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 Commissioner Aelion said today he received an email and the person who sent it, didn't know about this meeting. This is a parent with four(4)children who live in Golden Shores and she tells him the following: Is anything being done to combat the traffic it causes during school pickup time? It is coming to a point I can't even go to any of the stores around the school at pickup time because there is no place to park, Publix or CVS. Even then with the fact that the residential parking of the regular buyers at the Plaza when there is a pickup of children,it is so flooded that regular residents that don't have to pick up their children cannot park there, and all the parents of course are taking up the parking spaces." And so that is something that is very real and it is happening in real time in our City,and that being such an intricate problem of what we are having, he thinks that is extremely important to address. Mayor Scholl said what Commissioner Aelion wants to understand is if we are doing something, if we could do something,or if it was considered in the plan about the fact that a lot of the vehicle pickup and delivery happens on private property. Chief Maas said it does happen. Mayor Scholl said he feels that the Chief has a different perspective on that because unless the property owner wants us to do something about it,we don't have a lot of bearing on that. Chief Maas said we cannot enforce or do anything with regard to private property. From the very beginning when people were utilizing the Publix parking lot to drop their children off and to either leave their cars and walk them, or to have the children walk which was a huge safety factor, Publix tried to enforce certain things and then quite frankly he believes their corporate offices were contacted and they said to leave it alone. Chief Maas said in the afternoon currently for the pickup what used to be open for the RK Plaza,which you addressed just north of the Government Center, is now blocked off by Mr. Katz who does not allow any ingress or egress which has incensed a lot of customers who try to get into there and don't know that it is blocked off Again, it is private property and we have no enforcement power. Recently Mr. Katz did start towing vehicles from that parking lot that he knew were school related. Commissioner Aelion said he understands the status quo but change is coming to this property. Chief Maas said if you are stating that the private properties that are being utilized currently and have been for the last number of years for pickup and drop-off by parents, if that were taken out of the equation,what would the impact be on our regular streets because it would now be all vehicles that would have to pickup and drop-off The impact would be immense, it would be huge. Commissioner Aelion said that is what he needed to hear and he wanted Mr. Rathore to hear this because he wanted him to be aware of this and to work with this because this is a real thing. Chief Maas said our only salvation right now is the fact that so many people do utilize those parking lots. Commissioner Aelion agrees and the Mayor had expressed it very clearly that we have no power as a City for the benefit of our residents to do anything regarding private property, that is it, and that is his point. Chief Maas said he wanted to make one point, what he was trying to get confirmation on was, and he doesn't want anyone to be misled, the intersection at 178 Street and Atlantic Boulevard is not a four-way stop or a typical four-way intersection. You have 60 feet minimum between the next which would be considered a four-way which is Atlantic because it is offset there. So in theory you would have a three-way stop there, there would be then another stop sign placed further down. Mayor Scholl said the good news is that is doable 6