On May 19, the Lee County Board of County Commissioners voted to award a contract for engineering services for a project to provide additional structural hardening to make Sanibel-Captiva Road and Captiva Drive more resilient to storm surge on both sides of Blind Pass.<\/p>\n
The county reported that the scope of the resiliency project also includes stormwater management improvements, sewer force main relocation and structural hardening by providing design, permitting and post-design services.<\/p>\n
The project highlights its partnership with the city of Sanibel to improve a city street \u2014 Sanibel-Captiva Road \u2014 and a county street \u2014 Captiva Drive \u2014 via a unified design to better ensure connectivity on a key transportation link between the two islands.<\/p>\n
The $874,907 engineering services contract with HighSpans Engineering is a portion of the estimated $4.8 million project, which is funded through the U.S. Housing and Urban Development\u2019s (HUD) Community Development Block Grant \u2014 Disaster Recovery Program (CDBG-DR).<\/p>\n
Construction is expected to begin in February 2028 and be completed in March 2029.<\/p>\n
For more information about the county\u2019s CDBG-DR projects, visit https:\/\/cdbgdr.leegov.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n