UPCOMING PUBLIC HEARING – January 28, 2025 at 6 PM, with open house starting at 5 PM

FDOT invites you to a public hearing for the Burnt Store Road PD&E Study. The hearing materials are now available for viewing (see the Project Documents box below).

The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), District One, began a Project Development and Environment (PD&E) Study in January 2020 along approximately 5.7 miles of Burnt Store Road in Lee County from Van Buren Parkway to just north of the Charlotte County Line. This study is evaluating alternatives to widen this segment of Burnt Store Road from a two-lane undivided roadway to a four-lane divided roadway, and to four lanes expandable to six lanes. The study also includes evaluation of bridge improvement options over Gator Slough Canal. The estimated completion date of this study is summer of 2025.

FDOT uses an environmental and engineering process called a PD&E Study to determine social, economic, natural, and physical effects associated with proposed transportation improvement projects. The phases that follow the PD&E Study are design of the project, acquisition of right-of-way, if necessary, and construction of the improvements.

FDOT held a public hearing for this project online (through GoTo webinar) and in-person (Cape Coral Technical College) on January 28, 2025. Materials were also available for review and comment below from January 7, 2025 and comments for the hearing were accepted in multiple ways through February 7, 2025. To view what was presented at the hearing, see the Project Documents section below.

A public workshop was held on August 30, 2022 (in-person) and September 1, 2022 (virtual). Documents presented at the meetings are available under the "Documents" section below.