City enhancement or not, members of the Idlewyld Improvement Association in Fort Lauderdale are not so quick to give a thumbs-up to a $500 million redevelopment project on the Intracoastal Waterway. But the association has still not taken a formal vote on the project.

The proposal put forth by LXR Luxury Resorts and Hotels is a big one, one that will enhance the city, LXR vice president Peter Henn said.

But residents of the Idlewyld neighborhood, which is bounded on the east by the Intracoastal Waterway and on the north by Las Olas Boulevard, aren’t so sure they want the type of development LXR is proposing. The development includes a luxury hotel, high-end residential buildings and a parking garage.

“This has been a very divisive issue,” Mary Fertig, president of the Idlewyld Improvement Association, said at a recent meeting of the group’s board of directors.

“We live in an area where traffic is a major concern,” she said. "The view of the beach would be changed dramatically.”

In January, city commissioners gave final approval to a small improvement on a two-acre vacant parking lot on the northern end of the Bahia Mar property on Seabreeze Boulevard, called Beachwalk at Bahia Mar.