2016-0114 Special City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes:Special City Commission Meeting January 14,2016 City of Sunny Isles Beach,Florida and so at that study when they present their findings,you will have an opportunity to speak. What you can do is to contrast your ideas with what the Consultants come back with, and then that will get coordinated into the record, and then we are going to have a bunch of decisions to make on how we go about it. Mayor Scholl thanked Ms.Blagerman for coming, and she noted her four classmates and teacher in the audience. Commissioner Aelion said in the Executive Summary you mentioned categories, one of which is Elementary School (K-5). This is a developed facility, not part of the developmental,he understands for purposes of traffic calculation you have inserted as such. Existing dynamic functional and he thinks that is a little misleading, that is not part of the project,just the last four are following that, and he would like that corrected. Also, you are proposing, besides improving signalization, a four-way stop on 183rd Street signals area, which is something in the past that we have tried. Remember that A 1 A is a State road,and if the State has to get involved here, and we have tried a number of times to ask them to improve lights and four-ways stops at certain intersections and they have always been reluctant. Did you or staff approach the State in seeing the feasibility of the State taking action on your recommendations? Mr. Rothore said no, not yet. Commissioner Aelion said you are saying the proposed bus lane on Atlantic Boulevard which according to your drawing would be situated just south of the proposed project. Now that is very close to the entrance to City Hall. Today the scenario is that the Police actually block off vehicle traffic for the required period from the back entrance to the RK Plaza,and so if we would have a situation where the bus lane would be placed more south,that would entail a closure more south and would impede the flow of traffic and the service to our residents from that lane which is extremely important. Collins Avenue is already so congested,and they want to have an alternative,and this is indeed by far the busiest Plaza in our City, and access to it has to be very relevant. Ms. Hasbun said it is not very clear in the image but we are proposing a bus lane actually in the parking lane on Atlantic Boulevard,not on the actual road. Commissioner Aelion said we are talking about a school bus,it will need more room. Ms. Hasbun said yes, we will make modifications to that lane. Mayor Scholl said Atlantic Boulevard is a City street, and so we could put the stop signs at 178th and Atlantic Boulevard, and so the good news there is we can do that if we wanted to. Commissioner Aelion said there is illegal parking by parents on private property and in this particular case, Publix. Today in a present scenario we have about 40%to 50%or more of current pickup time, and maybe even in the morning of parents parking their vehicles on private property to be able to pickup and drop-off their children. That is something that the City has no control of, and he thinks the Police are raising up their hands that they can't do otherwise. In light of the future development of that site which will make it even harder for parking because it is going to be on the upper level, this impact is something that, and he doesn't know if you took it into consideration or not, but it is definitely an impact on the whole projected study. As such, his concern is that if you take into account that those vehicles are not supposed to be there or if those vehicles are4 not to be a part of the present scenario and place them outside which makes them legal parking,then you have a completely different picture. 5