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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