Marina Bay
Fort Myers, FL · 796 single-family homes · City of Fort Myers
zone 4 Surge
zone X Flood zone
100% of mapped
flood features
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Marina Bay at a glance
About Marina Bay
Marina Bay is a gated community of 796 single-family homes in Fort Myers, built around a large clubhouse with a full fitness center and exercise classes. Day to day, the nearest golf course, The Plantation Golf & Country Club, is about 0.9 miles straight-line from the community's center; the nearest library, East County Regional Library, is about 5.6 miles away; the nearest hospital, Lee Health Fort Myers, about 3.2 miles.
Amenities — resort amenities owned by Marina Bay of Fort Myers Homeowners Association (amenity list compiled from GL Homes' community materials and market descriptions, so confirm current amenities with the association) — include a large clubhouse with a full fitness center and exercise classes, an indoor sports court, a resort-style pool, a lap pool and a kids' pool area, a social hall, card room and game room with a catering kitchen, tennis and pickleball courts, a basketball court, a playground, party pavilion and fire pit, a full-time social director, a gated entry.
On paper, the community sits in evacuation zone D, and all of its mapped flood features (100%) fall in zone X, outside the high-risk flood area. The average assessed just value across its 848 residential parcels was $392,242 in the county's 2026 roll.
Marina Bay is a GL Homes community, and two structural facts matter more to a prospective buyer than the amenity brochure. The first is cost. Unlike the no-CDD communities scattered elsewhere across Fort Myers, Marina Bay does carry a community development district. On one sampled 2025 tax bill from an in-community parcel, the Arborwood CDD line ran $446.42 — part of roughly $970 in total non-ad-valorem assessments that also included City of Fort Myers fire rescue, residential solid waste and stormwater charges. Those amounts vary by lot, home and product type, so read that figure as a sample, never a quote.
The second is a naming quirk worth understanding before you interpret any tax record. The district on the bill reads "Arborwood CDD," not Marina Bay — the same CDD that serves The Plantation and Botanica Lakes — because Marina Bay sits inside the wider Arborwood development plan along the Treeline corridor. The homeowners association itself is Marina Bay of Fort Myers Homeowners Association, Inc., which owns the resort amenities directly. There is no separate club or golf membership attached to the home; the amenity access you fund runs through HOA dues rather than a club buy-in.
The homes are single-family — Lee County parcel data counts 796, built mostly between 2015 and 2020 — set behind a gated entry, with a clubhouse and fitness center, resort, lap and kids' pools, tennis and pickleball, a basketball court and a full-time social director among the features. A few practical notes for anyone getting serious: the community falls in evacuation Zone D and FEMA flood Zone X, fixed broadband reaches gigabit-plus fiber via Quantum Fiber, and RSW airport sits about three miles out. Confirm current dues, assessments, amenities and rules directly with the association — this page is an independent, records-based starting point, not affiliated with the HOA, developer, or any club.
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Live status from the National Weather Service and NOAA, each item stamped with the time it was checked; anything past its freshness window is removed rather than shown as current. In an approaching storm, rely on official channels first: Lee County Emergency Management ↗.
This is county map data with a retrieval date — not a flood determination for insurance or lending purposes. Confirm your parcel with the official county lookup or your insurer.
Home & property numbers
39 sales · FL DOR codes 01–02 · retrieved Aug 21 2026
Recorded prices, not an appraisal — and not a valuation of any one home.
Typical build years (5th–95th pct) · Property Appraiser · Aug 21 2026
A typical build-era band — the 5th–95th percentile of parcel build years, so a stray older or newer parcel doesn't widen it. It says nothing about how many homes went up when.
2020–2024 ACS 5-year · B19013 · retrieved Aug 4 2026 · 2 tracts
Census tracts cover an area wider than the community’s own boundary.
What it costs to live here
A worked annual example — the shape of a bill here, not a quote for any home.
Worked example — 16.5034 mills on a $400,000 rounded assessed value before exemptions (from the community’s average just value). Your own bill moves with exemptions and assessment caps.
Arborwood CDD $446.42 plus $523.19 in other non-ad-valorem items, read off one sampled 2025 bill. Varies by lot and home.
Marina Bay does not publish a fee schedule. Confirm the current amount with the HOA office before you close.
Millage Book 2025 · sampled 2025 bill
Association fees are not published here, so they are absent from this bar rather than estimated into it. Varies by lot and home; never a quote.
County roll math, one sampled tax bill and each association’s own published figures — we publish fee amounts only from official documents; amounts change annually and vary by home and exemptions. Never a quote, never tax advice.
Golf & recreation
The three closest courses to Marina Bay, nearest first.
Straight-line distances from the community center · checked Aug 2026.
Dining nearby
Nearest 8 licensed establishments · within 5 miDinner without the drive — the closest kitchens to the gate, nearest first.
From Florida food-service license records · straight-line distances · checked Aug 2026.
Local essentials
Nearest schools by distance — never an attendance-zone assignment. Official school finder ↗
Public, open ramps only.
Straight-line distances on a six-mile scale — › means a bit further out.
What's on nearby
Utilities & providers
Territory read at the community centroid — not a per-parcel guarantee.
Reported at a sampled in-community address — availability varies parcel to parcel.
Service-territory map data (checked Aug 2026) — the provider serving the area, not a guarantee of connection for any individual parcel. Confirm service and rates with the provider before relying on them.
Dates that matter in Lee County
You must own and occupy the home as your permanent residence as of January 1 to claim it for that tax year; buy after January 1 and you file for the following year.
Property Appraiser ↗The proposed-tax notice from the Property Appraiser; not a bill. You then have 25 days from its mailing date to petition the Value Adjustment Board.
FL Dept. of Revenue ↗Early-payment discounts: 4% in November, 3% December, 2% January, 1% February; a deadline landing on a weekend or holiday extends to the next business day.
Tax Collector ↗The Atlantic season per the National Hurricane Center; storms can occur outside these dates.
National Hurricane Center ↗County and state dates — the same for every Lee County community, each linked to its official source (checked Aug 2026).
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