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Vero Beach Council advances downtown revitalization plan and seeks faster design work for Pocahontas Park
Summary
Councilors directed city staff to pursue short- and mid-term actions from the downtown master plan, using EDC funds for streetscape and wayfinding projects, and asked staff to accelerate design work on Pocahontas Park, which has $1.4 million in next-year CIP funding.
Vero Beach City Council members on Feb. 11 directed staff to move forward with a staged action plan to implement the downtown master plan, focusing first on short-term streetscape improvements and starting design work for a larger Pocahontas Park renovation.
The council asked staff to use Economic Development Council (EDC) funds for immediate projects such as Fourteenth Avenue streetscape elements, benches and planters, a downtown wayfinding program and to continue design work on the street-lighting project already in progress. Jason (staff member) told the council that “short term actions are really those things will start and hopefully, like, complete, let's say, in 6 months or in this fiscal year.”
Why it matters: Councilors framed the initiative as a mix of near-term visual improvements to support merchants and longer-range zoning, comprehensive-plan and capital projects that require consultant work and ordinance updates. The council and…
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