Approved and addressed. No plat, no pricing, nothing listed.

Leetana: 196 half acre to one acre homesites coming to North Fort Myers

Leetana is an approved single family community on Leetana Road in North Fort Myers, on a tract of a little over 220 acres in unincorporated Lee County. Lee County issued the development order for it in the winter of 2026, the regional water district permitted the site work, the land changed hands in the spring, and the county has already assigned addresses to 194 homesites across seven streets. There is still no recorded plat, no price, no sales center and no listing of any kind.

For a buyer, the interesting thing about Leetana is not the size of the project. It is the size of the lots. In a county where most new construction now means a 50 or 60 foot wide homesite, the county conditions here set a minimum of a full acre around the perimeter of the community and a little under half an acre inside it, with stables permitted on the larger homesites. That is a genuinely different product, and it comes with a genuinely different set of costs that nobody is going to volunteer at a sales desk, starting with the fact that every home here will be on its own septic system.

This page is what the public record says about Leetana, including the parts that cut against it, and it names the things we could not establish rather than rounding them off. If you want to know when pricing and plans are released, the list is at the bottom.

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What is on record, and what has not been released

On record

• Lee County has issued the development order for construction of a 196 lot single family subdivision, covering the roads, the stormwater system, a water main extension and landscaping, with wastewater by septic. An issued development order is a real approval by a real agency, not an application.
• The underlying zoning was approved years earlier as a residential planned development with a ceiling of 201 units, and an administrative amendment to the plan was approved in the winter of 2026.
• The regional water management district permit for the site work is issued and current, covering roughly 216 acres.
• Addresses have been assigned to 194 homesites across seven streets, which in Florida normally happens shortly before construction permits are pulled.
• The county approved master plan names Maronda Homes as the homebuilder in its title block, which is the only place in the record where a builder is identified.
• The land, a little over 220 acres, was acquired in the spring of 2026 by an institutional land banking owner. Land banking firms of this kind finance for sale production builders and take their return when the builder buys lots back, which is the opposite of a rental strategy.
• A preserve of about twenty acres is set aside inside the project, and the internal roads are to be private.

Not released

• Pricing. There is none, for any homesite or any plan.
• Floor plans, square footages, elevations or renderings.
• A recorded plat. Until one records, no individual homesite legally exists to be sold.
• Homeowners association dues, budget or governing documents.
• A start date, a phasing plan or a delivery schedule.
• The final marketing name, and whether a gate or amenities are planned.

One number worth untangling before you see it quoted at you. The issued development order covers 196 lots. The older zoning approval set a cap of 201 units. The county has assigned 194 addresses. All three are real records from different stages of the same project, and the 196 figure is the current, approved one.

The lots, which are the whole point here

The county conditions on this approval set out the lot standards directly, and they are unusually generous for new construction in Lee County. Homesites around the perimeter of the community carry a minimum area of one acre and a minimum width of 100 feet. Interior homesites carry a minimum of 20,000 square feet, a little under half an acre, and a minimum width of 65 feet. Buildings are capped at 35 feet in height and may cover no more than 45 percent of the homesite.

Read that carefully, because it describes a community that transitions from estate acreage on the outside to something closer to conventional large lot suburban on the inside. Where your homesite sits in that gradient will matter more to your experience, and probably to your price, than the floor plan you choose. When a plat finally records and homesites are released, the first question to ask is which ones are perimeter and which are interior.

You may also run into a figure of 6,500 square feet attached to this project in the zoning paperwork. That is an open space calculation trigger in the county land development code and it has nothing to do with how big the lots are. Anyone quoting it as the lot minimum here has misread the document.

The approval also allows stables on homesites of 40,000 square feet or more, and the approved street names run to an equestrian theme throughout. That is a permission in a county document, not an advertised amenity, and the governing documents that do not yet exist will have the final say on what a homeowner may actually keep. But it tells you what kind of community was approved, and it is consistent with the rural character of this stretch of North Fort Myers.

Seven streets, and the name question

The addressed streets inside Leetana are Saddle Ridge Drive, which carries by far the largest share of the homesites, Hannah Oaks Way, Virginia Oaks Way, Stable Run, Colt Meadow Lane, Bridle Oak Court and Amber Field Court. If you are driving the area and want to see the ground before anyone is marketing it, those are the names to look for off Leetana Road.

On the name itself: the county calls this project Leetana, after the road, and that is the name on every approval document. Saddle Ridge Drive being the principal street, there is a reasonable chance the community eventually goes to market as Saddle Ridge or something adjacent to it. We are telling you that is a guess rather than publishing it as the name, and we have built this page so that it answers to Leetana, to Saddle Ridge and to the road address, because a buyer who hears one name should be able to find the same honest information.

Septic, water, and the obligations that come with them

This is the most important practical fact on the page and it is the one a brochure will never lead with. Leetana has no sewer. The approval is explicit that wastewater is handled by an individual septic system on each homesite.

Not an ordinary septic system, either. The conditions require advanced nitrogen reducing systems, which cost substantially more to install and more to maintain than a conventional tank and drainfield, and they require a setback from waterbodies. On top of that, the homeowners association is obliged to inspect the systems, to remediate failures and to report to the county annually, in perpetuity. That is an unusual and fairly onerous condition, and it means the association in this community has a technical compliance job rather than just a landscaping contract.

Three things follow for a buyer. First, your dues here are likely to be doing real work and should not be compared like for like against a community on sewer. Second, a septic system is a capital item on your own homesite with a finite life, and replacing an advanced unit is a serious expense that no association covers for you. Third, when the governing documents exist, read what they say about access to your homesite for inspection and what happens if your system fails a report.

Drinking water is a separate question and a genuinely unresolved one. The development order calls for a water main extension to serve the community, which implies a utility connection, but the county utility service and future service records return nothing for this parcel, only a wastewater franchise, and one of the approval conditions references drawing potable water from the aquifer instead. We could not reconcile those, so we are not going to tell you which it will be. Ask, in writing, before you sign: whether the home is on a public water main or a well, who the utility is, and what the connection or impact fees are. On an acreage homesite the difference is thousands of dollars and a different maintenance life entirely.

Flood mapping and the floodway

Part of this property is mapped inside the special flood hazard area, with published base flood elevations, and part of it is mapped outside. That alone would be ordinary for Lee County.

The more consequential detail is that a mapped regulatory floodway runs along the creek that crosses the property. A floodway is a stricter designation than the flood hazard area around it: it is the channel that has to stay clear to carry the flood, and placing fill or structures in it is tightly restricted. The approved plan carries a condition about not filling it and about the federal map revision process, which tells you the engineers were working around it rather than through it.

For a buyer this is a homesite level question with real money attached. Two homesites on the same street in this community can carry different flood insurance requirements and different costs. Before you commit to a specific address, have the flood determination pulled for that address, ask whether an elevation certificate will be provided at closing, and get a flood insurance quote rather than an estimate. In a community where the mapping is this uneven, that is not a formality.

Taxes, insurance and the real cost of living here

On property taxes, this site sits in a Lee County tax district that includes the Bayshore fire and rescue levy. The total certified ad valorem rate for that district was about 14.41 mills for 2025, which is roughly 1.44 percent of taxable value a year, including a school levy of about 5.32 mills and a fire levy of about 3.50 mills. The county publishes that rate with an explicit warning that it excludes all non ad valorem assessments, so treat it as the base and not the bill.

The good news is what is absent. There is no community development district here, and no stewardship district either. In Lee County a stewardship district is created by a special act of the state legislature rather than by county ordinance, which is a distinction that trips up most online research, and we checked both instruments against this parcel. Neither applies, which means no bond assessment on your tax bill for decades, the single largest hidden cost in most new Florida communities.

The trade off is the association. Because there is no district to own the infrastructure, the approval conditions put it all on the homeowners association: the private roads and their eventual resurfacing, the closed drainage system, groundwater monitoring in perpetuity and the annual septic compliance work. Expect a real dues figure rather than a token one, and when the budget is published, look for whether it funds a paving and drainage reserve or defers it.

If this will be your permanent home, Florida's homestead exemption is the biggest single break on the tax side, and the additional exemption band is set statewide by Florida law rather than by any county, bringing the combined figure to 51,411 dollars of assessed value for 2026. Homestead also caps how fast your assessed value can climb afterwards, which over a long hold is usually worth more than the exemption itself.

On insurance, be realistic. This is inland North Fort Myers, several miles from open water, which is a meaningfully better wind and surge position than the coastal and riverfront parts of Lee County. It is still Lee County, which took a direct and historic hurricane hit in 2022, and premiums across the whole county reset hard afterwards. A new home built to the current code, on an inland site, with a new roof, prices far better than the older stock that drives the county averages you will read about. Get an actual quote on the specific plan and homesite before you finalise your budget, and ask what the wind mitigation credits will be.

Where this is, and what the area is like

Leetana Road runs through the rural eastern side of North Fort Myers, in the corridor north of the Caloosahatchee and inland of the Bayshore Road area. The character out here is acreage: large parcels, some agricultural use, scattered older homes on big lots, and a handful of new communities pushing into it. It is not the dense, gridded Cape Coral pattern a few miles west, and it is not a built out suburb.

Practically, the draw is being within reach of a lot of Southwest Florida without paying coastal prices. Interstate 75 is the spine for this part of the county and gives you the run south toward downtown Fort Myers and the airport and north toward Punta Gorda. Cape Coral is across the river to the west. Babcock Ranch, the large planned town that has become the regional reference point for new development, is to the northeast. Downtown Fort Myers, with the restaurants and the river district, is the nearest real urban centre.

We are not publishing drive times, because the only distances we can verify are straight line and a straight line is not a drive, particularly in a county where the river crossings concentrate the traffic. Put the street names into a map against the places you actually need to be and judge it for yourself. What we will say plainly is that this is a car dependent location with no walkable services, which is the normal trade for acreage.

Schools, and how Lee County assignment really works

Lee County does not do what most districts do. Instead of drawing an attendance boundary around each school and assigning your address to it, the district runs a choice system built on proximity zones: you apply, you rank schools, and assignment weighs where you live among other factors. This site falls in one of those proximity zones rather than inside a single school's catchment.

That means nobody, including us, can honestly tell you which school a child at this address will attend. What we can tell you is what is nearby. The closest public campus is a combined kindergarten through eighth grade school under two miles away as the crow flies. The nearest high schools are several miles off, in the North Fort Myers and Cape Coral directions. If schools are a deciding factor in this purchase, go to the district before you go to a contract, confirm the current zone for this address and understand how the application window works, because it does not wait for your closing date.

Buying at this stage, with someone on your side

Leetana is early enough that there is nothing to tour and nothing to reserve, which is precisely why it is worth understanding the process now rather than in the week pricing drops.

A new construction purchase runs on the builder's contract, not the standard resale form. Those agreements are drafted for the builder and generally give it room on delivery timing, on substituting materials, and on the conditions under which your deposit is at risk, and they often tie an incentive to using the builder's own lender or title company. On an acreage community with septic there is more to read than usual: who is responsible for the septic installation and its permits, what happens if a homesite fails a soil or percolation test, and what is included in the lot premium.

The timing point is the one that costs people real money. On new construction the builder has already budgeted for a buyer's agent whether you bring one or not, so representation generally costs you nothing. But you typically have to be represented from your first visit or your first registration with the builder. Register alone, and a builder can decline to recognise anyone you bring afterwards. At Leetana there is no sales center to walk into yet, which means you still have the option open.

One more thing specific to this project. Until a plat records, individual homesites do not legally exist. A reservation taken before that point is a different and weaker instrument than a contract on a platted lot, and if someone offers you a priority position in the meantime, read what it actually binds and what it refunds.

What we are watching next

The next public signals from Leetana are predictable, and any of them will trigger an update to this page and a note to the list. A recorded plat, which is the big one, because it creates the homesites and usually lands within a few months of a sales launch. A clearing or construction permit on the site. A price release or a plan sheet with figures attached. A sales center or a model. The first listing inside the project.

We are also watching three open items that would change what a buyer should expect to pay here: which utility ends up supplying drinking water, what the association budget and dues come out at given the septic and monitoring obligations, and whether the builder named on the county plan is in fact the builder that launches it. The approval was issued in the winter of 2026 and the land closed in the spring, so by the ordinary rhythm of these projects, movement is more likely than not in the coming months.

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How this works, and who we are

Subdiview is operated from Illinois and the broker behind it is licensed in Illinois, not in Florida. We are not a Florida brokerage and we are not your agent. What we do for a Florida community like this one is research it properly, publish what the record actually says, and refer you to a licensed Florida real estate professional who can represent you in the transaction. We are compensated by that professional's brokerage, not by you.

We are not affiliated with Maronda Homes, with the owner of the land, or with Lee County or any other government body named on this page. Maronda Homes appears here because it is the homebuilder named on the county approved master plan for this community, which is a single document and the only place in the record where a builder is identified. It is not a launch announcement, it is not confirmation that this builder will be the one to sell homes here, and nothing on this page should be read as a statement on its behalf.

Everything here is drawn from public records, and we have said plainly where a record could not be reached or a fact could not be established rather than filling the gap. We did not search civil court dockets for this community and we make no representation about litigation, liens or financing instruments affecting it. Lot counts, approvals and conditions can be amended. Dates and delivery expectations are targets and they change. Figures carry the date they were current as of, and tax rates and premiums move. Verify anything that will decide your purchase against the primary record for the specific address before you rely on it.