2015-0416 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes:Regular City Commission Meeting April 16,2015 City of Sunny Isles Beach,Florida been approved, that are not on the road now, and again, they will be able to recommend litigation measures across the mode so you can select the ones that mitigate to your needs. Commissioner Aelion asked in doing the studies for Miami Beach what were the overall results when you involved the public? Mr. Corradino said what they like to do is to provide capacity in all the modes because that gives people the opportunity to get around the way they see fit. Right now in many communities they don't have capacities'with sidewalks for pedestrians, they don't have bicycle lanes or room for a bicycle to get around, and they may not even provide adequate transit. And so we are able to provide capacity, we already have roadway capacity, if you can provide it in those other three modes, give people the option then a certain percentage of them as the road continues to congest will make a cultural shift to walk, or bike, or use transit, but we have to provide the capacity first. If there are no adequate bike lanes or sidewalks people don't have an opportunity to use it. Not everybody is going to abandon the car, and walking is not for everybody but it is for a certain percentage of the people and if we can capture those people, we will make an impact on the mobility in the community. Commissioner Aelion said it is very hot and people tend to use their vehicles to get around, it is not easy to walk. He wants to know what the reaction was for the people in Miami Beach. Joe said not everybody loves everything, the reaction overall was positive, and he thinks as we move through time of the reaction to 'sidewalks, transit, bicycling is more positive even'year, and his comment to many people is that it is freezing cold in Boston in the wintertime and it is not very pleasant to walk around there and so as a necessity as the mother of invention it gets harder to take your car a quarter of a mile and people are going to find a better alternative, and they will walk. Miami Beach has gotten very progressive, they have shared bikes and cars, and they have pushed in that direction because they recognized two decades ago that they are out of roadway capacity. To add lanes is not only costly from a financial standpoint but it is political because you are not going to take private property to put in an extra lane. Vice Mayor Gatto said you did answer a question she had while you were speaking because she was thinking that the City is a living and breathing thing with all of this development and we have to tweak it as we go along. But we have a school and there is a 99%chance that we are going to have an annex to that school, and so there were staggered hours that we deal with traffic during the day and she is assuming you will take that into consideration. Mr. Corradino said absolutely, they are going to be looking at traffic in most of your peak hours and obviously the school in the morning, there is lunch time, and there is the afternoon. If there is any special circumstances that they run across that they didn't anticipate they will identify them and count them. They will get a very good understanding of how the City pulses in and out even'day, and that will help them. Vice Mayor Gatto said she thinks it is really too hot for people to walk to the grocery store to do their shopping and on the way back lugging stuff is even more difficult. Mr. Corradino said it is a very hard sell and it is not for everybody, and so their approach is to try to put in place the infrastructure so that if they want to they can take advantage of it, and over time he believes you will start to see people taking advantage of the infrastructure because we just don't have the capacity in any one mode, particularly in the automobile. Commissioner Aelion said as soon as this is over and this is a paramount of importance he wants to suggest to staff to do this at least as a two-step thing as far as presenting data to the /6