The City of Fort Pierce aims to enter into a lease agreement with Jetty View, LLC to create a temporary parking lot on three parcels of land located along Seaway Drive west of the Square Grouper. With competing uses of Jetty Park between the fishermen, beach goers, park visitors, and the patrons of the surrounding businesses, the popularity of this area continues to increase and additional parking is desperately needed. This lease agreement is for 12 months with the possibility of a one year extension if agreed upon by both parties.

The creation of this temporary parking solution will add approximately 125-150 additional spaces. This will reduce the congestion of Jetty Park and vehicle stacking while visitors are searching for and waiting on an available space.

The business community is behind this idea and has offered to contribute funds to the City of Fort Pierce to help offset the cost. For their contributions to this project, the Public Works Department will erect signage identifying the parking area as well as the area businesses that are participating in making this project a reality.

The residents of South Beach, visitors to the area, and the business owners will all benefit from the creation of the proposed temporary parking lot while a long term, permanent solution is sought.

The Public Works Department recommends approval of this lease agreement to provide a temporary parking lot and alleviate parking congestion in the Jetty Park area while a long term, permanent solution is sought.

Deny approval of this agreement and continue to focus on a long term, permanent parking solution on South Beach.

Public Works, Finance, City Manager, City Attorney

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