The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), District One, conducted a Project Development and Environment (PD&E) study for proposed improvements, including consideration of a single lane roundabout at the intersection of State Road (SR) 70 and SR 72 west of Arcadia in DeSoto County, Florida. This project involves raising and realigning SR 72 for approximately 0.85 miles between County Road (CR) 661 and SR 70. The SR 70 alignment will also be raised above historic flood levels and will require roughly a 1.05 mile of raising and reconstruction of SR 70 from CR 661 to the Peace River Bridge. A roundabout is proposed in lieu of the stop-controlled intersection. The proposed project would improve the overall safety and operations of both roadway facilities by mitigating the risk of flood damage to the road, reducing unplanned road closures due to severe flooding, and improving the overall safety of the intersection. Multi-modal improvements, including a shared use path, are proposed as additional safety improvements.

The project horizontal datum is Florida State Plane North Zone (NAD 1983), and the vertical datum is NAVD'88, which is 1.10 feet below NGVD'29 (0.00 feet NGVD'29 = -1.10 feet NAVD'88). The project is located in Section 26, 27, and 34, Township 37 South, Range 24 East. See Figure 1, Project Location Map, below and Figure 2 in Appendix A for the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Map.

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