NEIGHBORHOODS
Cook is serious about improvements to his street. So much
so that he’s become a neighborhood activist and started a
Facebook blog, which has more than 65 followers, to keep
everyone up to date.
In January, engineers met with residents to learn their reactions
to the two-lane plan and let them look closely at plans
spread out on long tables and displayed on easels.
In March, a second workshop gave residents the opportunity
to inspect tweaks in the plan resulting from comments
made during the January workshop.
“It was a very positive town hall meeting,” Cook said. “The
city engineer’s theme was to preserve the residential integrity
and to have plenty of greenery and trees.”
SAFETY MAJOR CONCERN
The Floresta remake starts at Southbend Boulevard and
ends at Prima Vista. It includes a median strip, sidewalks,
bike lanes and lighting that Cook describes as lantern-like.
The street runs through a densely populated area with singlefamily
homes on quarter-acre lots and an elementary school.
Residents told the city council in October that they’d seen
cars traveling upwards of 50 miles an hour and that they
feared for children walking to and from school, especially
where there were no sidewalks.
After seven traffic studies in less than three months, and at
the recommendation of Police Chief John Bolduc, the council
voted in early January to give Floresta a 35-mile-an-hour
speed limit from Prima Vista to Port St. Lucie Boulevard.
Previously it had several different speed limits in different
areas. Making it consistent would make it safer, Bolduc said.
In March, a car traveling at a high rate of speed crashed >>
Steven Cook, in the blue scrubs, is one of many residents who attended
two workshops on the Floresta Drive plans.
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