80th Avenue North St. Pete Aprons

80th Avenue North sits in Riviera Bay, on the north St. Pete grid off 4th Street. Shore Acres Elementary is the neighborhood school, and a lot of the houses are mid-century slabs with a short drive and a city apron that has already cracked at the gutter.

What the apron has to do

The apron is the city's transition, not a place to save on base. We match the existing gutter line, keep the flare inside the right-of-way rules for that block, and pitch the private drive back toward a legal swale instead of the garage.

• Excavate past the failed sand bed so the new field is not sitting on the old one

• Compacted aggregate under the apron and the first private courses

• Rigid edge at the property side so the field does not walk into the lawn

• Joint sand locked after the field has been compacted, not before

Bayou-edge water

Riviera Bay lots can hold water after a summer storm even when the street looks dry. A thin sand set over native soil pumps up through the joints. We read the high-water mark at the apron before we set thickness.

PaverForge Hardscapes is based in St. Pete Beach. For a quote on this block, call 727-490-9798 or book at https://www.paverforge.com/book-online.