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Cape Coral set final site plan for the Yacht Club; timeline for renovations still shaky

Cape Coral City Council choose the final site plan for the Yacht Club, though the project is still at the mercy of permitting and has no set date.

The Cape Coral Yacht Club, which includes a yacht basin, tennis courts, a swimming pool, a ballroom, and a riverside beach, has served as a popular attraction and staple for the city since the 1960s but will soon undergo major renovations.

Here's what we know:

Changes to the Yacht Club site plan

James Pankonin with Kimley Horn, a consulting firm focusing on public and private developments, presented the information as a follow-up from a discussion in November.

There the council directed him to adjust the original renovation plans, which included a two-story community center, removing the tennis courts, and rearranging the area to accommodate a parking garage, a new restaurant, and a new resort-style pool.

The major updates based on previous comments now include:

•Realigned, curved entry into the park•Additional landscape buffering at the garage•Relocate the fountain to the park entry area•Shift the restroom on the beach to be more central•Maintain a walkable path connecting the beachfront•Prefer a longer pier and no restaurant at the pier•Resort pool with lap lane option•Provide a “quick snack” food option•Confirm parking counts per code based on uses

The proposed total parking at the yacht club includes 754 spaces: 596 for cars and boat trailers and 158 total boat slips.

There are currently 438 car parking spaces at the yacht club and 113 boat slips.

Pankonin said an additional proposed fourth level for the parking garage would provide an estimated 150 more parking spaces for a total of 904.

The new two-story community center would have 37,000 square feet and include a new ballroom, retail space, exterior balcony, storage and meeting space, and a multi-purpose hall.

Previous discussions  said the project could cost up to $100 million.

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Cape Coral Council OKs new design, wants fourth floor of parking

The council overwhelmingly favored the changes and new design, but they had some minor adjustments.

Councilmember Tom Hayden said some details still need to be worked out with the pool and fountain, but he likes the new designs.

He wanted to explore adjusting the length and lanes of the pool for competitive uses and find a way to make the fountain more visible to people entering and leaving the area.

Hayden favors adding a fourth parking floor to the garage.

"I think that's always going to be my biggest concern is to make sure that we have adequate parking and people are not hunting for space," Hayden said.

He said he still wants to see a room dedicated to the old Yacht Club.

Councilmember Bill Steinke asked about the pool lanes, and Hayden said he wanted to see eight lanes for competitions.

Steinke said he views the pool element more as a recreational amenity than competitive, so eight lanes is a bit much for him.

"You are not going to do competitive events in 25 meters, so I think expanding it a little bit for four lanes would be good," Steinke said.

New Councilmember Richard Carr said he also wanted to see a fourth level of parking, with parking spaces for the disabled taken into account.

Councilmember Dan Sheppard said he commends the work on the new design and is for it 100%.

"I believe this will be an extreme asset to our city, " Sheppard said.

He agrees with Stienke on the part of a recreational pool and wants to see a competitive pool elsewhere in the city.

Sheppards also wants the fourth floor of parking.

Mayor John Gunter sees the yacht club as a recreational facility and prefers a few lap lanes.

He also wants additional finger piers on the existing pier location.

"We want to make sure we maximize that access," Gunter said.

He also agrees with adding to parking.

"You'll probably be at capacity day one, so I would advocate for that fourth level," Gunter said.

Councilmembers Keith Long, Jessica Cosden, and Robert Welsh also agree with the fourth floor of parking.

Permitting woes could delay work to rebuild Yacht Club

Though the city is making headway in its vision for the Yacht Club, permitting creates uncertainty on when things can move forward.

Cape Coral is planning to demolish the main buildings at the yacht club, including the main ballroom building, the Tony Rotino Center, tennis courts, pool, and harbormaster.

Previously slated for demolition in late December/January, city officials anticipate getting under contract with a company for demolition within 30 days.

"Once under contract, the company will apply for permits with the City and begin demolition activities," said Cape Coral spokesperson Kaitlyn Mullen in an email statement.

Residents can use the beach while the demolition takes place.

Spokesperson Melissa Mickey confirms that no date is set on when demolition will begin.

Steinke asked about repairs to the boat launch to make it usable before demolition and groundbreaking starts.

City Manager Michael Ilczyszyn said they are waiting on permits from the Army Corps of Engineers.

He said the city will provide information on whether that will be beneficial in terms of time and resources, as they will need that space closed once demolition begins.

"So it's kinda like a crystal ball planning, so we can say go and repair the finger pier and say that we are going to open it, but then it's just time depended on the demolition permit and the Army Corps," Ilczyszyn said.

Ilczyszyn said if the city starts demolition within 30 days, it could take 60 to 90 days to complete, and he anticipates that by May, the city could have the permit necessary to start marine work.

Ilczyszyn could not answer if all the work at the yacht club could be finished within the next three to four years.

He also clarifies that after the demolition is over, there will be a period before construction can begin.

"We are still on two years for the site," Ilczyszyn said. "Now it's just how long does it take to design this and construct it?"

Luis Zambrano is a Watchdog/Cape Coral reporter for The News-Press and the Naples Daily News. You can reach Luis at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @Lz2official.

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City of Cape Coral unveils updated plans for Yacht Club

CAPE CORAL, Fla. — With the Cape Coral Yacht Club reopening this Friday, we are getting a glimpse of what the rest of the yacht club could look like.

City staff provided an updated version of the Yacht Club Master Plan at Wednesday’s Committee of the Whole meeting. They provided two concepts.

Both add a second pier, a resort-style pool, and another restaurant. There will also be more parking. The plans show a three-story parking garage with more than 500 spaces. There would also be nearly 40 spaces for boat trailers. However, crews would have to take out the pickleball and tennis courts to make room for it.

The city manager said they will revisit these plans in January. This project is still in the design phase. There is no date set yet to take a vote on it.

You can look at the concepts the city staff presented at Wednesday’s meeting here .

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Council discusses new Yacht Club concept plans

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The new vision for the Cape Coral Yacht Club is becoming clearer.

Cape Coral City Council reached a consensus Wednesday on certain amenities, including a resort-style pool, a longer replacement pier, centralized restrooms and possibly a water feature.

Core elements include more beach, a new two-story community center, a three-story parking garage and a revamped marina to accommodate larger boats.

The conversation was brought to Council so staff has direction for the rebuilding of the center part of the park, which was not been discussed during the winter retreat.

“Thanks, or no thanks, to Hurricane Ian, that scope has grown,” City Manager Michael Ilczyszyn said.

Cape Coral City Council discussed a pair of design concepts for the Yacht Club Park rebuild Wednesday, with the concept above garnering consensus with some tweaks.

As a result of the retreat in January, the city moved forward with expanding the planned parking garage, shifting the harbor master building, and earmarking space for a second restaurant.

“We will come back to you after the hiatus to discuss the building itself — the ballroom and more of a convention center in order to include the programming from the senior center,” he said.

James Pankonin with Kimley-Horn and Associates took Council through two concepts, which were similar in design before the board overwhelming gave a nod of approval for the first concept.

This design features the community center in the center of the property, which is fairly similar to where it sits today, but with a different orientation to capture the sunset views. The building will range between 35,000 to 40,000 square feet, an increase from the now 21,000 square feet with no true front or back of the building. The concept includes adding the fountain as a site feature by the center.

Councilmember Bill Steinke said if they use the second concept roadway that veers off to the right leading into the park, the fountain could go somewhere in the entry as a focal point to provide a memorial of the original Yacht Club.

Cape Coral City Council also liked some of the elements of the second offered option.

“That would be pretty cool,” he said.

It was also discussed that a water feature could be added to the stormwater pond at the entry and keep the fountain by the center.

Most of on Council liked the second concept as far as how the road wraps around the retention pond at the entry.

Mayor John Gunter said this option would allow them to have larger trees and offer additional buffering between the community, houses and the parking garage.

This option also has a resort-style pool with layering amenities such as a play area, upper landscape, garden areas and pathways of different surfaces.

Pankonin said the resort-style pool is about 15,000 square feet compared to the 6,000-square-foot pool there today. There was also discussion of adding an area where visitors could swim laps, which Ilczyszyn said could be accommodated through programming of specific times.

There is also an additional restaurant option to the south of the parking garage.

Councilmember Dan Sheppard suggested having a smaller establishment that services people at the beach and pool with quick drinks and light things to eat.

“Not really a restaurant that we have now, more of walkup type of establishment,” he said.

Ilczyszyn said staff will look to see when programming the building if they can accommodate pool-side concessions and quick bites.

“We haven’t finalized programming in the building,” he said.

The concept includes dedicated slips adjacent to the pier for individuals to launch and recover their boats, which was a concern brought up from a few council members.

“We absolutely have a launch and recover facility plan next to the boat ramp,” Ilczyszyn said.

He said they are also changing the nature of the yacht basin with a program for much larger vessels with slips to accommodate boats from 60 feet to 24 feet or less. In addition, there is also a big open spot on the east of the boat ramp for a pump out facility.

The L-shaped parking garage is estimated to have about 500 parking spaces, an increase from 305 parking spaces in the original design.

Councilmember Keith Long said that parking is parking and, in a way, it sets the occupancy limit.

The amount of onsite parking gave much of the City Council angst, as they feared it would not be enough for what they anticipate will be a very popular destination once completed.

“One of the things we are really trying to do here is capture alternative modes of transportation,” Ilczyszyn said.

The concept includes expanding the entire seawall, which currently has parallel parking for 13 boats, to accommodate three times that number.

“We want people to come by boat. Enjoy the location, views, restaurant, and beach and go home by boat. We don’t want to over accommodate vehicles,” he said, adding that there are options to ride share, carpool and boat.

Council also questioned the size of the harbor master building, which Ilczyszyn explained would serve four purposes. The building will house the Cape Coral Police Department Marine Unit in a quarter of the space with workstations, meeting rooms, restrooms and communication networks. Another quarter of the building will be an uplands facility for the marina with washing and laundry facilities to support a higher level of standard. Another quarter of the building will feature a ship store to sell goods and the last will be utilized for the actual harbor master.

The historic ballroom and much of the other structure are awaiting demolition, giving the city a largely blank palette on which to build its new vision.

The Boathouse Restaurant, already refurbished and rebuilt after Hurricane Ian, will remain open through the process and will be part of the new park.

Ilczyszyn said they have some demolition plans that are being put together and are going out for bid.

They are bringing in heavy equipment in December to start preparing for the future of the park, he added.

“We have not stopped any original permitting for the replacement of the seawall, marina replacement, harbor master building. (We have) still been advancing that with Army Corps on there. We are hopeful we can get that permit issued and award that contract to get seawalls going. We think this is all laying out well.”

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The Cape Coral Yacht Club Beach is now open: Officials and residents rejoice.

Cape Coral officially reopens the Yacht Club Community Park beach on Saturday, more than a year after Hurricane Ian shuttered the park, and residents are already taking advantage of it.

"This is a great day for our community," Mayor John Gunter said Thursday on the beach.

'Four hundred and eight days ago, we had an (almost) category five hurricane hit this area, and this area of our city was the hardest hit."

Kids and their parents will play together in the sand, while older residents lounge and soak up the sun once again at the reopened Cape Coral Beach.

Margie and Jerry Wright, two 70-year-old South Cape Coral residents, were sitting on their beach chairs on the sand, taking in the atmosphere of the hot day as they used to do pre-Ian.

"I've been going back three or four times a week," Wright said "Not having it was terrible."

Background on opening

Hurricane Ian struck Cape Coral on Sept. 28, 2022, delaying renovation plans for the Yacht Club Community Park and shutting down the beach.

Since that time, the city worked toward reopening the area and moving forward with the Yacht Club Master Plan. They experienced permit delays from the Army Corps of Engineers.

"We would have liked to have had this beach open many months ago, but only in the last few weeks, have we gotten the permit to do the beach renourishment.

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What work was done at the beach?

Cape Coral announced it received the corps' OK to move forward on Oct. 30 and began the process.

Gunter and Councilmember Bill Steinke said the next day dump trucks carrying sand rolled into the area.

The following days were filled with heavy machinery combing through the beach and adding sand in areas that were lacking.

'"Like the mayor, said literally the sand was ready to be brought in the moment that we got the okay to do that," Steinke said.

What's open at the Yacht Club park?

While the main Yacht Club Ballroom building is closed, alongside the surrounding buildings and amenities, The Boathouse Tiki Bar & Grill Restaurant is open.

The surrounding parking lots are open, and temporary bathrooms are available to beachgoers.

The Boat Ramp remains closed.

What's next for the Yacht Club?

The city council discussed and gave direction for major overhauls to the future designs of the Yacht Club buildings and layout.

Steinke also added that the city is still awaiting permits from the Army Corps of Engineers and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection for the marine-related improvements.

"As soon as that permit is available, we are ready to go to work and get those get that seawall done and get the docks put in so everybody can enjoy everything that they possibly can as soon as they possibly can, and then all the amenities will come next," Steinke said.

Luis Zambrano is a Watchdog/Cape Coral reporter for The News-Press and the Naples Daily News. You can reach Luis at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @Lz2official.

This article originally appeared on Fort Myers News-Press: Cape Coral officially reopens the Yacht Club beach on Veterans Day

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CAPE CORAL, Fla. — The City of Cape Coral moves forward with a revised master plan for the Cape Coral Yacht Club.

City Council voted Monday night to approve the 36-million dollar revised renovation project.

This decision sparked a lengthy discussion at Monday's city council meeting, with several people voicing concerns over the project’s safety features.

“We’re happy to see the area be renovated and rejuvenated, speaking for all of us, we ask that our lifestyles and property be secured,” said a resident during Monday night's meeting.

The big concern among residents was the need for a security barrier.

“It’s far better to compromise esthetics than to compromise the safety of the vessels or their owners that are funding these improvements,” said Stephany Helper.

Right now, a fence surrounds the boats in the marina, but the new design does not include a security barrier — something that worries Stephany Helper, who lives at the Cape Coral Yacht Club.

“Right now, we have to have a gate key to get in and out, and that’s what makes it so secure,” said Helper.

But project staff say a fence can be easily be addressed, and it’s something they will continue to work on.

Another concern was the new location for the boat ramp.

“We do want everyone to remember that the yacht club is in our backyards, off our lanais, off of our bedrooms, we have to look at and live with whatever y’all decide to do to that park," said a resident.

Cape Coral City Council is moving forward with approving a revised design concept plan that relocates the boat ramp to the yacht basin instead of the canal as initially proposed.

“When the boat ramp is open if we could do dawn to sunset, something where we don’t put them right in the backyard at midnight,” said a resident.

In total, the project is now estimated to cost about $36 million, with $14 million coming from ‘go bond’ money.

That's a 2.28 million dollar increase from the design presented last month. Project staff says the increase is to accommodate changes.

“That includes some additional sea wall demo and seawall reconstruction in the very southwest corner of the park.”

A three-story parking garage is also part of the plan, with a projected $2 fee to park per hour.

Revenue from the parking garage and yacht basin going towards refunding the additional costs of the project.

“I can foresee some problems, but we’ll just have to deal with them as they come along,” said Councilman Rick Williams.

The renovation project also includes additional boat slips, a splash pad, and a building for the Cape Coral Police Marine Unit.

“We need to make sure as we move through this project that we have solid communication to come up with not only what council wants to see moving forward but the residents who live over in that area,” said Mayor Joe Coviello.

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