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RESOLUTION NO. 2023- �3-A A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF SUNNY ISLES BEACH, FLORIDA, ADOPTING A DUNE MASTER PLAN; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO DO ALL THING NECESSARY TO EFFECTUATE THIS RESOLUTION; PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, on January 20, 2022, pursuant to Ordinance 2022-576, the City of Sunny Isles Beach ("City") created an Environment Sustainability Advisory Committee ("ESAC"), the purpose of providing guidance and advice regarding the City's efforts to provide and promote general environmental improvement trends, or "green initiatives," and "sustainable development," which is herein defined as a pattern of resource use that aims to meet community needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met, not only in the present, but in the indefinite future; and WHEREAS, pursuant to the ESAC's powers and duties, the ESAC made an advisory recommendation that the City develop and adopt a Dune Master Plan; and WHEREAS, dunes are an important part of the City's coastal ecosystems that provides a habitat to a distinctive subset of regional biota, including the City's sea turtles; and WHEREAS, coastal dunes provide coastal storm protection by maintaining and supplying sand to the City's beaches, protecting inland coastal areas from storm damage and flooding by coastal waves and elevated sea levels through the elevation and stored sand volume; and WHEREAS, a Dune Master Plan empowers the City to better understand the ongoing needs of the City's coastal native landscape and provides a comprehensive action plan to achieve and sustain coastal resiliency by providing standards and recommendation for dune creation, preservation, and maintenance; and WHEREAS, pursuant the ESAC's recommendations, on July 20, 2022, the City engaged the South Florida Audubon Society to assist with the development of a Dune Master Plan; and WHEREAS, at a duly noticed workshop on December 5, 2022, a draft Dune Master Plan was presented by ESAC to the City Commission; and WHEREAS, on June 15, 2023, the ESAC requested that the City Commission formerly adopt the Dune Master Plan, attached hereto as Exhibit "A", to provide coastal landowners with recommended standards for dune creation, preservation, and maintenance; and WHEREAS, the City Commission has reviewed the Dune Master Plan, and accepts the ESAC's recommendation to adopt the same, which master plan is attached hereto as Exhibit "A". NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF SUNNY ISLES BEACH, FLORIDA: R2023 Adopting Dune Master Plan Page 1 of 2