Florida Sound-off

[U_Stormcrow]

This is Ponce, second largest city in the county. (Post office is obscured by trees in this photo, courtesy Google maps). There's a small cemetary just past that. The High School (and the second church) are about 4 miles up the road, outside city limits.

The restaurant was something or other #2 (#1 closed a long time back), It shut down in the last 12 months. Opposite side of the road is a looks to be condemned building used to be a farmer's market, and an abandoned antiques/second hand store.

If you continue down the road between the gas station and the Sheriff's room, in 29 miles you will be in Alabama, the town of Sampson. Its much larger, but has definitely "seen better days". If instead you drive down county road 10 off to the right, you will pass by Westeville on your way to Bonifay (about 30 miles)

Not sure what you may have been imagining, but I'm guessing this wasn't it.

 

[FeatherMomma]

This is Ponce, second largest city in the county. (Post office is obscured by trees in this photo, courtesy Google maps). There's a small cemetary just past that. The High School (and the second church) are about 4 miles up the road, outside city limits.

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The restaurant was something or other #2 (#1 closed a long time back), It shut down in the last 12 months. Opposite side of the road is a looks to be condemned building used to be a farmer's market, and an abandoned antiques/second hand store.

If you continue down the road between the gas station and the Sheriff's room, in 29 miles you will be in Alabama, the town of Sampson. Its much larger, but has definitely "seen better days". If instead you drive down county road 10 off to the right, you will pass by Westeville on your way to Bonifay (about 30 miles)

Not sure what you may have been imagining, but I'm guessing this wasn't it.

it was close. Just a few more brick buildings from the bygone days and it's exactly what I was thinking.

 

[Vorenus41]

Lee County is bizarre. People inside the city limits of Fort Myers are allowed to have chickens and something like 25 households in the Bonita Springs city limits can have chickens at any given time, but people who live in unincorporated Lee county with more land and in more rural areas are not allowed unless they are zoned AG. There are lots of people with 1/2 Acre+ properties in pretty rural areas that are zoned Residential and not allowed to have chickens, but if they moved onto a sub 1/4 acre property in the more densely populated areas of Fort Myers they can. There have been attempts to legalize in for the whole county, but county commissioners have blocked it from even going to a vote.

 

[NorthFLChickenChick]

Lee County is bizarre. People inside the city limits of Fort Myers are allowed to have chickens and something like 25 households in the Bonita Springs city limits can have chickens at any given time, but people who live in unincorporated Lee county with more land and in more rural areas are not allowed unless they are zoned AG. There are lots of people with 1/2 Acre+ properties in pretty rural areas that are zoned Residential and not allowed to have chickens, but if they moved onto a sub 1/4 acre property in the more densely populated areas of Fort Myers they can. There have been attempts to legalize in for the whole county, but county commissioners have blocked it from even going to a vote.

Ugh...just reading this as someone looking to relocate from Baker to Lee County. Have 23 hens and 4 Roos...guess Lee isn't going to work. What do you know about Charlotte and Hendry? I mean, I'm not sure if I'm going to take my entire flock but reducing it down to 4 girls and no Roos is just not something that I think I can deal with

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Ugh...just reading this as someone looking to relocate from Baker to Lee County. Have 23 hens and 4 Roos...guess Lee isn't going to work. What do you know about Charlotte and Hendry? I mean, I'm not sure if I'm going to take my entire flock but reducing it down to 4 girls and no Roos is just not something that I think I can deal with

Head west, dear poster, head west.

There is plenty of relatively cheap land in quantity where chickens are welcome north of 10 (as you are) between Bonifay and Crestview and Allentown. Not sure what other amenities you need nearby, but my wife and I drove much of that area looking at properties. A surprising amount isn't flood zone, though there are some low lying areas throughout. South of 10 in the Panhandle is much more prone to flooding, tornadoes, and hurricane damage.

We also looked as far south as Bell, and the Alachua county area. After the storms this year, glad we didn't get the 20a property we first bid on. They got "wet".