. scaping along the front and side of the face” reference in describing the older comply with the setback requirements, but But the waiver process allows the building. facility. will not encroach any further into any of property owners not to have to make Other proposals included installing "It also was described as the wart of rehired setback than the existing building. 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