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Commission endorses 17th Street mobility hub concept despite resident warnings about tree loss
Summary
Fort Lauderdale commissioners voted April 16 to endorse a preferred concept for the Southeast/Southwest 17th Street mobility hub and a related FDOT landscape MOA, while residents and neighborhood leaders pressed city staff for stronger assurances that mature trees would be preserved during design and construction.
Fort Lauderdale’s City Commission voted April 16 to endorse a preferred conceptual design for the Southeast/Southwest 17th Street mobility hub and to authorize a landscape-maintenance memorandum of agreement with the Florida Department of Transportation, even as nearby residents warned that the plan could require removal of mature trees.
The endorsement, introduced by Commissioner Sturman, allows the Broward Metropolitan Planning Organization to include the project in its funding program and advance it to the design phase. Commissioner Sturman summarized that staff and partners had narrowed multiple options to a preferred alternative intended to preserve the most trees and fill sidewalk gaps between 4th and 9th avenues.
Residents and neighborhood representatives told the…
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