Agenda 03/11/2025 Item #16B15 (Traffic Signal Agreement that will authorize the installation of a traffic signal at Immokalee Road and Bellaire Bay Drive)SEE REVERSE SIDE
Proposed Agenda Changes
Board of County Commissioners Meeting
March 11, 2025
Move item 16G2 to 11D: Recommendation to authorize staff to engage the Federal Aviation Administration and
the Florida Department of Transportation to seek guidance and information regarding the potential deactivation of
Everglades Airpark (X01) as a public airport. (Commissioner LoCastro’s, Commissioner Saunders’, Commissioner
McDaniel’s, Commissioner Kowal’s, and Commissioner Hall’s Separate Requests)
Continue item 16B13 to the March 25 BCC Meeting: Recommendation to award Invitation to Bid (“ITB”) No.
24-8316, “Landscape Maintenance for Work Areas 18B, 20B, 21B, 23, 27,” to Mainscape, Inc., Superb Landscape
Services, Inc., and Superior Landscaping & Lawn Service, Inc., on a Primary/Secondary basis, and authorize the
Chairman to sign the attached agreements. (Commissioner McDaniel’s Request)
Continue item 16B15 to the March 25 BCC Meeting: Recommendation to approve a Traffic Signal Agreement
with Cameron Commons, authorize the Chairman to sign a traffic signal agreement with Cameron Commons Unit
Two Property Owner’s Association that will authorize the construction of a traffic signal at the intersection of
Immokalee Road and Bellaire Bay Drive and memorialize that the signal may be removed at the County’s
discretion. (Staff’s Request)
Notes:
TIME CERTAIN ITEMS:
3/10/2025 8:46 PM
3/11/2025
Item # 16.B.15
ID# 2025-630
Executive Summary
Recommendation to approve a Traffic Signal Agreement with Cameron Commons, authorize the Chairman to sign a
traffic signal agreement with Cameron Commons Unit Two Property Owner’s Association that will authorize the
construction of a traffic signal at the intersection of Immokalee Road and Bellaire Bay Drive and memorialize that the
signal may be removed at the County’s discretion.
OBJECTIVE: To allow construction of a traffic signal at the intersection of Immokalee Road and Bellaire Bay Drive
and to memorialize that the signal may be removed for future roadway improvements.
CONSIDERATIONS: On March 10, 2020, the Board of County Commissioners (the "Board"), approved the award of
Bid No. 20-7682 to Wright Construction Group, Inc., for the “Immokalee Road (CR 846) at Woodcrest Drive
Intersection Improvements projects. These projects included the addition of a traffic signal at the intersection of
Immokalee Road and Woodcrest Drive and the directionalization of the Immokalee Road and Bellaire Bay Drive
intersection, which removed the ability to make a left turn onto Immokalee Road at that location. At this meeting, staff
identified that a future overpass would be placed on Immokalee Road traveling over Collier Boulevard. This overpass
would have a portion of the transition ramp for east and westbound vehicles crossing at Bellaire Bay Drive.
Additionally, it was identified that a traffic signal at Immokalee Road and Bellaire Bay Drive would negatively impact
mobility along this critical corridor and should not be approved by the County. At that time, the only signal that staff
would support was at Woodcrest Drive as identified above.
At the June 8, 2021, Board meeting, staff was requested to visit the feasibility of a traffic signal at Bellaire Bay Drive
and Immokalee Road. Traffic counts were conducted on June 18, 2021, and a traffic signal warrant study was
performed. The study again determined that a traffic signal is not warranted at the intersection of Bellaire Bay Drive
and Immokalee Road.
Immokalee Road is one of the county’s busiest major arterial roadways and will only become busier with all the planned
additional growth. Any time a new traffic signal is added to a roadway, the through traffic capacity is reduced,
equivalent to the amount of green time dedicated to the side street, which in this case is estimated to be approximately a
twenty to twenty-five percent reduction. The existing traffic pattern will change without the new addition of a signal at
Bellaire Bay Drive as a new roundabout on Collier Boulevard will allow motorists exiting from the plaza to easily turn
south to head towards Immokalee Road.
After the initial study, a new gate was installed on Limestone Trail, a private roadway connection to the Quarry
development. Traffic counts were conducted again after the gate was closed on October 18, 2021, and a new study was
prepared that found traffic signal warrants were satisfied at this location. However, such traffic signal would be of
private benefit only and not benefit motorists on Immokalee Road. The signal would also conflict with the planned
overpass. At the January 25, 2022, meeting, the Board accepted a feasibility report regarding the traffic signal and
authorized the County Manager to work with the adjacent Associations to formalize an agreement identifying that the
Association is required to design, permit, and install the signal at their own expense and if the County determines that
the signal must be removed, the Association must waive any and all claims for compensation and damages, including
but not limited to future business damages and loss of access. The Association has applied for a right-of-way permit to
install the traffic signal. Therefore, it is necessary to formalize the agreement with the Board’s direction.
This item is consistent with the Collier County strategic plan objective to plan and build public infrastructure and
facilities to effectively, efficiently, and sustainably meet the needs of our community.
FISCAL IMPACT: There is no fiscal impact associated with this item. In the future, when the County deems it
necessary to remove the signal, the removal will be at the County's expense.
GROWTH MANAGEMENT IMPACT: This action will result in no growth management impact.
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Item # 16.B.15
ID# 2025-630
LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS: This item has been reviewed by the County Attorney, is approved as to form and
legality and requires majority vote for approval. -JAK
RECOMMENDATIONS: To approve the Traffic Signal Agreement that will authorize the installation of a traffic
signal at Immokalee Road and Bellaire Bay Drive.
PREPARED BY: Trinity Scott, Transportation Management Services Department Head
ATTACHMENTS:
1. TRAFFIC SIGNAL AGREEMENT CAMERON COMMONS 02-20-2025
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