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Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Road would link State 79, Pier Park
Preliminary planning for road underway By VALERIE GARMAN
747-5076 | @valeriegarman vgarman@pcnh.com PANAMA CITY BEACH — A “Back” Back Beach Road might be in Panama City Beach’s future after all. The city is in the preliminary planning stages of extending the existing portion of Pier Park Drive north of U.S. 98 and routing it to the west to intersect with State 79. The extension of Pier Park Drive potentially could serve as the long-rumored initial stage of a project to create what city officials are calling a “Back” Back Beach Road in Panama City Beach. City Manager Mario Gisbert said the project is important because the extension “basically becomes the first leg of
what someday would be … what we’re calling ‘Back’ Back Beach Road.” “There are some long-, long-, long-term projects out there. This is looking way out in the future,” Gisbert said. Gisbert said the initial projectwillberecommended to the Florida Department of Transportation by the Bay County Transportation Planning Organization (TPO), an agency responsible for examining the county road system and prioritizing projects based on funding availability. So far, no money has been allocated for the proposal. On the TPO’s 2035 Long Range Transportation Plan, “Back” Back Beach Road is mapped out to begin at Richard Jackson Boulevard and run parallel to U.S. 98
west into Walton County, ending on U.S. 98 just west of County 30A. Gisbert said the TPO will elevate the project to “cost feasible” during its 2014 update. The city also is in discussions with the land owners, The St. Joe Co., regarding the expansion of Pier Park Drive, Gisbert said. “This is something the city is always looking at, … making Back Beach Road more efficient, especially with all the new development,” said Gisbert, who noted the FDOT is considering the project. The existing stretch of Pier Park Drive to the north of Back Beach Road lies directly west of the Pier Park North shopping center site, a 360,000-square-foot development slated to open in the spring.
“This is something the city is always looking at, … making Back Beach Road more efficient...” Mario Gisbert City Manager Bay County Commissioner Mike Thomas said the project also would help in easing traffic congestion at State 79 and Back Beach Road
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residents that the route causes congestion, especially at the busy Back Beach intersection. Thomas agreed the expansion also would help ease traffic in the area year-round. “With this new construction over there it will also make a difference, with” Pier Park North, Thomas said. “It would make a huge difference there, I would imagine.”
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