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 4 Urban Land Use Institute for shared parking, and at the same time the City Parking Code was also looked at to calculate parking requirements. What we found out was that about 153 shared parking spaces are required for school, for office, for retail, and for this Project. Mr. Rathore said in conclusion, in their professional opinion the best approach where traffic is concerned is the staggered traffic approach for the middle school, additional mitigation of what they are proposing like providing sidewalks, crosswalks, educate parents and the community encouraging them to use more bus service for their kids, and increasing the number of buses from 3 to 6 or 7, participation in the Safe Route to School (SRTS) Program, and most importantly Police and Crossing Guards presence needs to be kept in mind, and the need to provide 153 shared parking spaces for this Mixed-Use project. Mayor Scholl said we have one public speaker and asked her to come up. Gabriella Blagerman, a Senior at the Alonzo and Tracy Mourning High School, said she is here today because she thinks there is a way to improve the public safety of our City. She has been a resident here for 17 years, she believes this City is a great place to live in, but they are trying to focus on pedestrians and safety at the crosswalks. We are planning to pass a Bill with a company named Project Citizen that has in the past gone all the way up to Tallahassee. The reason they are here today is because they are planning to focus this primarily for Sunny Isles Beach and they are looking at different alternative methods at different costs. She knows there is one yield sign around Newport where you click the button and it lights up, and so they are looking at something more efficient where it is on the crosswalk itself. They range in price from thousands of dollars to a couple of hundred dollars. On Lakeshore Drive in Chicago, they have lines painted on the road where it gives an illusion of the driver speeding so they slow down. Basically, the reason she is here is to let the Commission know they are forming this and they are looking forward to contacting you. Mayor Scholl said we have good news for you. This year we have commissioned a study, it has been almost a year now, for pedestrian safety and traffic impact. We are going to have a Workshop on it, and so if you want to leave your name and number with the City Clerk, we will let you know when we have that Workshop. A lot of things you are talking about are going to be incorporated into the results of that study. It is better when we do that together, 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 A1A 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