The day we've been waiting for is almost here.
On Monday, June 1st at 9:00 AM, Lee County will hold a Code Enforcement Hearing at the downtown government complex on the most important violation we've documented to date against All Florida Industrial Fabrication, Inc. at 17751 Nalle Rd — VIO2026-01180.
This is the hearing that puts the core question on the record: Is heavy industrial manufacturing allowed on AG-2 agricultural land in Lee County? The answer, under Lee County's own Land Development Code, is unambiguously no — and we now have the county's own enforcement staff saying so in writing.
🎥 Watch what we live next to — almost every day of the week: 👉 https://vimeo.com/1192275423
That grinding is not a "once in a while" inconvenience. It runs nearly every day of the week — including Saturdays — directly across the property line from family homes, gardens, and livestock. The only day this neighborhood gets a break is Sunday. That is what AG-2 land has been turned into.
📂 What VIO2026-01180 actually says
This is the violation that goes before the Hearing Examiner on June 1st. Straight from the Lee County Code Enforcement record:
"Permitted Use — Operating a business registered as ALL FLORIDA INDUSTRIAL FABRICATION, INC., STRUCTURES DESIGN & CONSULTING, INC. (classified as Fabricated Metal Products Manufacturing pursuant to LDC Section 34-622(c)(14)), including open storage of shipping containers, industrial material, equipment, commercial vehicles, and trailers on AG-2 zoned property."
In plain English: Lee County's Code Enforcement Division has formally classified the operation as a Fabricated Metal Products Manufacturing facility — and is citing the property owner for running it on land zoned AG-2 (Agricultural), where this type of industrial use is not permitted.
🔗 View the official record: VIO2026-01180 on the Lee County Citizen Access Portal
Status: Hearing Scheduled — June 1, 2026
📚 Let's break down the code — so every supporter understands exactly what's at stake
🔹 What is AG-2? AG-2 is one of Lee County's three Agricultural Districts (AG-1, AG-2, AG-3). Under Table 34-653 of the Land Development Code, AG-2 is designed for things like farming, agricultural accessory uses, single-family residences, horses, agritourism, and limited agricultural processing of products primarily grown on the premises. It is a rural, low-intensity zone — the opposite of an industrial park.
🔹 What is Section 34-622(c)(14)? Section 34-622 of the Lee County LDC is titled "Use Activity Groups." It's the master list the county uses to categorize every type of land use — retail, residential, cultural, industrial, and so on — into numbered groups. Each zoning district's use table (like Table 34-653 for AG-2) then references these groups to determine what is permitted, permissible by special exception, or prohibited.
Subsection (c)(14) is "Fabricated Metal Products Manufacturing" — a heavy industrial use activity group. It covers exactly the kind of work the federal government (under SIC Major Group 34 / NAICS 332) defines as fabricated metal product manufacturing: cutting, welding, forging, stamping, bending, forming, machining, and assembling of ferrous and nonferrous metal — including structural metal for bridges, buildings, and large industrial components.
That is heavy industry. Full stop.
🔹 Where IS this use allowed? Under Lee County's LDC, "Fabricated Metal Products Manufacturing" is permitted in the county's Industrial Districts (IL — Light Industrial, IG — General Industrial, IPD — Industrial Planned Development) per Section 34-903's use regulations table. It is NOT listed as a permitted, accessory, or special-exception use anywhere in the AG-2 column of Table 34-653.
🔹 What about the "open storage" piece? The violation also calls out open outdoor storage of shipping containers, industrial materials, commercial vehicles, and trailers. Even if someone tried to argue this was "accessory" to a farm, Lee County's own code annotations make clear that an accessory use must be "customarily incidental and subordinate to a principal building or use" on the property — meaning incidental to actual agriculture. A row of shipping containers and a metal fab shop is not incidental to farming. It IS the principal use, and it's the wrong one for this zoning.
🧾 This is not the only violation
VIO2026-01180 is the lead case — but Code Enforcement has stacked up a full record on this property. From the public portal at 17751 Nalle Rd:
VIO2026-01176 — Shed without a permit (Hearing Scheduled)
VIO2026-01177 — Accessory structure / roof-over addition without a permit (Hearing Scheduled)
VIO2026-01178 — Accessory structure (southwest corner) without a permit (Hearing Scheduled)
VIO2026-01179 — Accessory structure without a permit (Hearing Scheduled)
VIO2026-01180 — Illegal industrial use on AG-2 (Hearing Scheduled — June 1st)
That's a pattern. Not an accident. Not a misunderstanding. A pattern.
📣 What you can do RIGHT NOW
Share this petition with one neighbor today — text it, email it, post it. We need every signature we can get before the hearing.
Watch and share the video: https://vimeo.com/1192275423 — let people hear what AG-2 has been turned into.
We didn't ask for an industrial fabrication shop next door. My wife and I purchased 17601 Nalle Road in July 2019 because it was peaceful. We renovated this home, cleaned up the land, and raised our children here. Unfortunately, we have no choice but to continue this fight. Nobody deserves this.
Matt Angerer
Neighbor at 17601 Nalle Rd and Concerned Citizen
814-860-6872