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Residents raise concerns over Bimini East development proposal in Cape Coral<\/p>\n

\"Jaylen<\/a>CAPE CORAL, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n

At last night\u2019s Cape Coral City Council meeting, the city attorney requested to move the public hearing for the Bimini East development to Oct. 7, leaving residents waiting to voice their concerns. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s got to be some middle ground. They need to listen. They need to build what the reason they, they need to build at a pace. They, they bought that land because they\u2019ve been trying to figure out what to do with the island, because it was distressed for a long time,\u201d said Tony Adinolfi, a Cape Coral resident and former engineer from New York City. <\/p>\n

Adinolfi, who has experience with development projects, believes the $500 million Bimini East project is moving too quickly and adding too much to the area. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m come from New York, this is the most congested place I\u2019ve ever lived. And it\u2019s gotten worse when we have to consider leaving because how congested it\u2019s gotten. But we have a beautiful home and a beautiful location, and we live in paradise here,\u201d Adinolfi said. <\/p>\n

After waiting hours to comment at the council meeting, Adinolfi expressed frustration about the process. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut if you sit there for 2 to 3 hours because they put us at the end of the meeting, it\u2019s not by accident. They don\u2019t want people to have a voice,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Crown Development\u2019s president said they are taking suggestions from past meetings into consideration as the plan evolves. Renderings for Bimini East<\/a> include two hotels, parking garages, apartments, townhomes, a police substation, and restaurants. <\/p>\n

Families like Samantha Nieberg\u2019s, who enjoy the open space at Four Freedoms Park, want the area to remain as it is. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re just saying goodbye to our wildlife or saying goodbye to letting our children roam around like they should. And I just think it\u2019s sad. They have to really grow up in that, that kind of world that we\u2019re more worried about industrial buildings than our parks,\u201d Nieberg said. <\/p>\n

Crown Development said they will continue to activate the waterways in downtown Cape Coral. The public hearing for Bimini East is now scheduled for Oct. 7, when the council will decide on approving the development agreement.<\/p>\n

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