2016-0915 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes:Regular City Commission Meeting September 15,2016 City of Sunny Isles Beach,Florida 7. ORDINANCES FOR FIRST READING 7A. An Ordinance of the City Commission of the City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, Amending Chapter 238 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Sunny Isles Beach to Add a New Section 238-16 Regulating Work Within the City of Sunny Isles Beach Rights-of-Way; Providing for Standards for Construction and Repairs of Streets Within the Boundaries of the City; Providing for Suspension of Permit; Providing for Exceptions; Providing for Severability; Providing for Inclusion in the Code; Providing for Repealer; Providing for an Effective Date. Action: City Clerk Hines read the title, and City Manager Russo said the purpose of this Ordinance is to improve any necessary repairs to the pavement, the surface of roadways in the City which we may have repaved within five (5) years. Fundamentally, what happens with streets is, you have the utility companies that from time to time have emergencies whether it is the water company, the County Sewer Department, the gas company, or even FPL with wires that they have underground,and they have to do emergency excavations in a road. This can happen to a road that is 10 years old, 20 years old, but when it happens to a road that we have just recently resurfaced that might be less than five (5) years old, this is going to put a somewhat more onerous repair procedure in place for the utility company. As an example, typically if a utility has to do an emergency repair you will see a trench in the middle of the asphalt pavement cut out for the length of their work and then you will see a repair, and it always looks different than the rest of the road. What this will do is, for those streets that are less than five (5)years old, they will have to go curb to curb with that repair, and for a certain length of whatever the work that they were doing. The idea is to keep the road looking newer, fresher and smoother for a longer period of time. The motivation for this is we are in the process of totally rehabilitating the single largest road that the City owns in this City and that is 174th Street. With the anticipated completion of that project,we want to make sure that utility companies are not going to come in the next day and start cutting open that road and leaving patches in it after we just finished the multi-million dollar project. Public Speakers: None Commissioner Aelion said the issue is sidewalks that basically become part of an entrance to a single family home where part of the entrance is for vehicular purpose, and there are areas where the property line ends inside a moat or garage area wherein it becomes a common area. How would we treat that issue if it ever arose about standardizing that particular area: a) it could become a common area between private and public; and b) if it is asphalted enough? City Manager Russo said the only areas that would come into play on a repair of a public street, because he is talking within the curb to curb on this paving, would be where the entrance to that private entity, the common element as you say, would not be effected. We would seek which we did on 174th Street, the permission of the property owners and in this case the Associations, to be able to properly grade the asphalt and blend it in with their entranceway. We have to re-pitch a lot of the entranceway driveways where we had to go back a few feet and so we would take that into consideration if it were something right on the entrance. Commissioner Aelion said in other words whether it is a public undertaking or by the private property owner this would apply. City Manager Russo said we would require them to repair properly even if that means, and it could very likely happen,that it requires taking it back a few feet to have it pitched properly. 5