Marco Island • Collier County
Decorative Curbing in Marco Island, FL
Marco Island's residential grid was mostly carved out after the Deltona Corporation began developing the island in the mid-1960s, dredging canals and using the spoil to build up lots. That fill is the ground a concrete border sits on, and it can be uneven in density from one corner of a yard to the next, so Hodges tamps the trench line before the curbing machine runs. Placement is the other local question. The city requires a separate right-of-way permit for any construction, planting or disturbance in the public right-of-way, and its tree guidelines keep plantings out of a swale's flow line, so curbing that wanders toward the street can create a permit issue and a drainage one. On canal lots, a border is also a handy way to mark the edge of the fertilizer-free strip the city requires behind the seawall, which makes that line easy for a maintenance crew to see.
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Where it comes up in Marco Island
Hideaway Beach
Caxambas
Bald Eagle Drive corridor
Plants and materials that suit it in Marco Island
- Blue daze
- Coontie
- Native lantana (pineland lantana)
- Liriope (lilyturf)
- Extruded concrete curbing
- Stamped slant-face curb profile
Questions
Can curbing mark the no-fertilizer zone behind my seawall?
Yes, and it is a practical use for it. Marco Island bars fertilizer within ten feet of the top of a seawall, canal or storm drain. A curb line at that distance gives anyone fertilizing a clear visual stop, and the strip behind it can be rock or unfed groundcover.
Do I need a city permit to put curbing near the street?
If any of it lands in the public right-of-way, the city requires a right-of-way permit for construction, planting or disturbance there. Hodges keeps borders on private property when possible and confirms the line before pouring so a permit question does not come up halfway through.
Will curbing settle on fill soil?
Any concrete border can settle if the ground under it is soft. Because many Marco lots were built up with dredged fill, Hodges compacts the trench before extruding the curb. Good compaction does more to prevent cracks than thicker concrete would.