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Welcome to the Sanibel ROCKS website!

The Rocks Civic Association, a neighborhood organization that serves an area from the West Winds Inn to the end of West Gulf Drive including Rabbit Road, and East and West Rocks, (excluding Sea Oats which has a separate association), was established on January 26, 1970. The following month, the Association was incorporated in the State on February 6, 1970. The organization's founding documents note that it was established for "charitable and philanthropic purposes".

The incorporating document states that the "objects and purposes of the corporation should be to better enhance, beautify and oversee the general welfare, safety and civic betterment regarding both preserves and property of that section of Lee County, Florida on Sanibel Island known as the Sanibel Rocks area."
The original papers of incorporation defined eligible membership as being "paid landowners in the Rocks area." In April of 1992, the definition of membership was changed to "all persons who reside in the Sanibel Rocks area".

The Association’s first newsletter dated 1993 notes that President George McKinnell wrote in 1992 “… about the feeling among participants that better communications was needed and in a desire to facilitate this the Board has turned to this newsletter format.”

One of the earliest newsletters, reporting on the early history of the area, noted, “The Rocks (later to become West Rocks) was platted in 1959. By 1965, the Sanibel Rocks Property Owners Association was formed. Someone had to keep the neighborhood tidy, move in the rocks, plant the boulevard trees, and mow the grass. Every few weeks according to Colonel Robert Aycock, ‘the men would fall out and do what needed to be done.’ The next subdivision was East Rocks in 1965. Now there was a need for organization. The Association was incorporated and became the Rocks Civic Association in 1970”.

Minutes of an early meeting of the Association noted that in 1972 the Board was composed of five members and had a membership of 72. Today the Board is composed of 15 members and the Association 310 members.

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And as a reminder that the more things change the more they remain the same, at the time of formation, the Association urged "other neighborhoods to organize and to support the Sanibel-Captiva Planning Board in their fight to control density and impose height restrictions" and to continue the battle to to ensure that "the Rocks area is limited to single family homes."

We hope you enjoy the Association's webpage and refer to it often. Please use it as a means of communicating with your neighbors in the Rocks and look on it as a modern age community bulletin board. Remember to fill out the questionnaire and send in your evaluation of service providers who have worked in or at home so we may build up our resource file of recommended Sanibel tradespeople.

We look forward to hearing from you.

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ROCKS Civic Association of Sanibel
P.O. Box 281
Sanibel Island FL 33957