- April 19, 2024
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The Florida Department of Transportation has proposed spending more than $101 million for road and trail projects in Flagler County between fiscal year 2022/2023 and 2026/2027.
The projects include a turn lane project on Whiteview Parkway, a series of resurfacing jobs out west, the reconstruction of Jungle Hut Road, and multi-use trails in the southern and northern ends of the county, among others, FDOT Program Management Administrator Katherine Alexander told county commissioners at a Jan. 10 commission meeting, laying out FDOT's tentative 5-year-plan for work in Flagler County. Much of the $101 million would go to road and bridge repairs.
"A lot of collaboration, coordination, goes into building the tentative work program," Alexander said, "so that we can build a plan that is balanced against available resources and funding ... and that we meet all policies and regulations as well as program and priority objectives."
The plan will be formalized and adopted in July — it will then no longer be considered tentative — and will then go through an administrative and legislative approval process.
The current plan includes nine projects that are priorities for the county government, and one that's a priority for the River-to-Sea Transportation Planning Organization.
Key projects include:
Alexander said that FDOT is already starting on a tentative work plan for the following five years, and is looking at the county's request to extend Commerce Parkway — the road that passes between the plots of land where the county is building a new Sheriff's Operations Center and a new library branch.
"We’re looking at options for that, and we’ll continue to collaborate on what’s needed for that and how the department could assist," she said.
County Commissioner Greg Hansen asked her how flexible the 5-year-plan plan is, and which factors — for instance, input from the county or the state Legislature — could change it.
Both could, she said.
"There is an opportunity as long as there’s a justification for it," she said.
Commissioner David Sullivan emphasized the significance of the Commerce Parkway extension.
"Commerce Parkway to me is an important project," Sullivan said. "... Our new Sheriff’s Office is being built over there; I believe the city of Bunnell will be building their offices on that same road, so I think that’s important to get moving."
