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 7 indicated that this time was selected after we had a detailed discussion with the Miami-Dade County School Board. They provided us with a list of elementary schools, middle schools, etc. for all of the Miami-Dade County area out of which we looked at different middle schools and there were options starting at 7:20 a.m. and at 7:40 a.m., and so that is how we picked that time. Commissioner Levin asked how SRTS work? Ms. Hasbun said we are looking into that, she does not know the details exactly but it is a combination of a program within the School Board and FDOT, and the MPO, and so all of these agencies work together to create certain improvements to an area surrounding school that would allow for kids and parents to walk their kids to school. Commissioner Levin asked if they actually devise the plan and give money? Ms. Hasbun said yes, they do work on plans and grants for these improvements. Commissioner Levin said we have classes starting and ending with the day beginning at a certain time and it ends at a certain time. What are the lag times before and after the times that the classes begin and end because if we are thinking of staggering it, we will still get left over traffic from before-hand. Is it really helping at all? Mr. Rothore said it does help because in Scenario 1 as he had indicated in his presentation, one option is that everybody shows up for school, kindergarten all the way to 8th grade, and you have an absolute nightmare or gridlock. The better option is to stagger them and then provide like a 30-minute or 40-minute arrival staggered difference, and at the same time for departure also. And so we are looking at the best possible option that is out there. Of course the worst option is that everybody shows up and out of that option, the better option is that you stagger them. Commissioner Levin said if the later people are starting to show up before classes begin, are they going to merge with the outgoing traffic of the people that have just been dropped off? Is it part of what you look at? Mr. Rothore said from a traffic study perspective, and it is all reasonable assumptions of course that we typically use and apply. For other studies that he has done, the assumption is if your departure time is 1:50 or 2:20, there is no reason for you to be there at 12:50 or 1:00. You can probably be five or ten minutes early, or five or ten minutes late and then maybe 5% or 10% traffic that kind of merge with other grades but if there is a certain time and everybody is getting out, let’s say 1:50, and the next one is 2:20 and the next one is 3:05, from a realistic point of view it will be happening at a separate staggered time, that is the assumption behind it. Commissioner Levin said she understands but she doesn’t know how much it will improve, is it just going to prolong the whole time, that we are going to be gridlocked or is it actually going to help because it will be better by a certain percentage but we can’t tell. Commissioner Levin said for the school parking next door, there was a number of parking spaces given for the school, their teachers from the annex will be parking here? We are going to have additional teachers because the school will be growing, additional classes, and so we need additional school parking, is that what that is about? Mr. Rothore said right, the share parking analysis that we performed, it included parking specifically for school usage. We looked at the number of classes, and looking at the City Code, minimum parking that we are supposed to be providing for each class, and then based on that we alternatively came up with a total for the shared parking, and so yes, school parking was definitely considered separately and was looked upon. Commissioner Levin said the 250-seat theater, and the proposed 63 parking spaces, is that because you are assuming that most events that will take