Many of us develop strong impressions of a neighborhood as we travel along its entryways. The civic association has assumed responsibility to improve and maintain this area.
Future Considerations — Vision
- Install landscaping on Rocky Point Golf Course near the equipment placed there to support undergrounding.
- Install a large palm tree or alternative landscape feature behind each entranceway.
- Explore the best alternatives for adding decorating lighting at street entranceways and uplighting oak trees along Dana Shores Drive. Piggyback on the underground design and installation work in order to install decorative lighting in strategic locations.
- Install a second community sign and logo at Americana Drive.*
Completed Items — Select Community Highlights
- Led collaborative efforts with Rocky Point Golf Course and Sweetwater to design, obtain grant funding, and install the Rocky Point sign at the intersection of Independence Parkway and George Road.
- Installed Dana Shores community sign, lighting, and logo at Doral Drive.
- Enhanced the architectural look of street entryways with pineapples and accent tiles.
- Consolidated and replaced old street signs with new decorative posts and signs.
- Working jointly with the DSWC, involved residents in selecting new wall colors, painting the walls, and adding holiday decorations.
- Professionally pruned and shaped the oak trees along the residential portion of Dana Shores Drive, raising them up to allow safer passage for bicyclists, increase visibility, and provide a kept look for the neighborhood.
- Worked with the county to mark stop bars in order to promote traffic and pedestrian safety.
- Partnered with the DSWC to install micro-irrigation and new plants at entranceways and to replace borders around each flower bed.
- Provided dispensers for emergency leashes and dog-waste-bags on the backside of each entryway along Dana Shores Drive.
- Planted palm trees on Rocky Point Golf Course across from the entrance to Pelican Island.
- Worked with the County to reroute the sidewalk at the southwest corner of Doral and Dana Shores Drive.
Because these improvements are highly visible, we often receive feedback on them. We greatly appreciate your comments.
I noticed the large work crew on Saturday and thanks to all of you. The new signs look wonderful!
I’ve driven by the intersection at Doral and Dana Shores Drive many times in the last few days, and both coming and going the design, rhythm and size of the beds and plantings is so beautiful!!! It’s wonderful… Great inspiration and execution.
The signs look fantastic! Kudos to all!
We love the signs. They look fantastic.
Kudos to everyone involved in the new signs for our community! Our community just keeps getting better and better thanks to the efforts of so many of our neighbors. I know Janet and I very much appreciate all your work. We try to do our little bit to help, and that is the message. If everyone gives a little time and/or money, Dana Shores will be a showcase for all of Tampa. Thank you again.
The signs look beautiful. Nice job!
Thank you for all of the countless hours you’ve put into making all of these improvements.
The new street signs look amazing!
They look great!
Please extend our sincere gratitude to all those that worked so hard in getting this project done. It looks fantastic!
Looks amazing! So proud of our neighborhood and are neighborhood volunteers!
The signs look wonderful and even nicer that the pictures I remember seeing.
They are beautiful!! Great job, thanks all who made it happen!!
The signs look awesome!
(We) enjoyed seeing the signs today. Congrats to all the volunteers.
Thanks for all the hard work to all involved.
They look beautiful – great effort!
The signs are beautiful! It is quite obvious that a lot of thought went into their design and placement. Well done. Thank you AGAIN!
Thank you all so much.
I had the pleasure of driving around the neighborhood today and looking at the signs. And they look fantastic. What a huge improvement! They look beautiful. I cannot imagine how hard it was and how much work it was to put those babies in, but they look great. What a huge difference. Thank you so much and please thank the team on behalf of my household. I cannot imagine it looking any nicer!
My dad came in the neighborhood and noticed right away – and he would normally not notice anything like this. The changes make a huge difference!
The signs look great! Thanks to all who brought this together.
Everything looks incredible! Seriously …..we drove down all the streets and the signs look phenomenal!! NO KIDDING!!! GREAT JOB TO ALL WHO GAVE THEIR TIME!!!
They look fantastic… The signage upgrade is a tangible marker of positive change that will hopefully spill over to the undergrounding project. I for one am getting excited!
Although we make a concerted effort to outline a clear and doable vision, the above vision is subject to change based on new ideas, resource availability, project feasibility, and other factors. Please let us know if you have questions or would like to offer input and related assistance.
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