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 9 Collins Avenue. If you can stagger the cars by 10 minutes apart, it would greatly mitigate the amount of impact that is hitting Collins Avenue at one time. What they are saying is, and it is just logic and science, basically if you are going to have 600 cars there, and you spread them out in half hour increments, it is going to mitigate the problem. It is not going to make it go away, it is going to elongate the pain, but it is going to create a lot less impact on the area then having the 600 cars there at one time. That is really all we are talking about. He is hearing a lot of objections but the fact is that there are no easy solutions here, this is not a silver bullet kind of solution. This is going to be a combination solution that basically take a crappy situation and mitigate it a little bit. We have professionals and they came back and are giving us different options here. But logic would tell us that if you take 600 cars that are going to converge on a time zone within a ten-minute window of that time zone, if you spread it out over an hour and a half, it is going to mitigate the impact a little bit at least on the surrounding folks that have to deal with it. He believes that the staggering of the cars will make a difference. Mayor Scholl said let’s go back to the genesis of the problem. When he got elected, and we all know about the traffic problem at the school, and we started to talk about the school expansion project, and he always tries to tie things back to what they call in the blood banking business, Root Cause Analysis. What is the root cause of the problem? The fact is that we live in a City where the weather is nice most of the time, and 80% of the kids that go to that school are within walking distance because it is Winston Towers in the City core, and that is where all the kids live, they are all within walking distance. Yet we have 600 cars in the morning that come to that school to drop kids off. What does that tell us? That tells us that anybody that lives in the City whose kid can walk to school does not want to deal with that issue, and so they let their kid walk or ride their bicycles to school. Mayor Scholl said last Spring he sat down with the City Manager and said we have got to do a study or something to figure out where all these cars are coming from. So what they did was we had some folks go out over the course of a week and take pictures of every license plate in the morning and in the afternoon that was dropping a kid off, be it in the shopping center or by the school, then we ran all those license plates through the DMV, and we actually did this last April or May. It was two different periods. What did we find? We found that there are hundreds of cars coming to school every morning from out of the area. Now, like he said to the School Board, it is not actionable to remove people from the school, but it sure tells us where the genesis of our traffic problem is coming from. Mayor Scholl said the fact is that we have a huge traffic problem there because there are a lot of people going to that school who do not come from our community, and we even discounted the ones that came from Eastern Shores or Golden Beach because we know that they belong here, they are legally in the school. He is talking about people from out of the County. Then the argument is that there are divorced parents and maybe they are staying with the father in Hollywood that week, but the fact of the matter is if he was a divorced parent and he has got to deal with that traffic every morning he would let the kids stay with his Mother during the week and walk to school. But the fact is that we have a tremendous amount of people in that school that don’t belong there. Mayor Scholl said because the Administration was remised on making sure that the folks that