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CHR Ownership Options Coming Soon .l.\ VOLUME 33, NUMBER 18 WEEK OF JUNE 28, 2007 CHR ownership options coming soon By EMILIE ALFINO New bridge to ealfino @ breezenewspapers.com "No matter how you do manufactured homes, they come out looking like open tonight Community Housing & double-wides. I would hate to see you go that way just to save a few Resources is developing below- bucks. I offer to build these homes at hard manufactured cost with no prof- Traffic to switch over market-rate housing to be located at around 7 p.m. Court Place that will, for the first it rather than see manufactured homes come in." time, offer qualified people a — Michael Valiquette chance to own a home on Sanibel. Planning Commission Chairman The project will include eight limit- ed-equity ownership units and six housing," Marks said. "Thanks to faith-based organizations — a num- tems built" homes — not to be con- or. seven rental units. Scott [Marcelais, CHR Executive ber of island churches have fused with what was formerly This is CHR's first step into the Director], we have at least a approached us already — and we known as manufactured homes, world of home ownership, and $500,000 grant already and there can partner with projects such as according to Mike Cuscaden, presi- BMRH Committee Chairman will be more as we go along." the proposed new town center," dent of Community Housing & Phillip Marks reported on the This is the first of what CHR Marks explained. "We can assist Resources. undertaking at the planning com- hopes will be many developments with mixed-use development and "Systems production is entirely mission's meeting on Tuesday. involving limited-equity owner- with redevelopment." different," he said. "It is very Plans are being sent to the city's ship. Under the newly formed The land trust will be starting a impressive, very sophisticated. This Weigh Station to Planning Department and ultimate- Coast & Islands Community Land capital campaign some time this is not what you think of when you ly will come before the planning Trust, CHR can partner with a vari- year to raise money and seek land say manufactured housing." close July 1 commission. City and county to start ety of institutions to build homes donations for future projects. Cuscaden added that systems "This is exciting because it's the for BMRH-qualified people. Another difference in the homes are built to meet much more removing building first time we've offered ownership and equipment "We can build on land we own, planned ownership program is the 2 to people in below-market-rate- lease with the city, partner with construction: these will be "sys- See CHR, page 7 The Luckiest dog on Sanibel Raccoons feasting at Reporter wants your restaurant trash bins news Wildlife Committee calls for action Post to the vir- By EMILIE ALFINO tual ealfino@breezenewspspers. newsroom: breezenewspapers.com The members of the city's "Many peo- Wildlife ple are obliv- Committee are ious to the frustrated with situation." Answer me island restaurants this... that repeatedly Gopal Pah Take part in our leave their dump- Ciiairnum online poll. sters open in vio- Wildlife This week's question: lation of Sanibel's ('oniminee ordinance, invit- How will you cele- ing raccoons to feast on their garbage. brate the Fourth of July? Committee Chairman Gopal "Indy" Pati said he's seriously considering proposing people picket the Answer online at offending restaurants when the committee next meets island-reporter.com and see in October. what others have said. "Is that what these restaurants want?" he asked. "I See last week's results inside am a former business professional, and I understand on Page 10. everybody has a right to run their business and make a profit. But you've got to abide by the law, particularly in health issues such as this. This is a constant problem. We have got to appeal to the business community" July 4 Parade Starts at 9:30 a.m. runs down See RACCOONS, page 14 Periwinkle from Tarpon Bay Rd. to Casa Ybel Rd. Mayor summarizes work on regional water council EMILIE ALFINO Ten-year-old Austin Anderson was brave enough to carry the bleeding Milo on the trip Planning commission weighs in on Sextant Dr. to the vet the night of the attack. The little dog pays him back with constant affection and plenty of playtime. By EMILIE ALFINO [email protected] Mayor Mick Denham, "Today I am Tough terrier survives alligator attack who serves as quietly opti- tvery issue the city council mistic that Letters 4 liaison to the things are By EMILIE ALFINO but no one can say for sure because what planning com- Community Calender .... 8 [email protected] happened at the Waldorf-Anderson resi- mission, has beginning to Less than six days after a 10-pound ter- dence last Tuesday night is unheard of — been making change, things Gardening 10 rier named Milo was locked in the jaws of a happy ending to a pet's encounter with detailed are beginning Classified Ads 15 an alligator, he was running around his an alligator. reports to the to happen." Normally, 10-year-old Austin takes commissioners living room playing with the other family 1 Word on the Island 13 pets, well on his way,to recovery. dogs Milo and Sandy for their last outing at recent meet- — Mayor Mick befpre bed. Sandy, the older and bigger ings outlining Deaths 13 "To look at him, other than the cone, Denharsi you'd never know," Milo's owner Terry dog, is a beagle-Jack Russell terrier mix. the work of Police Beat J 3 Waldorf said on Monday. "He still thinks That night, though, Waldorf wanted city council, the happenings at their meetings, and his he's the toughest thing on the island. He's Austin to get to bed early because the fam- work on the Southwest Florida Regional Planning island-reporter.com a sweet dog with a lot of attitude packed ily— including Austin's 13-year-old Council. into a little body." Denham was asked to join the planning council That might be what saved the little dog, See MILO, page 3 See WATER, page 5 ox Weigh station to be removed Revenue to city ends June 30 By EMILIE ALFINO [email protected] City Council decided earlier this month 3 to let the causeway weigh station go when the county's deadline for its removal arrived on July 1. So on Sunday, city staff will work with Lee County to remove the equipment, which will be disposed of by I the city. "We are working directly with the Lee County Department of Transportation on the weigh station," City Manager Judie Zimomra said. "We are on schedule for the July 1 removal, with some work being done by the county and some by the city." "We want it out of there as soon as pos- sible because we want to begin designing the park," said Lee County Board of Commissioners Chairman Bob Janes, the former mayor of Sanibel. "Where that weigh station building sits is where we're EMILIE ALFINO going to put a rest room for men and A truck pulls up to the causeway weigh station for one of the last times early women. Removing it should be a minimal Wednesday morning before dismantling begins Friday. cost because all it consists of is the weight equipment and the hut the guy stays in, weigh station issue. electronics, and computer equipment. maybe some signs, the scales. It's city of By Sanibel City Resolution No. 07078, Lee County Deputy Transportation EMILIE ALFINO I Sanibel property." the weigh station equipment is to be sold, Director Paul Wingard said Sanibel Police Sanibel Police Aide John Ballo has Zimomra said Sanibel has been working scrapped, or traded in. The equipment basi- will remove the trailer but leave the scales manned the weigh station for six years. very closely with Lee County staff on the cally includes the vehicle trailer, scales, for now. The county will remove those in After the station is removed Sunday, two to three weeks and grade the area. Ballo said will return to the traffic divi- Zimomra said the scales and other sion of the Sanibel Police Department. 1,300 street trees to be planted on Sanibel equipment are well past their useful life "I guess things have got to move on," and far from up-to-date with current tech- he added. Minor traffic delays expected will supervise the plantings and the Public nology. It would not be worth it to relocate Works Department will oversee and coordi- the equipment should the city ever decide On July 5, the City of Sanibel will begin nate the utility and drainage aspects of the to put a weigh station on the island. without a vote, to allow the weigh station to the second phase of plantings to restore veg- project. be closed and lose the revenue it produced That appears to be a closed issue, how- for the city. etation along the Periwinkle Way Corridor. This work is being done pursuant to the ever, as city council decided on June 5, The second phase includes planting Periwinkle Way Corridor Restoration 1,300 additional trees along Periwinkle Master Plan, approved by City Council. Way, from Dunlop Road to Palm Ridge Upon completion of the second phase, over Road, parts of Donax Road, Tarpon Bay 3000 trees will have been planted along the Road and Island Inn Road. Periwinkle Corridor and contiguous road- SCCF plants grasses and rushes u The work is scheduled to be completed ways.
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