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Miami Beach presents 30% design for Meridian Avenue multiuse path
Summary
City staff presented a 30% design for a 10-foot-wide, off-street multiuse path along Meridian Avenue (Dade Boulevard to W. 28th Street), describing landscape mitigation, soil remediation, lighting and coordination with the neighboring golf course.
City of Miami Beach project staff on a virtual community call presented a 30% design for a 10-foot-wide shared-use path that would run from Dade Boulevard north along Meridian Avenue to West 28th Street and tie into the Prairie Avenue connection. Carla Lopez, project manager with the Office of Capital Improvements, said the project is intended to close a gap in the city’s pedestrian and bicycle master plan and provide a separated route for pedestrians and cyclists.
"It's a shared use path, so it means it's a path to be used by pedestrians and cyclists, and it is separated from traffic just for an added level of safety," Lopez said during the presentation.
Designers described the typical section as a 10-foot-wide concrete path in the city's Miami Beach red with 2-foot sod strips on either side. Arnoldo Ramon, the project civil engineer, said crews will try to avoid existing vegetation but where removal is necessary the team will relocate or mitigate trees and hedges.
"Because of the proximity of the path to the golf course, the existing soils are contaminated. So in that buffer, we'll be excavating the existing material, placing some clean fill," Ramon said, describing a planned remediation step where the path runs near the golf course swale.
The team said lighting will be provided for path users—intended for the path and not to augment roadway lighting—and that the city typically uses an "Albert Sloan maxi post" fixture in similar projects. Designers also said they are coordinating with the golf course to identify locations where denser vegetation, screening hedges and, if needed, limited netting would reduce the risk of stray golf balls reaching users.
Project staff noted this is a 30% design outreach. Carla Lopez said the design review board presentation is scheduled for next Thursday at 9 a.m., and that a post‑meeting recap, a recording and a project web page will be posted for additional information and follow-up contact.
The project team said the path is one segment in a multi-year effort to implement the city's transportation master plan; funding, permitting and coordination with other city departments will determine timing and final scope.
