Why We Must STOP the $55M Port St. Lucie Soccer Stadium
​To: Mayor Shannon Martin and the Port St. Lucie City Council

​The City of Port St. Lucie is a community of young, growing families, yet our current leadership is prioritizing a $55 million (or up to $27.5 million in Tax Increment Funds) professional soccer stadium—a project we, the residents, overwhelmingly believe is ill-timed, fiscally misguided, and dangerously located.

​We are calling on Mayor Martin and the City Council to immediately halt the development of the professional soccer stadium at the Walton & One site and redirect those funds to address our city's most critical, urgent needs: infrastructure and youth recreation.

​1. The Traffic Nightmare: US 1 and Walton Road Cannot Cope
​The proposed stadium site at the intersection of US 1 and Walton Road is an infrastructure disaster waiting to happen. This area is already notorious for severe congestion, gridlock, and dangerous traffic during regular peak hours.

​Adding a 6,000-seat professional sports venue, which will host thousands of fans, staff, and vendors, will create paralyzing gridlock that affects our daily lives:

​Commuter Chaos: Residents trying to get to work or pick up children will be trapped for hours.
​Emergency Delays: Gridlock on these major routes poses a serious threat to public safety, delaying fire, police, and ambulance response times.
​Unsustainable Volume: The current road layout lacks the capacity, necessary entry/exit points, and transit infrastructure to safely or efficiently handle the volume of traffic a stadium demands. We must address our existing road decay and congestion before we build anything that actively makes it worse.
​2. Misguided Priorities: We Need Parks, Not Pro Teams
​Port St. Lucie is not asking for a professional sports franchise. Our community is desperately asking for fundamental improvements that enhance the daily quality of life for our children and families.

​The millions of dollars allocated for this stadium should instead be invested in:

​Youth Recreation: Expand and maintain existing youth athletic complexes, providing more fields and facilities for local soccer, baseball, and softball leagues. Our kids need places to play every day, not a massive stadium they will only watch professionals use on occasion.
​Community Amenities: Focus on creating the walkable, amenity-rich downtown that has been promised for years, featuring local retail, dining, and green space, instead of anchoring the area with a single-purpose event center.
​Basic Services: Use these funds to address crumbling neighborhood roads, drainage issues, and other basic municipal services that have been neglected.
​3. Listen to the People of Port St. Lucie
​We understand the vision for economic development, but economic growth should never come at the expense of resident safety and quality of life. The residents are speaking clearly: We do not want this stadium.

​This petition serves as the community’s formal demand to the Mayor and the City Council to abandon the USL stadium project and focus on fixing the traffic crisis and investing directly in the needs of our families.

​SIGN THIS PETITION to tell Port St. Lucie City Council to STOP the stadium, fix our roads, and prioritize youth recreation!