Community Panel to meet May 13

The Boca Grande Community Planning Panel will hold its next meeting on Tuesday, May 13 from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Crowninshield Community House, 121 Banyan Street. The public is invited to attend.

The agenda for the meeting is scheduled to include a review of a meeting with the Lee County Department of Transportation regarding several matters that the panel discussed at their April 1 meeting.

At that meeting the panel discussed items such as parallel parking on Park Avenue, adding delivery zones to the downtown area, making Park Avenue and 3rd Street a four-way stop, dual-use parking spaces on 4th Street by the Loose Caboose, and relocation of the post office drop box.

The panel also plans to review and discuss the off-island Cape Haze cumulative traffic analysis. Ted Treesh, the panel’s traffic consultant from TR Transportation Consultants Inc. has been putting the study together to determine possible hazards in an island evacuation situation, as well as for emergency vehicles going on and off Gasparilla Island.

The panel has also slated a discussion on proposed wellfield protection measures for the Gasparilla Island Water Association’s water source, which is just off County Road 771 in an industrial park.

This will be the last scheduled meeting for the panel until the fall.