Sidewalks in Port St. Lucie

Port St. Lucie has more than 400 miles of sidewalk inside the city, and more than 200 of those miles are owned and maintained by the city.

The rest, according to the Public Works Sidewalk Master Plan page, sit on private property such as gated communities or along county and state roads, which means the city is not the owner for every Port St. Lucie sidewalk a resident walks on. Since the city's sidewalk program began in 2006, Port St. Lucie has installed more than 40 miles of sidewalk at a cost in excess of $17,000,000, the same page says, combining city money with outside grants.

The gap has deep roots. During the 1960s, the master plan page explains, General Development Corporation, the developer of the original city, provided sidewalks only within limited parts of Port St. Lucie, such as the Sandpiper/Club Med area. As the population grew, new and wider roadways were built with sidewalks, and areas annexed into the city brought sidewalks as part of new development.

Port St. Lucie puts new sidewalks first on major roadways, with an emphasis on areas within a two-mile radius of schools and on links that connect one major road to another.

The stated purpose on the Sidewalk Master Plan page is a network of connecting sidewalk rather than numerous non-connecting segments. The plan is meant to make the city more walkable, keep students off busy roads on the way to school and give residents an alternative to driving. The page notes that the city also adds sidewalk through roadway projects and cites the Crosstown Parkway project as an example, with an additional two miles of sidewalks.

Road projects show how this works on the ground. The Floresta Drive Improvement Project rebuilds that corridor with sidewalks and bicycle lanes between Southbend Boulevard and Prima Vista Boulevard, and the city's St. Lucie West Blvd. Projects page lists the SW California Boulevard widening from Crosstown Parkway to St. Lucie West Blvd. with drainage improvements, sidewalks and landscaping.

The Port St. Lucie sidewalk construction table marks segments complete in each of its four council districts, paid for with city money, state LAP grants, federal CDBG grants and the half-cent sales tax.

The rows above are taken from the construction schedule on the Sidewalk Master Plan page, which lists each Port St. Lucie project by district, construction funding source and status. On the same table, Savage Blvd from Import Dr to Gatlin Blvd is marked in construction, and a Cambridge Blvd segment along Morningside Blvd is marked removed. The city states that the schedule is subject to change depending on the funding source, such as a grant, or on funds available in a fiscal year, which construction costs can affect.

By district, District 3 holds a run of Paar Dr segments between Darwin Blvd, Port St. Lucie Boulevard and Savona Blvd, plus Rosser Blvd and Alcantarra Blvd links; District 2 holds the Torino Parkway, Import Dr, Galiano Rd and Cadima St links, among them an Import Dr segment starting at Gatlin Boulevard; District 1 holds Selvitz Rd, Macedo Blvd, Sandia Dr and Milner Dr, among them a Selvitz Rd segment ending at Bayshore Boulevard; and District 4 holds the Hillmoor Dr, Tiffany Ave and Morningside Blvd segments. The table also lists a Peacock Trail from the Gatlin Park and Ride to Peacock Park in District 3 with LAP funding (construction schedule).

Port St. Lucie sidewalks are paid for with the half-cent sales tax, city Road and Bridge and mobility fee money, Florida Department of Transportation Local Agency Program grants and federal Community Development Block Grants.

The Half-Cent Sales Tax Projects page lists sidewalks at $11 million. When the City Council approved the 10-Year Sidewalk Master Plan in 2017, the same page explains, the city expected to finish 17 miles, or 47 percent, of the listed sidewalks over ten years under the proposed budget, and said sales tax funding would allow 35 miles, or 100 percent.

The FY 2023-24 Adopted Budget Book lists new sidewalk projects of $5 million in the Road and Bridge Capital Projects Fund plus $5.4 million in the Half-Cent Sales Tax CIP Fund within its five-year capital program. It also says the Mobility Fee, adopted by the City Council in October 2021, replaced city road impact fees collected from Port St. Lucie developers and builders and can pay for bike lanes, sidewalks, trails, transit and roads, with revenue projected at $7.2 million for fiscal 2023-24. That budget included Mobility Plan funding for new sidewalks throughout the Southwest Benefit District.

The federal share comes through CDBG, which the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development describes as annual formula grants to states, cities and counties whose eligible activities include construction of public facilities and improvements such as streets (HUD CDBG program). In the Port St. Lucie table, CDBG paid for segments such as Floresta Dr between Prima Vista Blvd and Airoso Blvd and Grand Dr between Lennard Rd and Tiffany Ave.

The Port St. Lucie Sidewalk Master Plan page hosts the plan, a map and an interactive map, and sidewalk concerns are taken by the city's 1PSL service at 772-871-1775.

The documents posted on the Sidewalk Master Plan page are the Sidewalk Master Plan PDF, the Sidewalk Master Plan Map, an Interactive Sidewalk Master Plan Map, the city's ADA Transition Plan and its Title VI Assurance and Policy.

For anything about an existing city sidewalk, such as a lifted panel, the general city contact is 1PSL at 772-871-1775, listed as the request and concern line on each city page, including the sales tax projects page. The master plan page places the sidewalks that are not city owned on private property such as gated communities, on county roads or on state roads. Last verified: October 22, 2026, sidewalk facts here match the Port St. Lucie sidewalk inventory, history and construction table, the 2017 plan figures on the half-cent page, the FY 2023-24 mobility fee and sidewalk budget lines, two city road project pages and HUD's CDBG program page.