Escambia County to spend $300K to make Pensacola Beach more accessible

What would make Pensacola Beach more accessible for people with disabilities?

Emma Kennedy
Pensacola News Journal

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This story has been updated to correct a mistake that appeared in the original version. Escambia County RESTORE Program Manager Matt Posner’s email is mjposner@myescambia.com. Public comments can be sent to that email or to pns_gtm@baskervilledonovan.com.

A more accessible beach experience is coming to Pensacola Beach and Perdido Key, and officials are seeking public input for what that might look like.

An initial “barrier assessment” was completed by engineering firm Baskerville-Donovan during the past few months, identifying such issues as infrastructure and facilities to see if they’re in basic compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Now, Escambia County officials are looking to tourists and residents with disabilities who use the beaches to determine what additional measures would make the experience easier and more enjoyable.

“Now that we’ve identified the bare minimum, we’ll work through that internally, but we’re moving into this public engagement period to ask what is needed out there to make it truly accessible,” said Matt Posner, the county’s RESTORE program manager.

“That’s not necessarily an easy thing to find, it depends on each type of disability so we need to hear from the people who [...]

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