Community Development District 5 is sticking with raised pavement markings on its sections of multi-modal path despite a recent engineering report and criticism from fellow officials.
“We are still in absolute support of doing it,” said CDD 5 Board Chairman Gary Kadow in a meeting Friday morning at SeaBreeze Recreation Center.
He has been in favor of installing the RPMs in an effort to improve safety on the multi-modal paths, especially at night. A majority of the CDD 5 board has concurred with Kadow on this issue.
Earlier in the week, CDD 5 was criticized at the Project Wide Advisory Committee meeting over the decision to install RPMs. The criticism was based on an engineer’s report which did not endorse the additional RPMs. However, the report suggested that if RPMs are used in a such a fashion they should be spaced at 10 feet, rather than the 20 feet, the distance at which the RPMs had been spaced on the newly modified section of multi-modal paths in CDD 5.
CDD 5 had already agreed to invest $12,000 in the RPMs. As a result of the engineer’s report, CDD 5 has now agreed to spend an additional $8,400 to ensure the RPMs are spaced 10 feet apart in accordance with the engineer’s report.