ANNA MARIA – Several Anna Maria streets will be repaved during the next two weeks.
On Thursday, Jan. 13, Mayor Dan Murphy provided city commissioners with an update on the paving project. He said the paving will begin on Monday, Jan. 17, and signs had already been erected and notification letters had been sent to potentially impacted property owners. Murphy said the work is expected to be finished by Friday, Jan. 28, assuming no weather delays or supply or labor shortages.
According to the notification letter signed by Public Works Manager Dean Jones, the paving will take place on the following streets in the following order: Pelican Avenue, Gull Drive, South Bay Boulevard, Palmetto Avenue and Gulf Drive, from Willow Avenue to the city limits.
“Please be advised that the work may flow into the following week due to inclement weather or other unforeseen circumstances. If you have any questions or concerns, please call me at 941-708-6130, ext. 131,” the letter notes.
Murphy said the paving work is scheduled Monday through Friday between 7 p.m. and 5 a.m.
“It can be somewhat noisy during the period of time and I’m sensitive to that. If we start getting complaints about noise, we’ll try to alter things to see what we can do,” the mayor said.
Jones said the finished product will resemble the paving previously done on North Bay Boulevard.
Jones said the milling process is the noisiest part of the paving project: “It will be a little bit noisy, but they tend to move very quickly. I’m confident we can get it done with minimal complaints.”
Murphy said the total cost for the paving project will be $396,000 and the city has earmarked approximately $800,000 in this year’s paving plan.
“We’ve still got money left over that we can spend, but this is what we can get accomplished right away. A lot of this depends on the availability of the paving company and materials and I’ve got to strike while the iron is hot. They’ve got equipment available, they’ve got material available, so we want to go forward,” Murphy said.
The existing paved surfaces will be milled and repaved. The work will include re-marking and restriping the newly-paved areas and re-marking some of the existing crosswalks that are not being repaved.
