One road off the island.
70% more people on it.
Approved with no public vote. Not one.
The biggest development in Fort Pierce history is coming to Seaway Drive. Five high rises. One tower 192 feet tall, more than four times our height limit. It got approved under a state law called the Live Local Act that overrides our city zoning. We are your neighbors. We are not against affordable housing. We just want a say in what happens to our island, our evacuation route, and our lagoon.
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What is actually proposed
Five high rises, two hotels, and a bigger marina on Seaway Drive. This is the developer's own rendering of what is proposed.
The tallest of five proposed towers. That is over four times the city height limit. It was approved through a paperwork process our city could not meaningfully influence.
Residential units. Plus two hotels with over 400 rooms, retail, and a bigger marina on Seaway Drive.
Projected jump in the island population. Every one of those people will be on the same causeway bridges the day a hurricane evacuation is ordered.
News reporting says the "affordable" rents at this project could run about double what many working Fort Pierce families actually pay today.
Of public waterfront planning. The Western Peninsula charrette was built on resident input at public meetings. One state law application wiped it off the table.
Our lagoon is on the line this part matters
The site sits on the Indian River Lagoon, one of the most biologically diverse estuaries in North America. Mangroves, seagrass beds, manatees, and nesting sea turtles all live here.
Of the lagoon's seagrass died off between 2011 and 2019 during the algae bloom crisis. Seagrass is the nursery for our fish and the food supply for our manatees. The lagoon cannot take more stress.
The seagrass beds near the Fort Pierce Inlet are considered some of the healthiest left in the whole lagoon, kept alive by clean ocean water flushing through our inlet. This project puts heavy construction, runoff, and marina traffic right beside them.
Roughly half the project site is submerged land. Dredging, sediment, construction debris, and fuel runoff from more marina traffic all threaten water quality in an estuary that is already hurting.
Of the stormwater off acres of new concrete has to go somewhere. Less open ground means more runoff into the lagoon and less natural protection against storm surge and erosion.
The Live Local Act does not exempt this project from environmental law. State and federal permits for work touching wetlands and submerged lands come with public comment periods. We plan to use every one of them.
What we are asking for
Pass it on like a flyer on a porch
Send it to five neighbors right now. That is how this grows.