TO: Honorable Mayor & Members of the North Port Commission
FROM: Jonathan R. Lewis, ICMA-CM, City Manager
TITLE: Direction and approval to acquire one or more undeveloped parcels along Eldron Avenue and Crittendon Street for the construction of a sidewalk connection to the east side sidewalk of Sumter Boulevard.
Recommended Action
Direction and approval to acquire one or more undeveloped parcels at the junction of Eldron Avenue and Crittendon Street for the construction of a sidewalk connection enhances the project currently under design.
Background Information
The Eldron Avenue/Crittendon Street Sidewalk project is currently in design with anticipated design completion in June 2017. Staff held a meeting on October 27, 2016, to solicit comments from neighborhood residents regarding the location of the sidewalk relative to the paved roadway and abutting properties. Several participants at the meeting and several phone calls received from residents suggested connecting the proposed sidewalk at the Eldron Avenue/Crittendon Street corner to the existing sidewalk along the east side of Sumter Boulevard. An existing dirt path traversing two vacant residential lots at this corner supports this suggestion.
The three northerly lots on the west side of Crittendon Street are vacant. When conducting the surveying data for the project, the design consultant had performed a tree survey on the two northerly vacant lots where the existing dirt path meanders to the Sumter Boulevard sidewalk.
Staff is seeking direction from the Commission as to whether including in the design of this short segment of sidewalk to the existing sidewalk on Sumter Boulevard enhances the project. Adding this segment of sidewalk to connect to the existing Sumter Boulevard will not negatively impact the design of the Eldron Avenue/Crittendon Street sidewalk.
The attached topographic sketch of the two adjacent vacant lots provides examples of how the short sidewalk segment may traverse th...
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