County commissioners are about to hit the trail.
The Manatee County Board of Commissioners approved $1,305,432.93 Aug. 8 to remodel a multiuse trail at Coquina Beach in Bradenton Beach.
The amount is the maximum the county will pay for the project.
The trail is a paved path about 8-feet wide that runs between the south end of the Coquina Beach parking lot northward about 1.5 miles to Fifth Street South.
Manatee County public information officer Bill Logan told The Islander Aug. 7 by email that the remodel includes laying a new trail in the footprint of the existing trail.
The project includes:
- Removal of the existing trail;
- Placing root barriers;
- Repaving the path;
- Trimming and replacing trees as needed.
Logan said tree mitigation at Coquina Park involves removing 96 Australian pine trees.
Woodruff & Sons of Bradenton is the contractor on the trail project.
A start date was not announced as of Aug. 11.
The project will take about eight months.