{"id":111142,"date":"2026-01-09T00:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T00:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/111142\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T00:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T00:42:12","slug":"cape-coral-approves-wetland-credits-for-city-projects-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/111142\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Coral approves wetland credits for city projects | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Coral City Council at its Jan. 7 meeting approved the purchase of credits from the Little Pine Island Wetlands Mitigation Bank to compensate for the impact of several city projects on wetland ecosystems.<\/p>\n<p>Each credit represents the ecological value of an acre of healthy, restored wetlands and is required to obtain permitting from the South Florida Water Management District and other regulatory agencies.<\/p>\n<p>The city purchased 0.59 forested freshwater and 0.39 herbaceous freshwater credits for $208,800 to offset the impact of building the Oasis Sports Field project; one forested freshwater credit and 0.93 herbaceous freshwater credits for $406,350 for the extension of Andalusia Boulevard covering three-quarters of a mile; and 0.02 forested saltwater credits for $7,600 for mangrove trimming in Sirenia Vista Park.<\/p>\n<p>The credits are designed to restore and preserve wetlands in the Mitigation Bank\u2019s service area, which includes portions of Collier, Lee, Sarasota, and Charlotte counties.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cape Coral City Council at its Jan. 7 meeting approved the purchase of credits from the Little Pine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,3335,325],"class_list":{"0":"post-111142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cape-coral","8":"tag-cape-coral","9":"tag-cape-coral-headlines","10":"tag-cape-coral-news","11":"tag-gb-daily","12":"tag-lee"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}