Monroe County Resident Urges Commission to Fix Crumbling Key Largo Neighborhood Road

Tom Scaturro stepped to the Monroe County Commission microphone on March 10 with a straightforward demand: fix Adobe Casa Court Drive before it gets worse.

Scaturro, a property owner on Casa Court, addressed commissioners in Key Largo to draw attention to the severely deteriorated condition of the short bayside street near Mile Marker 94.2. The road serves a small neighborhood tucked along the bay side, and Scaturro made clear that its condition had reached a point where residents could no longer wait for the county to act on its own.

The complication standing between the crumbling pavement and a repair crew is a question that has yet to be resolved: who actually owns Adobe Casa Court Drive. Ownership of the road remains unclear, a gap that can stall maintenance work indefinitely when no agency or entity has clear authority to authorize or fund repairs.

That ambiguity is a familiar frustration in Monroe County, where a patchwork of private roads, platted but never formally accepted county streets, and decades-old subdivisions can leave neighborhood infrastructure in legal limbo. For residents on those streets, the uncertainty translates directly into potholes, cracked asphalt, and deteriorating conditions with no obvious path to a fix.

Scaturro's appearance before the commission put the issue on the public record, forcing the question of jurisdiction and responsibility into the open. Whether the county will move to clarify ownership and take on repairs, or determine that Adobe Casa Court Drive falls outside its scope, remains to be seen.