Plans for a massive development along the Intracoastal Waterway in Fort Lauderdale received a resounding no vote from members of the Idlewyld Improvement Association recently, said association president Mary Fertig, despite a thumbs up from the city’s Central Beach Alliance in May.

The the final vote found 70 percent opposed the project, Fertig said.

“I’d thought it would be much closer,” she said.

Development group LXR Luxury Resorts and Hotels — which owns a number of ambitious hotel properties in South Florida — is looking to build a $500 million project complete with a luxury hotel, two condominium buildings, retail shops and restaurants, and an underground parking garage.

All the while, a handful of Idlewyld residents stood in the Bahia parking lot and gazed westward, across the Intracoastal Waterway to their imposing homes, and some said the new buildings would block their view of the ocean.

Fertig and association member Anne Hilmer gathered information from the city’s Planning and Zoning Board and assembled a Power Point presentation for residents before taking a vote.

“We found that LXR’s drawings of the area didn’t quite match what’s there,” Fertig said. “The buildings are really much larger.”