Your Board spent time last year working with Lee Dept. of transportation regarding the re-paving of our neighborhood streets. At that time, we were told to anticipate the 2 days process of repaving all our streets would be spread over a 3 year period because of funding issues.
As we got to spring and early summer, our contact at Lee DOT apologized as they had used their funds and of course, we had to wait for the new government fiscal year beginning July 2019 for funding.
We are happy to announce our contact at Lee DOT affirmed that funding had passed through the County Commission and the Departments involved. The contract with the paving company is in place and we now eagerly await the date we will see our first portion of Town and River paved. With the exception of the patch work on our streets, in most cases this will be the first pacing in our community since the original paving of our community.
Originally, Lee DOT had told us all of our community’s short or smaller streets would be paved first. The following year they would add to them and by year three they would then be paving the long or larger streets. That plan has been modified and they have decided to do whole sections of the community – long and short streets in one area at a time.
We are now told the first section will include South Town and River, Deep Lagoon, Whitman and the other streets that are off those two main streets. Next year Lee DOT will choose another section of the community and your Board will communicate that information as soon as we have it.
The paving process is pretty simple and quick. The contractor will come in one day and grind the streets and take away the pavement that has been ground. The following day they will be laying pavement on all the streets that had been prepped. We are told paving will be to within 6 inches of the curbs so there are no drainage issues.
Once we know the specific dates, we will post those n the website. It’s been a long time coming – thanks to Lee DOT for listening, understanding and meeting our needs. Nice to know that 3 years from now – all of Town and River will have new streets!