Robert L. King

A Tribute to Bob King-“Mr. Bella Terra” Bob, and his wife Janet, moved to Bella Terra and Estero in 2008. Soon after he was volunteering with Bella Terra neighborhood watch. In 2011 he started investigating the HOA turnover process from the developer (Lennar) to the residents of Bella Terra. In 2012 he spearheaded the Master HOA turnover process. Bob’s engineering background, process orientation and attention to detail were instrumental in understanding what we were getting as a community. Bob was elected to the first resident controlled Master HOA board in 2013 and was elected president by his peers on the board. During his 2-term tenure, he championed community document updates, new statements of work and contracts for our Management Company, gate entry and control, irrigation, and landscape maintenance. Another major task was understanding and documenting Bella Terra Master HOA’s real property. Placing a current value, and a replacement value was a time-consuming task. He was also active in the Estero Council of Community Leaders (ECCL) as the Bella Terra Representative. His involvement did not stop “behind the gates” of Bella Terra. Bob volunteered to be the ECCL Transportation chair and divided the new village into 6 districts. He sought a lead for each district, and they reported at his monthly transportation meetings. As a committee chair, he became an ECCL Board member charting the future course of the ECCL and Estero. Bob helped push the Incorporation of the Village of Estero in 2014. He swathe need for governance locally. In 2016 he was appointed, by then Lee County Commissioner Larry Kiker, to the Metropolitan Planning Organization’s Citizen Advisory Committee. He took every opportunity to voice the concerns of Bella Terra, the village of Estero, and Southwest Lee County as it concerned roads and more. A group of communities, within and outside the Village of Estero, came together to form the East Corkscrew Alliance. This ad hoc committee channeled transportation, development, and environmental concerns to local organizations, the Village of Estero, County, and State officials. Bob was a Founding member as the Bella Terra representative. In 2017 Bob was appointed to the Village of Estero Planning and Planning and Zoning Board. He took this responsibility to heart. He spent hours reviewing the Board packages prior to meetings and researching applicable documents.

Robert L. King

July 27, 1936 - August 14, 2019