City to hold workshops on Cape Coral Parkway corridor
The community is invited to participate in public workshops for the Cape Coral Parkway Corridor Resiliency Planning Study this week.
“The community charrette will help establish a shared 20-year vision for the Cape Coral Parkway corridor by engaging residents, businesses, and stakeholders in identifying priorities and opportunities. Input gathered during the charrette will shape recommendations for mobility, resiliency, landscaping, stormwater management, and redevelopment, creating a community-supported framework for future corridor improvements,” Public Works Principal Planner Laura Dodd said.
Key areas of focus include stormwater management, landscaping, and transportation along Cape Coral Parkway.
The first in the series will kick off this Wednesday, July 22, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Public Works Operations Center, 815 Nicholas Pkwy. E., followed by an open house and presentation Friday, July 24, also at the Public Works Operation Center. The open house will be held from 2 to 3 p.m. and the presentation from 3 to 4 p.m. Friday.
The open studio workshop will focus on reviewing current conditions and sharing ideas for the future as the project team explores solutions, while the open house will include providing community input and viewing initial ideas for the future. The presentation will provide participants with the opportunity to hear potential ideas for the future of Cape Coral Parkway from the project team.
“There are currently no early concepts as the concepts will rely heavily upon what the public would like to see, coupled with what will work from an engineering perspective,” Dodd said.
The community also has the opportunity to take an online survey to give their input as it asks about how individuals use the current corridor, what challenges they see, and what improvements they would like to see for the future.
The survey can be found at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CapeCoralPkwyCorridorPlanningStudy.
The corridor planning study is 100% grant funded. She said the study focuses on building greater corridor resiliency to extreme weather scenarios by improving traffic operations, stormwater management, and functional landscaping.
For more information on the Cape Coral Bridge Project, including the Lee County components, visit https://capecoralbridgeproject.com/project-overview
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