My overall opinion of the Estero Island Cottage and Matanzas Pass is that the cottage was a cute piece of history with lots of informative pictures to look at on its walls. The sights that stood out to me at the cottage were the wooden floors because I am not used to seeing wooden floors in Florida. The local quality of life is being enhanced because the island is now based on tourism and there are many more shops and restaurants. My hometown of Fort Myers Beach has changed greatly since I was a child many restaurants and stores have changed names and owners throughout the years and the library is expanding. The beach pool was built to attract more people to the island, although I believe that this did not have much of an effect on tourism. I feel a small sense of community, however when you live on an island or in Florida in general you have to get used to people coming and going. If a developer offered me 300% the market value of my childhood home to develop into condos I would take it because I don’t live there anymore and would not really see the effects it will have on the community and the beach is mostly covered in condos anyways. If the county approached me about purchasing the land under the 20/20 program for 80% of its market value I would still sell, I would prefer the 300% from the developer though.
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