PLANNING DEPARTMENT
A NEW PATHWAY FOR TRANSPORTATION
T
he Planning Department in conjunction with
or a County/City multi-mobility fee to coordinate Coun-
the City Manager’s office has brought on board,
ty and City efforts. The mobility fee can provide the City
NUE Urban Concepts (NUC), a transportation
with a unified revenue funding source paid by new de-
planning firm with multi-mobility expertise to develop a
velopment and redevelopment that creates additional
combined mobility plan and mobility fee for the City of
travel demand that controls and prioritizes multimodal
Fort Pierce. To effectively move people and provide mo-
projects that are identified in a mobility plan. The mobil-
bility choices requires a mobility plan that looks beyond
ity plan is also an opportunity to integrate the establish-
just new and wider roads.
ment of “park-once” environments within our downtown and to the beach area. Additionally, the mobility plan
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A mobility plan that considers integrating land uses, peo-
can develop innovative shared parking policies and fee
ple focused complete streets, innovative parking strate-
in lieu of parking to encourage infill and redevelopment.
gies, with the groundwork established for new micro-mo-
The proposed mobility plan is projected to be developed
bility and micro-transit technology will provide the public
around facilitating access to future rail service within
with the choice to walk, bike, scoot, ride transit or drive
the downtown and potentially park once mobility hubs
to meet mobility needs and access to future rail service.
in identified locations. A quality-of-service standard will
An adopted mobility plan serves as the basis for develop-
also be established in the mobility plan that could also
ment of a mobility fee. The intent of a mobility fee would
serve as the basis for the City to develop innovative Com-
be to replace the City’s transportation impact fee, all or
plete Street Design Standards.
a portion of St. Lucie County’s transportation impact fee,
CITY MANAGER’S REPORT
