Draft 021016 Workshop Summary Mins re Transportation Master Plan

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City Commission Workshop February 10, 2016 City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida 3 County School Board and that is how we came up with that arrival and departure time. Mr. Rathore said they ran their analysis and the same intersections shown at least one (1) approach failing as far as the future analysis. Scenario 2 is to come up with some sort of mitigation, how we can improve it, what can be done to make it work better. For two (2) intersections, Collins Avenue and 178th Street, and Collins Avenue and 183rd Street, we don’t have to do any major physical improvements, we can achieve that by simply changing the signal timing. There are proposing mitigation in the form of signal timing improvements for these two (2) intersections. For Atlantic Boulevard and 178th Street on the west side, and Atlantic Boulevard and 183rd Street. They are proposing that further evaluation be done to look at if a signal or a four-way stop sign is warranted for those two intersections. That will be part of the proposed mitigation to be able to fix problems with these two intersections that we will be facing in the future. This is just explaining the timing for the existing and for Scenario 2 for the school arrival and departure times. These times were discussed with the Miami Dade County School Board and in our professional opinion this is the most condensed and continue signing. If you look at grades 6 to 8, it starts at 7:40 a.m. then the next school which is K-1 starts at 8:20 a.m., and then the next one is at 8:35 a.m. and so there is a continuous 30 – 40 minutes difference between each class and then departure is about the same. It is important to understand that for every arrival and departure that the Police Officers and the School Guards have to start preparing, like putting in cones and closing driveways at least 40 minutes before the arrival and departure time, and so that is something important that needs to be kept in mind. Mr. Rathore said as part of this project there was some additional proposed mitigation, this is important because this will help in the overall project. School staggered time is one that they are proposing, physical improvements like crosswalks from Atlantic Boulevard to the other side, providing bus lanes, it is very important to educate parents in particular and the community in general, to make them realize the fact that by utilizing traffic system or sending their kids through buses will overall be helpful for the community as a whole. They are proposing that they issue programs making them realize, especially the parents, that this needs to happen. Again, the Police and Traffic control presence absolutely a must and maybe one or two Police Officers may need to be increased as far as the staff is concerned, or the School Guards who help the kids cross, their number needs to be increased as well. Mr. Rathore said on bus services, currently the school has three (3) buses, and 250 to 300 students riding the buses. If the buses are increased to six (6), and people are willing to utilize them, then we would be talking about 500 to 600 students, and that is a significant reduction in the overall traffic and congestion. It is very important that the City participates in the Safe Route to School (SRTS) Program which definitely needs to be looked at. Mr. Rathore said they also did the Share Parking Analysis, they want to find out how many parking spaces are required for this project. One thing that is important to understand that this is a Mixed-Use Project with office, retail, theater, and so every different land use parking peaks at different times of the day. So maybe the office peaks in the morning, or a retail may have from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m., but as a whole there is a shared parking concept. Basically we are not providing extra parking, and the Mixed-Use usage can be utilized at the same time, and so that is the whole concept of shared parking analysis. We typically use ULI