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155-1998 LTC CITY OF MIAMI BEACH CITY HALL 1700 CONVENTION CENTER DRIVE MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA 33139 http:\\cLmiami-beach,f1.us L.T.C. No. 1 <;<;-1998 LETTER TO COMMISSION November 6, 1998 TO: Mayor Neisen O. Kasdin and Members of the City Co mission FROM: Sergio Rodriguez City Manager ~ SUBJECT: MUNICIPAL MOBILITY PLAN WORKSHOP NOVEMBER 9, 1998 Attached you will find a draft ofthe Municipal Mobility Plan (MMP) and a draft ofthe Commission Memorandum that will be presented for approval on November 18, 1998. The Commission Workshop was requested by the Transportation and Parking Committee to provide an overview of the MMP which consists of a transportation framework for Miami Beach and the policies supporting this vision. The Commission Memorandum provides the background and analysis that has culminated in the draft plan presented herein. Brian Mirson, President of Carr Smith Corradino, and consultant to the City, will facilitate the workshop scheduled from 1 :00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. A question and answer session will follow the presentation. SR:CMC/jph Attachments ;CITY OF MIAMI BEACH CllY HALL 1700 CONVENTION CENTER DRIVE MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA 33139 http:\\ci.miami-beach.fJ,us L.T.C. No. 11:11:1-1998 LETTER TO COMMISSION November 6, 1998 TO: Mayor Neisen O. Kasdin and Members of the City Co ission FROM: Sergio Rodriguez City Manager SUBJECT: MUNICIPAL MOBILITY PLAN WORKSHOP NOVEMBER 9, 1998 Attached you will find a draft of the Municipal Mobility Plan (NfMP) and a draft of the Commission Memorandum that will be presented for approval on November 18, 1998. The Commission Workshop was requested by the Transportation and Parking Committee to provide an overview of the MMP which consists of a transportation framework for Miami Beach and the policies supporting this vision. The Commission Memorandum provides the background and analysis that has culminated in the draft plan presented herein. Brian Mirson, President of Carr Smith Corradino, and consultant to the City, will facilitate the workshop scheduled from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. A question and answer session will follow the presentation. SR:CMC/jph Attachments AGENDA CITY COMMISSION WORKSHOP THE MUNICIPAL MOBILITY PLAN'S TRANSPORTATION VISION FOR MIAMI BEACH Monday, November 9, 1998, from 1 :00 to 5:00 P.M. Commission Chamber I. INTRODUCTION ~ Elayne Weisburd, Chairperson, Transportation and Parking Committee, will present the Committee's Resolution endorsing the Transportation Vision for Miami Beach, as proposed by the Municipal Mobility Plan (MMP) ~ Neil Fritz, Vice-Chairman, Transportation and Parking Committee. II. PRESENTATION: THE MMP'S TRANSPORTATION VISION FOR MIAMI BEACH by Brian Mirson, President of Carr Smith Corradino, the MMP Consultants III. QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION for Mayor, City Commission, and Administration IV. QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION for the Public V. CONCLUSION This is not a public hearing (mmpwkspl.j CITY OF MIAMI BEACH CITY HALL 1700 CONVENTION CENTER DRIVE MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA 33139 http:\\cI.miaml-beach.f1.us COMMISSION MEMORANDUM NO. TO: Mayor Neisen O. Kasdin and Members of the City Commission DATE: November 18, 1998 FROM: Sergio Rodriguez City Manager DRAFT SUBJECT: A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, ADOPTING A CITY'S VISION FOR TRANSPORTATION, BEING PROPOSED BY THE MIAMI BEACH MUNICIP AL MOBILITY PLAN, AS DEVELOPED BY CARR SMITH CORRADINO, CONSULTANTS, AND ENDORSED BY THE TRANSPORT A TION AND PARKING COMMITTEE. ADMINISTRATION RECOMMENDATION Adopt the Resolution. BACKGROUND The success of Miami Beach as a residential and business community and as a tourist and convention destination, has created serious mobility problems for our island city. It soon became evident that the City needed to master plan for the community transportation needs in a comprehensive, citywide, non-traditional and creative basis, in order to meet the challenges of a 21 st Century Miami Beach, while maintaining and enhancing the character of our unique community. Responding to this need, a scope of services for a Miami Beach Municipal Mobility Plan (MMP) was developed in March 1994 by the City's transportation staff. After extensive lobbying efforts by the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce (1996 and 1997 Goals Conferences), and the City's Transportation and Parking Committee, the $150,000 funding packet was completed in 1997, when $35,000 in Miami Beach Redevelopment Agency funds and $36,500 in Parking Enterprise Funds complemented the $78,500 in funds granted by the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), in 1995. Through the request for proposals (RFP) process, the firm of Carr Smith Corradino was hired in April 1997 to develop the MMP. An order to proceed was issued in July, with a project timeline of approximately twelve months. At this November 18, 1998 meeting, an amendment to the original agreement has been submitted for approval, adding $9,800 to the project cost, to compensate the Consultants for additional work required by the City, above and beyond the original scope of services. The total project cost is now $159,800. AGENDA ITEM DATE DRAFT ANAL YSIS As presented and discussed at the November 9, 1998, City Commission Workshop, the MMP is this City's fIrst "grassroots" effort to master plan for the community's transportation needs. The MMP addresses the issues and needs for mobility of all types, including traffic, transit, pedestrians, bicycles and other non-motorized vehicles. The MMP establishes the City's Vision for Transportation, makes specific recommendations for meeting the needs identified (the Ten-Year Plan), provides a "Project Bank" of strategies for addressing the issues, and establishes the planning tools for guiding on-going decisions related to mobility. In addition, the MMP is an evolving plan. The data-base developed will require an update, every two to three years, in ord~r to meet the changing needs of Miami Beach. For the first time in Miami Beach history, the City Commission is being requested to adopt a policy direction for the City's transportation future, or a Transportation Vision for Miami Beach. This Vision emerged from an extensive public involvement process, with input from elected and appointed officials, as well as from staff of the City and other agencies. Attached herein, is a Resolution from the City's Transportation and Parking Committee, endorsing the MMP-proposed Transportation Vision for Miami Beach. The following are the Vision components: o Achieve a balanced and multimodal approach to transportation planning. o Achieve quality of life and improved mobility through well-designed traffic management techniques. o Preserve and enhance the "spine" - the regional roadway system and major collector roads. o Emphasize quality, not quantity in terms of roadway function, safety, and operational characteristics. o Achieve a casual but effective traffic flow by improving intersections, while implementing street calming measures. o Improve the driver/rider experience by reducing the causes of driver/rider frustration. o Meet the unique needs of residents and visitors through improved public transit options. o Create an effective link between recreation and mobility in order to establish Miami Beach as an outdoor recreation area. o Enhance the City's unique sense of place through appropriate transportation planning efforts. o "Harness" transportation to support positive development patterns, as defined in the City's Comprehensive Plan. The Vision components listed above are detailed in the MMP's Transportation Vision brochure, which is included with your Agenda packet. If the policy framework contained in the Vision is not approved by the City Commission, we will not be able to implement the MMP's specific recommendations, which are listed in the next page. The MMP produced and analyzed the comprehensive and specific traffic data required to develop the MMP per se, which data will be used, along with the policies contained in the Transportation Vision, to develop the traffic component of the computer program known as the Concurrency Management System (CMS). The CMS will become one of the City's growth management tools, in support of policies adopted by the City. Please note that the CMS is being developed as a separate effort from the MMP. DRAFT The MMP does!!21 provide a ready-made answer or a transportation planning study for each individual Miami Beach transportation project. These projects will have to be studied, planned, and evaluated, based on its merits, on a case by case basis. If the Transportation Vision for Miami Beach is approved by the City Commission, the specific MMP recommendations are as follows: 1. Reclassify the Miami Beach roadway system to reflect the actual operating patterns in our community. This will give us the flexibility needed to achieve the sustainability goals of the Miami Beach community. 2. Preserve and enhance the "spine" - the regional roadway system and major collector roads, for purposes of mobility, livability, accessibility, sustainability, and hurricane evacuation. A "casual" but effective traffic flow occurs, when operational improvements to key intersections and signalization, along with corridor calming measures are implemented. 3. Implement corridor enhancement and safety improvement projects, which include traffic calming measures, street beautification, crosswalks, better signage, etc. 4. Promote and support the creation of intermodal transit centers, and improved citywide transit options (not necessarily operated by the City), with well-planned connections to the mainland. 5. Implement a network of bicycle and pedestrian ways (greenways), which interconnect with transit and a system of sidewalks and crosswalks to serve the recreation, entertainment, and other needs of the community. 6. Make the City's transportation circulation and land-use patterns more interconnected. 7. Incorporate the Transportation Analysis Zone (TAZ) method of planning to the link analysis method presently required in the Comprehensive Plan. 8. Explore the potential benefits of creating "transit villages," also known as transportation concurrency management areas (TCMAs), which allow the unique character of areas, such as South Beach, to be recognized, preserved, and enhanced through special planning procedures. 9, Implement an Automated Concurrency Management System (ACMS) as a transportation planning and growth management tool of the MMP. 10. Accept in principle the MMP-proposed "Project Bank" of strategies, which are the basis for the 10-year Plan. 11. Commit designated staff and provide the essential equipment needed to insure that the MMP is implemented and updated in a proper, effective, and timely manner; and DRAFT 12. Provide a City "reserve fund" to help the MMP effort and its proposed lO-Year Plan become reality. Federal transportation dollars are available to applicant municipalities, as a result of the six-year Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21 Bill), recently approved by the U.S. Congress. However, in order to receive any Federal, State and other funds, the City needs to be financially prepared to do the following: ~ Provide at least a 20% local cash match to MPO funds awarded for planning studies required for each individual transportation project included in the 1 0- Year Plan. ~ Provide at least a 20% local cash match to the agency funds being awarded for project design/engineering and construction; and ~ Advance all funds for study, design/engineering, and construction of each transportation project, for subsequent reimbursement by the appropriate funding agencies. After the City's Transportation Vision is approved, direct the Administration to develop an implementation plan for the Vision, for subsequent consideration by the City Commission. CONCLUSION The Administration recommends that the City Commission approve the Resolution, and direct the Administration to develop an implementation plan. Included with the Agenda packet: Proposed MMP Transportation Vision for Miami Beach. SR/CC/JJ/ AJ (mmpamend)aj DRAFT RESOLUTION NO. A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, ADOPTING A CITY'S VISION FOR TRANSPORT A TION, BEING PROPOSED BY THE MIAMI BEACH MUNICIPAL MOBILITY PLAN, AS DEVELOPED BY CARR SMITH CORRADINO, CONSULTANTS, AND ENDORSED BY THE TRANSPORTATION AND PARKING COMMITTEE. WHEREAS, Resolution No. 97-22354 approved a Professional Services Agreement with Carr Smith Corradino, to develop a Municipal Mobility Plan (MMP) for Miami Beach; and WHEREAS, the MMP is this City's first "grassroots" effort to master plan for the community's transportation needs; it addresses the issues and needs for mobility of all types, including traffic, transit, pedestrians, bicycles and other non-motorized vehicles; establishes the City's Vision for Transportation, makes specific recommendations for meeting the needs identified (the Ten-Year Plan), provides a "Project Bank" of strategies for addressing the issues, and establishes the planning tools for guiding on-going decisions related to mobility; and WHEREAS, the MMP is an evolving plan which data base requires update every two to three years, in order to meet the ever changing needs of Miami Beach; and WHEREAS, the core of the MMP is the Transportation Vision it proposes for Miami Beach, and certain planning tools that will help implement this vision; and WHEREAS, this Transportation Vision emerged from an extensive public involvement process, with input from elected and appointed officials, as well as from staff of the City and other agencies; and WHEREAS, this Vision was endorsed by the City's Transportation and Parking Committee, and was presented and discussed at a MMP Workshop with the City Commission, held on November 9, 1998. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, that the Mayor and City Commission adopt a City's Vision for Transportation, being proposed by the Miami Beach Municipal Mobility Plan, as developed by Carr Smith Corradino, Consultants, and endorsed by the Transportation and Parking Committee. PASSED AND APPROVED this the day of , 1998. ATTEST: MAYOR CITY CLERK aJ TRANSPORTATION AND PARKING COMMITTEE Resolution of Support for Proposed Municipal Mobility Plan Whereas traffic congestion, speeding, neighborhood intrusion of automotive traffic, and conflict between automotive traffic and pedestrians, bicycles and other forms of mobility present severe and ongoing problems in the City of lYliami Beach; and Whereas the need to develop a coordinated system for mitigating future development as it affects transportation, parking, and other mobility issues in the City; and Whereas the City of Miami Beach Transportation and Parking Committee has worked for more than a year with staff and administration of the City to review the progress of the proposed lYlunicipal Mobility Plan and has for the last six months actively participated in the community participation elements of the planning process; The Transportation and Parking Committee of the City of Miami Beach hereby endorses in principal the recommendations put fonvard in the Municipal Mobility Plan, subject to the development of a Project Bank and specific project recommendations. Recommendations endorsed specifically include · reclassification of roadway system to reflect local objectives and the commitment to preserve and enhance a "spine" for regional mobility · requiring development mitigation according to impact on identified zones rather than on specific roadway links · improving and expanding existing transit systems The Project Bank shall include, but not be limited to recommendations for the following projects: · 63rd Street/ Indian River intersection · Dade Boulevard Corridor · Pine Tree/LaGorce Corridor · 71st Street & Normandy (including speeding issues) · 41st Street (Alton Road intersection & Mt. Sinai connection) · Alton Road - 15th to 17th Str~ets " In addition, the Municipal Mobility Plan shall identify objectives for · Desired frequency and scale of public transit · Necessity of enforcement to ensure marine/ water safety · "Zone" vs. "link" approach to mitigation Furthermore, the Transportation and Parking Committee recommends that the City Commission and City Administration develop a specific scope of services for a contract to engage a consultant to provide the technical expertise to facilitate the development of an Implementation Plan for Municipal Mobility, including the development of project priorities based on funding availability and neighborhood objectives, and including a target schedule and outline plan for construction mitigation.