Special magistrate closes The Goods case after owner attains compliance; $250 administrative fee assessed

Special Magistrate John Van Laningham signed an order closing a code-enforcement case after Nautical Marketing LLC brought 1698 Estero Boulevard — known as The Goods — into compliance, the Fort Myers Beach hearing record shows.

The town’s attorney, Nancy Stupridge of the Vos Law Firm, told the magistrate that the parties had negotiated a stipulation and that compliance was achieved. “We were able to facilitate a compliance of the violation that had been cited,” Stupridge said during the May 16 hearing.

The magistrate accepted documents into the record and asked whether the town was seeking administrative costs. Stupridge asked the magistrate to accept the town’s standard $250 administrative fee. Jackie Lizak, identified in the hearing as the registered agent for Nautical Marketing LLC, asked for relief from the fee on the grounds that the business was struggling, but said the respondent would pay the amount if relief was not granted.

Van Laningham said the town is statutorily authorized to recover costs and that the $250 figure is a standard, nominal amount the town has imposed across cases. He approved the stipulation and assessed the $250 administrative fee to close the matter.

The magistrate also declined to resolve a hypothetical future-repeat-offense question in the final order, saying that whether a later matter would be treated as a repeat offense should be decided only if and when such a violation arises.

No fines were imposed because the violation had been corrected, and the parties were instructed to submit a proposed order memorializing the stipulation for the magistrate’s signature.