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<br />® calm traffic,and improve access management on local city Street, the school was approved for up to 1,642 students.
<br /> • streets. Faced with traffic impact concerns due to the limited on-site
<br /> space, K&S successfully devised a series of Transportation
<br />• Recent development adjacent to long standing local Demand Management strategies to minimize the school's
<br />® neighborhoods tends to create unintentional consequences, impact upon the adjacent neighborhoods and Collins
<br /> such as traffic intrusion and speeding (both real and Avenue. Walk-To-School and Bike-To-School programs,
<br />® perceived). Residents of these neighborhoods feel coupled with school bus service within the School Board's
<br />® motorists are using their neighborhood roadways to bypass 2-mile exclusion radius,were examples of tools employed
<br /> local congestion in an attempt to minimize travel time. K&S to reduce vehicular demand,and its associated impacts on
<br /> ® believes that successful traffic intrusion studies and traffic the surrounding neighborhood.
<br /> • management studies require an innate understanding of
<br /> the issues and concerns of the local community,combined PARKING STUDIES
<br /> ® with consistent communication with city staff and residents.
<br /> • The extensive technical experience that K&S has, coupled To effectively conduct a parking study, an accurate
<br /> with our successful community outreach programs, will estimation of the existing and future parking demand must
<br /> ® facilitate results that are mutually acceptable to the City be performed. That determination should be compared
<br /> • and residents alike. to the parking supply to assess whether or not sufficient
<br /> parking spaces exist, or will exist, to accommodate the
<br /> • The team of professional traffic engineers at K&S has development intensities. This assessment must include an
<br /> • significant experience assisting local governments and overall evaluation,as well as a detailed, localized review of
<br /> neighborhoods with traffic issues ranging from identifying the parking deficits and surpluses to determine where to
<br /> ® potential traffic calming solutions, such as speed humps, optimally locate the correct amount of parking to serve the
<br /> • chokers, diverters, and extensive landscaping features, to needs of the community. The K&S Team has considerable
<br /> evaluating nearby traffic signal operations for enhancing experience providing this service for local government
<br /> • the functionality of collectors and arterials so that traffic agencies.
<br /> • is encouraged to remain on the major thoroughfares. We
<br /> also have presented our findings at many quasi-judicial Another key component involves identifying who is parking,
<br /> ® meetings in front of city councils and residents alike. This and where. Parking behaviors of employees and residents
<br /> • experience is an invaluable asset for Sunny Isles Beach to vary significantly from tourists andvisitors,andtherefore,itis
<br /> utilize as it balances development pressures from proposed critical to separate employee parking from patron or visitor
<br /> 0 residential, retail, and school projects with their impacts parking. In addition,the walking distance from the parking
<br /> • upon the community's residents. space to the destination is a critical issue, and is directly
<br /> related to the viability of the parking facility. Intuitively,if a
<br /> • This is evidenced by our Transportation Demand motorist will not park in a designated space because it is
<br /> • Management Study for Norman B.Edelcup Sunny Isles located too far away from their intended destination, it is
<br /> Beach K-8 School. Located atAtlantic Boulevard and 183rd not viable and is not effectively part of the parking supply.
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<br /> If parking demand exceeds the parking supply, an efficient
<br /> ® ( ,ff y// means to reduce the parking shortfall is through effective
<br /> ® y// //% 4 shared parking, which requires cooperation with local
<br />• - - . 3 i government and business leaders. This would require
<br /> connectivity of parking spaces to enhance the accessibility
<br /> ® k ' ' �' 2 / , of the shared spaces, as well as careful planning of
<br /> • : ` " C 3 t , . , �,_#c compatible land uses to ensure that sharing of the spaces is
<br /> ..m::14 bf. ` TN yl a 14 most effective. K&S, has extensive experience with shared
<br /> ,flit a - ui ; =1„� parking and we offer Sunny Isles Beach the know-how
<br /> ;°'as„ t-' necessary to successfully complete these types of detailed
<br /> ® rr parking studies.
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<br /> ,�;, x r� In March 2008, K&S staff prepared a study entitled
<br /> _ Parking Analysis of the Central and Southern Regions
<br /> "` *' ` -Liv of Sunny Isles Beach for the City. As an example of the
<br /> n'B� , J.. issues described above, we evaluated the parking demand
<br /> ® ''° and supply within various areas of the City and provided
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<br /> ® _: _ _ 'l�j"�;KEITH and QSCI MARS,P.A.
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