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Cape Coral city leaders revealed what they are calling "the final master plan for the Cape Coral Yacht Club" at Wednesday's Committee of the Whole meeting.

The Yacht Club has sat fenced up ever since Hurricane Ian destroyed the ballroom and pier.

According to the plan, the new Yacht club will have an expanded beach, new restaurant, a resort-style pool with lanes and more. For the link to the whole plan, click here .

To keep up with our ever-growing city, there will also be nearly 900 parking spaces. That includes 158 for boats and 596 for cars. To fit that much parking, they need to build a 4-story parking garage in place of the pickleball and tennis courts.

Ron Austin from the Southwest Florida Yacht Club also spoke at Wednesday's city council meeting. He is asking the city if the new community center could be his club's new permanent home.

"We have 400 miles of canals in Cape Coral. We have a lot of boats. Thousands of boats. And without that would be a great thing for the citizens to have a yacht club to be in." Austin said.

Council members said they understand the public's frustration with how long this is taking. They are frustrated too, but they need to get a lot of state and federal permits approved to take on a project this size.

NBC2 asked the city how long this would all take. They sent the following response:

"The Yacht Club Master Plan will come before the council for approval at a future meeting. A timeline for this will be developed in the next few weeks.

Once the council receives and approves the final design and associated fees, the project will move into the design phase.

We anticipate completion within 3-4 years, but this is contingent on federal and state permits."

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Soaring above Cape Coral's beloved Yacht Club Beach: Drone video shows it's almost ready

Cape Coral's beloved Yacht Club Beach is expected to open this week after being closed for more than a year due to Hurricane Ian damage.

Can't wait to see the freshly renourished Caloosahatchee River shoreline? Check out this aerial drone videos and photos, shot by News-Press photographer Ricardo Rolón , showing the beach, which is being renourished in advance of the Nov. 10 reopening .

As reported by News-Press Cape Coral reporter Luis Zambrano : The city had been waiting on permits for the refurbishment. Once they received the OK, they started the work, with heavy equipment traversing the beach and adding sand in areas that were lacking.

Cape Coral Yacht Club Beach in advance of Nov. 10 reopening

This article originally appeared on Fort Myers News-Press: Cape Coral Yacht Club Beach drone video shows aerial view of shoreline

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Hurricane Ian levels plans for Cape Coral Yacht Club

By chuck ballaro - | feb 1, 2023.

Plans for a $60 million dollar renovation of the Cape Coral Yacht Club appear to be another Hurricane Ian loss with the city now looking at a total rebuild.

Cape Coral City Council got a look Thursday at options for a completely re-imagined Yacht Club that would make the city-owned complex less like a park and more like a destination complete with a beach, retail and commercial opportunities and the feel of a resort.

Its buildings are a total loss and cannot be repaired or rebuilt as previously constructed due to federal regulations for flood-zone structures.

The main ballroom building at the historic riverfront park was appraised at The $680,000; it needs $520,000 in repair. The second building, the Tony Rotino Center, was appraised at $467,000; it needs $350,000 in repairs.

Both buildings at the Driftwood Parkway park fall under FEMA’s 50 percent rule, which means the city can only repair a structure up to 50 percent of its value if it is in a flood zone. Both buildings went well over the limit and, since the city can’t raise the buildings to make them flood compliant, they will have to come down, council was told Thursday.

James Pankonin of Kimley-Horn, which are the designers of the project, said the vision of the Yacht Club was a “return to its roots as Cape Coral’s premier waterfront venue and that a resort-style atmosphere should be created that plays to its strengths, like its views of the Caloosahatchee, historic ballroom and fountain, a resort-style swimming pool, waterfront restaurant, marina and beach.

Amenities that don’t require a waterfront location, such as the tennis courts — a point of contention during the original renovation talks — could be relocated to other sites.

Council pretty much now has a blank canvas with which to work, and Pankonin gave the elected board five rough concepts. These included an improved marina and boating access, new and maybe multiple piers; better and expanded waterfront access; as many as three restaurants; the possibility for commercial or retail, much more parking and a range of amenities that capitalize on riverfront location.

As for a pool, many on council liked the idea of a resort-style design and rejected the possibility of the Olympic-sized pool, something the city has said it would like to see for nearly a year but not at this location where a resort pool would be more appropriate.

Councilmember Bill Steinke said he wanted demolition work to start.

“We are not fixing these buildings, so let’s remove them. To look at empty land is better than watching destruction and I don’t want them to be a hazard,” said Steinke, who added he would like to see the project done in phases, which is now possible since the entire park is being redone instead of its edges.

Also, work can start immediately once the permits come in, now that the city can start on seawalls and that they are not keeping the buildings.

As for cost and a timeline, that is unknown. Originally, the timeline was 24 months, but if restaurants are added on a pier and if things go more vertical, it could be longer.

Mayor John Gunter said he was happy the outer footprint hasn’t changed much, except for the pier the city lost due to the storm for which they will have to get a permit.

But Gunter added he hopes insurance will pay for the damage done to the buildings.

“When you see the damage Ian did, and we have to adhere to the 50 percent rule like everybody else, those buildings will be replaced,” Gunter said. “We will get some insurance reimbursement for those buildings. It probably won’t pay for a new building, but it will mitigate the costs and with the blank slate we can move the components of the project.”

Hurricane Ian, a near Category 5 storm with winds of up to 155 mph, made landfall on Caya Costa on Sept. 28. Its storm surge inundated Fort Myers Beach, Sanibel, Captiva and communities all along the Caloosahatchee and Gulf-access waterfront including Matlacha and Cape Coral’s Gold Coast where homes near the Yacht Club complex — the city’s oldest and most iconic public complex — took up to 6 feet of water.

Receding waters left the area littered with boats of all sizes and homes with inches of muck and soaked possessions and drywall.

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“You can currently look at these houses that are significantly lower. I mean, I don’t know if there’s a couple on that street on the backside that was really low. And then the house next to it, the foundation’s at the window level,” said Ryan Lamb, Cape Coral Emergency Operator Director.