{"id":29888,"date":"2014-03-20T12:04:01","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T16:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=29888"},"modified":"2014-03-20T12:32:01","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T16:32:01","slug":"church-ordered-to-close-flea-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2014\/03\/church-ordered-to-close-flea-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Church Ordered to <br>Close Flea Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-29889\" title=\"First Community Congregation Church on Leeland Heights Blvd\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/First-Community-Congregation-Church-on-Leeland-Heights-Blvd-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/First-Community-Congregation-Church-on-Leeland-Heights-Blvd-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/First-Community-Congregation-Church-on-Leeland-Heights-Blvd.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>For the past four and half years, there has been a flea market on the parking lot of the First Community Congregation Church on Leeland Heights Blvd. But no more county has ordered its closure.<\/p>\n<p>It has been ordered to shut down and church leaders are discussing what they might do because revenue generated from the rent to several vendors.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Actually, the church was told to cease holding the flea markets on the three Saturdays a month because it violated policy in unincorporated areas of Lee County.<\/p>\n<p>There were complaints by people who complained about the &#8220;type of people&#8221; who attended the flea market. Others have complained about people parking on the street alongside the flea market.<\/p>\n<p>One of the complaints was made to code enforcement on Jan. 17 by David Gibson, who complained that the church was &#8220;running a flea market every weekend now,&#8221; according to records from code enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Lee County Code Officer Michael Ostrowski took the complaint. He did not return a call to the <em>Lehigh Acres Gazette<\/em> for a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past four and half years, there has been a flea market on the parking lot of the First Community Congregation Church on Leeland Heights Blvd. But no more&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}