Miami-Dade would need at least $13.9 million that it doesn’t have in order to fulfill a 2025 resolution seeing to aid patrons who use mobility devices or wheelchairs by installing adaptive fishing piers or floating docks at all county parks where fishing is available, a report to commissioners say s. The commission asked for the adaptive docks or a report on their status from Mayor Daniella Levine Cava a year ago. After study of the parks, the report says 12 parks have fishing opportunities and only one – Deering Estate (The People’s Dock) – is equipped with a hybrid floating dock and fishing pier that can serve those using mobility aids. A second park, at the Pelican Harbor Marina, has a fixed concrete pier and replacement with an adaptive pier is partially funded and expected to be complete in February 2028, the report says. Additionally, the East Greynolds Park fishing pier will be replaced with an adaptive fishing pier in coordination with the South Florida Water Management District. The report does not give a timeline for that replacement. As for the remaining nine park locations, the report says the cost to adapt an existing fishing pier or install an adaptive fishing pier or floating dock would be $600,000 to $1.1 million per location, depending on the size of the dock and the complexity of the work. Moreover, some parks would need funding for remediation at the site. All told, the report puts the cost of making the nine addition parks available for fishing for those in wheelchairs or needing mobility help as high as $13.9 million for capital funding. “Funding is currently unavailable and would need to be identified in future years,” the report says. The nine fishing-friendly parks that are not provided for to add these fishing opportunities are: ■A.D. Barnes Park, where shore fishing areas with concrete pads would need to be modified or retrofitted. ■Black Point Park and Marina, which now offers shore fishing at a concrete seawall that would need to be modified or retrofitted, in addition to spending about $2 million for remediation. ■Haulover Park, where shore fishing with a concrete seawall would need modifying or retrofitting. ■Homestead Bayfront Park, which offers shore fishing from a concrete seawall that would need to be modified or retrofitted. ■Larry Penny Thompson Memorial Park, where a fixed concrete pier would need modification or retrofitting and $2 million in site remediation. ■Matheson Hammock Park, whose fixed wood dock would have to be modified or retrofitted. ■Amelia Earhart Park, whose fixed wood dock would have to be completely replaced. ■Tropical Park, whose fixed concrete dock would need replacement. ■Bill Sadowski Hammock Preserve, whose primitive shore fishing would require a complete buildout. The post Bid to add floating fishing docks in parks $13 million short appeared first on Miami Today. ...read more read less