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Fort Myers Beach is preparing to build a $7.4 million addition, doubling its 16,000-square-foot library.
A growing patronage, mirroring circulation increases countywide, long ago surpassed the resources of the 15-year-old building, library officials say.
However, as the beach library’s governing board moves closer to breaking ground, a pocket of last-minute opposition is growing.
About a dozen Beach residents plan to get together this week to plot a strategy for undoing the project they say blindsided an unsuspecting public. Opponents claim, with countywide population dropping about 2 percent in the last two years and the economy in a downturn, now is not the time to spend. The current library, they say, is adequate.
