2000-23946 RESO
RESOLUTION NO. 2000-23946
A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE
CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, AUTHORIZING THE
DEVELOPMENT OF A SERIES OF BICYCLE/PEDESTRIAN/ GREENWAY
PROJECTS FOR MIAMI BEACH, TO BE KNOWN AS THE ATLANTIC
CORRIDOR GREENWAY NETWORK; ENCOMPASSING SEVERAL
TRAILS TO BE PLANNED AND IMPLEMENTED AS INDIVIDUAL
PROJECTS, AND THEN LINKED TO PROVIDE CONTINUOUS
CORRIDORS; AND FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE DEVELOPMENT OF
A FUNDING STRATEGY THAT WILL ALLOW FOR THIS CITYWIDE
ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNITY
ENHANCEMENT PROJECT TO BECOME REALITY.
WHEREAS, the City wishes to plan, fund, and implement several bicycle/pedestrian trail
projects in a greenway setting, which trails would be linked to form a continuous Citywide project
to be known as the Atlantic Corridor Greenway Network; and
WHEREAS, some of these trails, facing the ocean, creek, canals, bay, and connecting to
City parks, are presently at different stages of funding, planning, design, and/or construction
readiness; and
WHEREAS, this greenway corridor is recommended by the Miami Beach Municipal
Mobility Plan (MMP), with several of its trails included in the MMP Project Bank and Capital
Improvement Program; and
WHEREAS, the MMP recommends that the Atlantic Corridor Greenway trails be linked to
transit sites, bike-on-bus, and park-and-ride programs to maximize the trails' ability to support and
promote the use of alternative modes of transportation; and
WHEREAS, to meet the alternative transportation vision of the MMP, these trail projects
need to be interconnected to form a continuous, safe, and user-friendly corridor; and
WHEREAS, due to the fact that the Atlantic Corridor trails face the Atlantic Ocean, Indian
Creek, Dade Canal, Government Cut and cruise ships, Biscayne Bay and Miami, while
interconnecting several City parks, it is easy to recognize the projects' value to residents and visitors
alike, as well as to the tourism, modeling and film industries, and to the Miami Beach economy; and
WHEREAS, formal approval of the Atlantic Corridor Greenway Network concept would
significantly increase the City's chances at receiving Federal, State, County and other grant funding
for its component trail projects.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, that the Mayor and City
Commission hereby authorize the development of a series of bicycle/pedestrian/green way projects
for Miami Beach, to be known as the Atlantic Corridor Greenway Network; encompassing several
trails to be planned and implemented as individual projects, and then linked to provide continuous
corridors; and further authorize the development of a funding strategy that will allow for this
Citywide alternative transportation and community enhancement project to become reality.
PASSED AND APPROVED this the 24th day of
May
,2000.
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NBRC EXTENSION SOUTH TO
INDIAN CREEK.
ATLANTIC CORRIDOR MASTER PLAN
DEVELOPMENT (INCLUDING
INTERMODAL TRANSIT SITES).
BEACHWALK CORRIDOR
INDIAN CREEK GREENWAY
CORRIDOR.
DADE BOULEVARD CORRIDOR.
VENETIAN WAY CORRIDOR.
LUMUS PARK CORRIDOR
SOUTH BEACH CORRIDOR
SOUTH POINTE PARK
CORRIDOR.
BAYWALK CORRIDOR.
EAST. WEST CONNECTORS
(NORTH BEACH).
INTERMODAL TRANSIT SITE.
EXHIBIT B
CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA
ATLANTIC CORRIDOR GREENWAY NETWORK
A NETWORK OF BICYCLE/PEDESTRIAN FACILITIES IN A GREENWAY SETTING
The City's Atlantic Corridor will be comprised of eight (8) interconnected bicycle/pedestrian!
greenway trails, as follows:
o NORTH BEACH RECREATIONAL CORRIDOR (NBRC) PHASES I, II. and III
An on-grade, landscaped, paver-stone trail to be built along the western edge of the dune
system, from the northern city limits at 87th Street and North Shore Open Space Park, south
to Altos del Mar Park, North Shore (Band Shell) Park, Allison Park, and Beach View Park
at 53rd Street. At this point, the trail will veer west across Collins Avenue, where it will link
with the proposed Indian Creek Greenways Trail. The NBRC projects are approximately
2.5 miles in length and run parallel to the hotel/commercial area of North Beach. NBRC-I
is funded and undergoing final design/environmental permitting, with construction scheduled
to begin in 2001. NBRC-II is partly funded; and NBRC-III is yet to be funded.
o THE NORTH BEACH NEIGHBORHOOD INTERCONNECTOR TRAILS
A network of on-street trails featuring roadway striping, signage, and street crossing at
protected points. This trail will meander westward from the NBRC to the neighborhoods
surrounding Surfside Park, Tatum Waterway, Normandy Waterway and Normandy Shores
Golf Course, as well as the commercial area of Normandy Street171st Street. North Beach
is a densely populated area comprised of multi-family dwellings on the main island, and
single-family dwellings to the west at Normandy Isle. This trail project is partly funded.
o THE INDIAN CREEK GREENW AYS TRAIL
An on-grade, landscaped, recreational trail to be built along the eastern shore of the Indian
Creek Waterway, from Brittany Park at 65th Street south to Lake Pancoast at Collins Avenue
and 23rd Street, where it will link with the BeachWalk Trail to the south and the Dade
Boulevard/Venetian Way Trail to the west. The Indian Creek Trail, approximately 3 miles
in length, will parallel the hotel area of Middle Beach and an existing beachfront promenade
known as the Boardwalk, and link to Neighborhood Interconnector Trails at 41st Street and
23rd Street areas. This project is partly funded by the City of Miami Beach.
o THE MIDDLE BEACH NEIGHBORHOOD INTERCONNECTOR TRAILS
A network of on-street trails featuring roadway striping, signage, and street crossing at
protected points. This largely single-family dwelling area of Miami Beach is separated from
the eastern seaboard by Indian Creek, Flamingo, and Biscayne Waterways, plus the La Gorce
Golf Club and Bayshore Golf Course, leaving few options for interconnection in the east-
west direction at 63rd Street, 41st Street, and 23rd Street bridges, the first two bridges being
Miami Beach Atlantic Corridor
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heavily used by vehicular traffic. Due to its residential nature, however, Middle Beach offers
viable trail opportunities in the north-south direction at the Pine Tree/La Gorce Drives and
North Bay Road corridors. This project is presently unfunded.
o THE DADE BOULEVARD/VENETIAN WAY TRAIL
Two separate but continuous east-west projects constitute the Dade Boulevard/V enetian Way
Trail (3.5-miles). The upcoming restoration of the northern shoreline of Collins Canal,
which parallels Dade Boulevard from the 23rd Street Bridge to Purdy Avenue, will allow for
the construction of a Dade Boulevard BicyclelPedestrian/Greenway Trail that will also serve
the Convention Center/Garden Center/Holocaust Memorial/Jackie Gleason Theater of the
Performing Arts/City Hall area of Miami Beach. The Venetian Way Trail will run from
Purdy Avenue to downtown Miami on a residential causeway over Biscayne Bay, which
features 12 historically renovated bridges. The Dade/Venetian Trail will link to the beach
corridors on the east, and to Miami's Flagler Trail to the west. The funding packet for both
projects has yet to be completed.
o BEACHW ALK TRAIL. PHASES I AND II
An on-grade paver stone trail to be built along the western edges ofthe sand dunes, from the
end ofthe existing Boardwalk at 21st Street down to Lummus Park by Ocean Drive, Ocean
Front Park, and South Pointe Park (2 miles), serving the Cultural Arts Campus, Art Deco
Historic District and hotel area of South Beach. The Beachwalk Trail will link to both the
Indian Creek and Dade Boulevard Trails to the north; the South Beach Neighborhood
Interconnector Trails to the west; and the Baywalk Trail to the south and west. Beachwalk
Phase I is totally funded by local government, while Beachwalk Phase II remains unfunded.
o SOUTH BEACH NEIGHBORHOOD INTERCONNECTOR TRAILS
A network of on-street trails featuring roadway striping, signage, and street crossing at
protected points. South Beach is a densely populated area of Miami Beach, where single
family and multi-family residential areas fit together with the central business district, hotel
area, and the Art Deco Historic District. A series of east-west trails will connect the Lincoln
Road and central business district, the West Avenue, Flamingo and Park South Pointe
neighborhood to the Beachwalk/BaywalkJDade Trails. This project has yet to be funded.
o BA YW ALK TRAIL
An on-grade, landscaped, paver stone trail to be built along the Biscayne Bay shoreline from
the MacArthur Causeway at 5th Street and Alton Road, south through the Miami Beach
Marina, and around the southern end of Miami Beach and linking to South Pointe Park and
the Beachwalk. This project is to be funded by developer and constructed on City easement.
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COMMISSION MEMORANDUM NO. ~"3 \ -()c)
TO:
Mayor Neisen O. Kasdin and
Members of the City Commission
Lawrence A. Levy I V
City Manager MJJ
DATE: May 24, 2000
FROM:
SUBJECT:
A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE
CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, AUTHORIZING THE
DEVELOPMENT OF A SERIES OF BICYCLEIPEDESTRIAN/GREENW A Y
PROJECTS FOR MIAMI BEACH, TO BE KNOWN AS THE ATLANTIC
CORRIDOR GREENWAY NETWORK; ENCOMPASSING SEVERAL
TRAILS TO BE PLANNED AND IMPLEMENTED AS INDIVIDUAL
PROJECTS, AND THEN LINKED TO PROVIDE CONTINUOUS
CORRIDORS; AND FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE DEVELOPMENT OF
A FUNDING STRATEGY THAT WILL ALLOW FOR THIS CITYWIDE
ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNITY
ENHANCEMENT PROJECT TO BECOME REALITY.
ADMINISTRA TION RECOMMENDATION
Adopt the Resolution.
ANALYSIS
This Resolution was deferred from the May 10, 2000, City Commission meeting.
The concept of an Atlantic Corridor Greenway Network and its component bicycle/pedestrian!
greenway trail projects requires approval by the Mayor and Commission in order to facilitate funding
for its planning, design, permitting, and construction phases, via the Metropolitan Planning
Organization (MPO), Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), the U.S. House of
Representatives' Appropriations Committee, and other grant sources. In fact, the above-mentioned
agencies are requiring that a copy of a Resolution of support by the City Commission be included
with all future requests for funding for any of the Atlantic Corridor trail projects.
The Atlantic Corridor Greenway Network will provide a continuous, safe, and pleasant
bicycle/pedestrian!greenway facility running from North Shore Open Space Park south to Lummus
Park and South Pointe Park, and around the comer to the Miami Beach Marina, interconnecting with
the City neighborhoods via on-street east/west connectors, and via a proposed Dade
BoulevardNenetian Way Trail, as shown in a map attached hereto as Exhibit A. These trails are
fully described in Exhibit B to this Commission Memorandum.
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Commission Memorandum
Atlantic Corridor Resolution
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The proposed Network includes several trails that would be planned and implemented as individual
projects and then linked together to form the Atlantic Corridor. Some ofthese linkages will require
detailed study and creative solutions to resolve the challenges facing bicyclists and pedestrians at
heavy traffic areas, such as the 63rd Street Flyover, 26th Street123rd Street/Collins Avenue, and
Dade Boulevard/Alton Road areas.
Bicycle/pedestrian facilities are presently provided in North Shore Open Space Park, Lummus Park,
and South Pointe Park. Two additional facilities by the seashore are fully funded and nearing
construction - the Beachwalk Trail in South Beach (from 21st Street to Lummus Park), and the
North Beach Recreational Corridor Phase I (from 75th Street to 64th Street). These existing and
proposed trails, however, are just a few blocks in length and do not provide for the interconnections
that would maximize parks/trails usage and attractiveness. The benefits of developing a network
of linked trails and parks would be numerous, as the trails would do the following for Miami Beach:
1. Become natural extensions of the City's park system;
2. Promote the use of alternative means of transportation (walking, biking, rollerblading);
3. Encourage the use of transit, bike-on-bus and park-and-ride programs;
4 Maximize the scenic value of Miami Beach, by facing the Atlantic Ocean, Indian Creek,
Dade Canal, Government Cut and cruise ships, Biscayne Bay, the seaport and Miami, while
interconnecting the City parks;
5. Create new commuting and recreation options for residents and visitors alike;
6. Create new venues and opportunities for the modeling, film, and tourism industries; and
7. Ultimately, the linked trails would be of benefit to the Miami Beach image and economy.
Costs Overview and Funding Sources. A preliminary Atlantic Greenway Corridor Cost Overview,
herein attached as Exhibit C, roughly estimates that it will cost a minimum of $35 million to
implement the main spines of the bicycle/pedestrian/greenway network. It also indicates that
approximately $20 million is already funded through various sources, and approximately $15 million
has yet to be identified. As previously stated, fully funded segments are only the NBRC-I in North
Beach and the Beachwalk Trail in South Beach.
For the partly funded or unfunded Atlantic Corridor Greenway projects, a five-year strategy would
be pursued, with the following funding sources being likely to produce results:
() The MPO's Transportation Enhancement Program, at no more than $1 million/year per
project, or a maximum of $3 million in three (3) years for the same project. The MPO has
recently awarded $900,000 for the NBRC-II project, and the Venetian Way project is in line
to receive $1 million in the next year funding cycle.
May 24, 2000
Commission Memorandum
Atlantic Corridor Resolution
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o The FDOT/MPO process, out of a 1.5% set-aside for the MPO's North Dade Greenway
Program from the annual Miami-Dade Surface Transportation Program (STP), of which our
Atlantic Corridor is a component and eligible project. The funds available from this source
could possibly produce an additional $1.5 million/year to our projects.
o Federal earmarks through the V A-HUD and/or Interior and Related Agencies Sub-
Committees of the U.S. House Appropriations Committee may also prove to be recurring
sources of funding for the Atlantic Corridor Greenway projects, through their respective
Economic Development Initiative (EDI) grant and Parks Recovery programs. In fact, a V A-
HUD/EDI grant, in the amount of $231,000 was already awarded to NBRC projects and
appropriated by the City Commission on May 10,2000. Testimonies requesting $15 million
in funds were recently presented in Washington, D.C., to the above-named Sub-
Committees.
o The Florida Rivers and Trails Program, funded by the Forever Florida Trust, will be an
additional source, as soon as the Tallahassee office finalizes the criteria, timeline, and
selection process for grant applications.
o In addition, we hope Governor Bush will sign a proposed $450,000 State allocation for the
North Beach Recreational Corridor Project, as introduced by Senator Silver and approved
by the Conference Committee.
The transportation, recreational, environmental, tourism, and economic benefits to be derived by
Miami Beach from the implementation of such a 'world class' Atlantic Corridor Greenway Network
are only imaginable now, but quite probable.
Further into the future, connection would be made to similar facilities being planned by communities
north and southwest of Miami Beach, as part of the MPO's Atlantic Trail/North Dade Greenways
Project (Exhibit D), and the Flagler Trail/South Dade Greenways Project. There is even a much
more ambitious East Coast Greenway Project, planned to span the nation's eastern seaboard, from
Maine to Key West.
The Administration recommends approval of the Resolution.
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Attachments: Exhibits
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