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Commission and public press staff for details on Beach Drive multi-use path design, cost and FDOT standards
Summary
Public speakers and commissioners pressed staff for clearer cost accounting and for answers about design standards after FDOT indicated it may not transfer Beach Drive to the city; staff said path can proceed with FDOT right-of-way construction permits and that design updates are ongoing.
Several residents used the public-comment period on May 13 to press the commission for detailed cost and design information about the proposed Beach Drive multi-use path, prompting staff to explain design standards and next steps with FDOT.
Resident Hank Pickett (spelled variously in the record) presented a multi-page cost memo comparing a pre-design opinion of probable costs prepared for the original grant application with a more recent estimate. He asked why the latest summary ($7.5 million) omitted design fees and whether the city had exceeded previously authorized design spending. Pickett said he had been seeking a reconciliation of numbers for months and reported that design and surveying costs already billed appear to exceed the original approved design allowance.
City staff, including the city manager and project engineers, responded that the early cost figure was a…
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