FORT LAUDERDALE -- State transportation officials finished reviewing Delray Beach's "consensus plan" for widening State Road A1A Monday, but left unresolved the two most contentious issues -- parking and bike lanes.

While the DOT officials said they have not decided whether to build bike lanes, they made it clear that state regulations call for 5-foot-wide bike lanes -- 4 feet next to a curb -- where possible. A group of homeowners along A1A is advocating the road not be widened at all.

Top officials from the Florida Department of Transportation's District IV office -- Secretary Rick Chesser and Director of Planning and Production Gerry O'Reilly -- met with Delray Beach Mayor Jeff Perlman, City Manager David Harden and City Engineer Randal Krejcarek Monday at district headquarters, far from the mobs of homeowners and bicyclists who usually turn out for public meetings in the coastal towns affected by the widening plans.

DOT plans to widen and add 5-foot-wide bike lanes to sections of the road from Boca Raton to Palm Beach over the next few years. The $22 million plan has suffered the wrath of homeowners who don't want any extra pavement on their street and cyclists who want the state to build bike lanes, not the compromise 3-foot-wide "paved shoulder" Delray Beach officials have called for.

"We've met more with your city than with any other city," O'Reilly told the Delray Beach officials Monday.

The Delray Beach officials seemed surprised that the meeting was open to the public and asked whether a reporter would be allowed to stay and take notes. After fights nearly broke out at the city's first public meeting about the widening plans a year ago, a committee of business owners, homeowners and chamber of commerce officials met in private to work out a widely criticized "consensus" plan.

Among the problems DOT found in that plan:

* Brick-paver crosswalks would prove expensive to maintain and "stamped asphalt" would be a better choice.

* Regulations designed to protect sea turtles require lights to be moved to the east side of the road.

* Officials can't shrink travel lanes that are already 11 feet wide down to 10 feet.

* It will be difficult to accommodate a wider sidewalk, bike lanes and angled parking in a limited amount of space near the commercial Atlantic Avenue intersection.

"We said here's where it can work and here's where it can't," Chesser said. "Obviously the same things we've had all along -- parking and the 3-foot shoulder versus the 5-foot bike lane -- those are still up in the air."

Engineers wouldn't even put one of the committee's recommendations to paper. Adding pavement only on the west side of the road north of the public beach to George Bush Boulevard seemed arbitrary, O'Reilly said.

"We didn't see any reason to shift the road, so we didn't bother to draw it," O'Reilly said. "I think it's doable, but why would we want to do it?"

DOT will send the engineers' findings to a Palm Beach County Metropolitan Planning Organization panel, which will review it, probably in early June, and send it on to the organization's board, which will in turn send its comments back to DOT.

Perlman said the city has gone on the record with the consensus plan and will continue to advocate for it.

"From my perspective the city has taken its best shot with this plan," Perlman said. "It's reasonable. It doesn't compromise safety. It gives a little bit of something to everyone. If people don't like it, they need to talk to DOT and their state legislators. It's their road."