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Lee County buys 56 acres for preserve
BUYER: Lee County, Fort Myers
SELLER: Morgan Hill Investments LLP formerly known as Nature Walk Developers LLP
PROPERTY: eastern arm of the Six Mile Cypress Slough Preserve north of Penzance Road, Fort Myers
PRICE: $1.5 million
PREVIOUS PRICE: $650,000, March 2006 and $420,000, June 2006
LAW FIRM ON DEED: Henderson Franklin Starnes & Holt PA, Fort Myers
PLANS, DESCRIPTION: Lee County government purchased 56 acres at the eastern end of the Six Mile Cypress Slough Preserve next to Interstate 75 and north of Penzance Road for $1.5 million.
The purchase price equated to $26,786 per acre.
The property doesn't adjoin existing county owned property, but is linked to the preserve though several mitigation areas controlled by the county through conservation easements. The additional property brings the total size of the preserve to nearly 2,500 acres.
The addition contains a mix of uplands and wetlands and serves as the habitat for panthers, black bears, bobcat, deer, fox, wading birds, otters, alligators and other animals.
The county funded the purchase through its Conservation 20/20 program, which buys environmentally important lands for preservation. It is funded by a property tax of 50 cents for every $1,000 of taxable property value.
Since the first purchase in 1997, the Lee County Conservation 20/20 program has made 101 land purchases producing a total land inventory of 22,564 acres.
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