Network enhancements are being implemented in these areas through the development of regional impact (DRI) review process and through the preparation of small area plans. For example, the Port St. Lucie Community Redevelopment Agency is producing a series of small area plans to create a commercial town center along U.S. 1 and a series of mixed-use pedestrian and transit- friendly districts with improved street networks. The plans were prepared through significant community participation and are in varying stages of development and implementation. The Village Green Drive corridor revitalization project, for example, is examining opportunities for multimodal improvements, public art and landscape treatments to complement a downtown center and improve connectivity, accessibility and aesthetics between Crosstown Parkway and key economic, community and healthcare hubs along the corridor. The project documents highlight the importance of complete streets. St. Lucie County Comprehensive Plan Objective 2.1.4 in the Transportation Element of the Comprehensive Plan describes the County’s intention to acquire and maintain right-of-way through the uses of a thoroughfare right-of-way protection plan. Policies associated with this objective involve prohibiting encroachment, requiring setbacks, requiring dedication of right-of-way through development orders, reviews of development plans for future land use and transportation impacts, and use of minimum right-of-way standards. Specifics on standards and methods for executing these policies are located in the St. Lucie Land Development Code (Table 16). Table 16. St. Lucie County Corridor Preservation Objectives and Policies
Objective 2.1.4
St. Lucie County shall acquire and maintain right-of-way for the roadway network based upon the right-of-way protection plan, Transportation Element and the Future Land Use Element of this plan.
Policy 2.1.4.1 Prohibit encroachment of development and required setbacks into established present and future rights-of-way and, within the law, require dedication of right-of-way through development orders issued by the County. Policy 2.1.4.2 Review all proposed development plans for impact on the future land use plan and assess the capacity needs of each project as it relates to the thoroughfare right-of-way protection plan by requiring a traffic impact analysis, as further described in the County's LDC, with proposed development applications.
Source: Transportation Element, St. Lucie County Comprehensive Plan, Adopted 4/2/2019.
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