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The Inglis family will be allowed to build their dream home on Goodland.
On a 4-1 vote Tuesday night, Collier County commissioners agreed to let the family build what is expected to be the first megahouse in the tiny fishing village.
Commissioner Donna Fiala, whose district includes Goodland, cast the dissenting vote.
Commissioners began to hear from staff, property owner Jim Inglis and some village residents at 5:20 p.m. and called for a break at 6:30 p.m. Once they started again the discussion ran until 7:15 p.m.
Plans for the 14,000-square-foot home on East Coconut Avenue recently came to the forefront when a group of Goodland homeowners went before commissioners to try to get them to stop construction.
Documents filed by the Inglis family with county staff show that the six-bedroom, 10-bathroom home is slated to have 6,863 square feet of living space, or “under air” area, and 7,470 square feet of non-living area which includes two garages and storage area in the first floor, a porch, a lanai, a balcony and a portico, which brings the home's total area to 14,333 square feet.
Concerns over the height of the house, its septic tank capacity and how such a large-scale house could affect the Goodland Zonning Overlay were raised at the meeting.
The board’s decision was welcome by Jim Inglis, who owns the property with his sister.
“Our family has been coming here for 37 years. We’ve enjoyed Goodland and we want to continue doing that,” said Inglis, in an interview. “We’ll just have a new house to do in.”
For more information, read Thursday's Naples Daily News.
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At least it is the people who lived there since 1970 and not those from south of the border.
#1 Posted by Ed_Foster on January 24, 2007 at 1:46 p.m. (Suggest removal)
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