Public hearing set for controversial Captiva resort rezoning

The owners of the South Seas resort — and those opposing it — will go before the Lee County Commission on Aug. 6 after a county Hearing Examiner recommended approval of a zoning application for the nearly $1 billion redevelopment July 11. 

The ownership group wants to build 435 hotel rooms across two hotels on the property. The north hotel, which is replacing the former Harborside Hotel, will have 225 rooms. The south hotel will have 210 rooms and replace the former conference center. Plans also call for 193 multifamily residential units.

To allow for this, the owners are looking to rezone 120.5-acres of the property from residential multifamily, marine commercial and two-family conservation to mixed use planned development, according to an agenda for the public hearing.