Background To create a sustainable future and achieve the goals outlined in its Master Plan and Most Livable City Plan, the City of Gulf Breeze needed creative, cost-effective solutions to implement multi-modal improvements within the existing right-of-way of the City’s primary collector ‘loop’ roadway. The project included surveying, engineering, and landscape architecture services to design a new 10-foot-wide multi-use pathway along the Fairpoint Drive/Shoreline Drive loop, approximately four miles in length, that supports multi-modal transportation for bikes, carts, scooters, and other wheeled modes of transport in this active area of Gulf Breeze. To better understand the impact to all residents of Gulf Breeze, multiple community outreach efforts were conducted to educate citizens about the project and gather public input early in the project’s development, such that the input could truly influence the final design. This project also included intersection safety improvements at side streets and critical mid-block crossing locations, along with rehabilitation and upgrade of an existing 5-foot- wide sidewalk to provide an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)- compliant path for pedestrian foot traffic. A separate pile-supported wood boardwalk was designed to traverse across low lying wetlands in nearby Shoreline Park, providing interconnectivity between residential neighborhoods and the public park as well as a new public beach access along Santa Rosa Sound.
Impact The project outcomes that benefit the community includes enhanced capacity for collection and infiltration of stormwater runoff within the City’s right-of-way, the inclusion of twenty xeriscape gardens along the Multi-Use Pathway to highlight and enhance the entrances to various neighborhoods along the route, and highlighting the diversity of abundant flora and fauna within the Shoreline Park South ecosystem. It provides environmental education opportunities for local elementary, middle, and high school students while also attracting ecotourism and providing increased interconnectivity between local neighborhoods and businesses. Technical Aspects • MoDaC Mobile Data Collection was utilized, incorporating LiDAR and 360-degree videos and photographs in combination with conventional survey techniques to not only provide the necessary data points, but to generate maps, exhibits, and interactive
workstations for Public Input Meetings • Side Street Intersection Safety Upgrades • Sidewalk Rehabilitation
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