Commissioner Shelley Vana is proud to announce the completion of the street lighting project in the Countywide Community Revitalization Team (CCRT) target area of Englewood Manor. Twenty new street lights were installed on the following streets: French Avenue, Giuliano Avenue, Scanlan Avenue, Vassallo Avenue, Elizabeth Road, Engle Road and Theresa Road.
Englewood Manor is located in unincorporated Lake Worth, north of Lake Worth Road and east of Congress Avenue. The $140,000 project was completed through a partnership between the Office of Community Revitalization (OCR), the Sheriff’s Office and Lake Worth Utilities.
“This lighting project is one of many positive results of citizens and government working together,” Commissioner Vana said.
The Neighborhood Street Lighting (NSL) Program, administered by the OCR, was established by the Board of County Commissioners (BCC) as a strategy to enhance crime deterrence, as well as vehicular and pedestrian safety in designated CCRT target areas.
The BCC created the CCRT program in 1997 to offer designated neighborhoods in unincorporated Palm Beach County specialized support and financial assistance for resident-driven community revitalization initiatives. The NSL Program was created as an incentive for citizens to also become active partners in community revitalization and to improve the overall quality of life for the citizens of Palm Beach County.
The NSL Program is intended to provide funding for the installation of citizen petitioned streetlights at approved locations along county-maintained roadways in designated areas that experience above-average nighttime criminal activity, as well as unsafe pedestrian and vehicular mobility conditions. It is not the intent of this program to fund lighting for private property.
For additional information regarding the NSL Program, please contact William Wynn at (561) 233-5168 Wwynn@pbcgov.org or Audley Reid at (561) 233-5567 AReid@pbcgov.org.
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