City Manager's Annual Report 2017 | A Year In Review | Page 21

Q U A L I T Y O F L I F E | 21 2. The City Council approved two highly anticipated 10-year master plans during its July 2017 SIDEWALK Summer Retreat. Sidewalks and road repaving AND ROAD are popular topics among residents, and in an RESURFACING effort to keep the public informed, new web pages were developed to specifically outline significant details of each plan. The City aspires to install as much sidewalk as possible for safety and convenience. The Sidewalk Plan focuses on three areas: Roads surrounding schools, major roadways and roads connecting to already existing sidewalks. The repaving plan primarily focuses on the maintenance of local streets, but two-lane and arterial roadways are occasionally included. Ideally, roads in Florida should be repaved every 15 to 20 years, but budget constraints have led City officials to adopt a “worst-first” approach, while still paving roads equally across all four City districts. To learn more about sidewalks, road improvements and other major projects happening in PSL, visit the City’s website: www.cityofpsl.com The City’s Public Works Department is utilizing a pavement management modeling software to evaluate the roads and all applicable treatment scenarios to provide the most efficient treatment strategy at the proper time in the pavement lifecycle. 3. Improvements to the Floresta Drive FLORESTA DRIVE corridor are a priority for the City Council, and, at its 2017 Summer CONCEPTUAL Retreat, directed staff to model the PLAN corridor from a traffic standpoint for both a two-lane and four-lane roadway configuration. In October 2017, at a special meeting packed with residents who live along the corridor, the City Council approved a new two travel-lane conceptual master plan for Floresta Drive from Southbend to Prima Vista Boulevards. The plan calls for a two travel-lane urban section, bike lanes, curb and gutter, underground drainage, sidewalks, street trees and strategically placed roundabouts and turn-around areas. Looking to the future, the City plans to hold community workshops to finalize the plan, develop phases, schedules and cost estimates. To learn more, visit the Floresta Drive webpage at www.cityofpsl.com. CITY OF PORT ST. LUCIE A N N U A L R E P O R T 2017