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Summary Minutes:Special City Commission Meeting January 14,2016 City of Sunny Isles Beach,Florida <br /> he had highlighted,five(5)of the intersections they showed from an overall perspective were <br /> okay. From an operations point of view, from a delayed perspective they were operating <br /> okay. But all of these intersections had at least one(1)failing approach and are highlighted. <br /> Mr. Rathore said as part of the second phase we go to the future conditions. The future <br /> conditions is current traffic plus the future anticipated citywide road plus the proposed <br /> project traffic. Everything together approximately 2,300 future school enrollment plus this <br /> mixed-use project which needs to be looked at as part of the future conditions. Once they <br /> looked at the results, it was important to highlight mitigation for the future conditions. As <br /> part of the mitigation effort he came up with, as part of the study,two scenarios which were <br /> analyzed as part of the mitigation. Scenario 1 was to just look at traffic, school arrival and <br /> departure traffic as is, and add the project traffic on top of that. Scenario 2 was more of a <br /> standard school option, you have K-1 arriving at a certain time, 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. and <br /> departing at 3:05 p.m. Middle School arriving at 6:00 to 8:00 arriving at 7:40 a.m. and <br /> departing at 2:20 p.m. By the way, that 6:00 to 8:00 timing was discussed at Miami-Dade <br /> County School Board and that is how we came up with that arrival and departure time. <br /> Mr. Rathore said they ran their analysis and the same intersections shown at least one (1) <br /> approach failing as far as the future analysis. Scenario 2 is to come up with some sort of <br /> mitigation, how we can improve it, what can be done to make it work better. For two (2) <br /> intersections,Collins Avenue and 178th Street,and Collins Avenue and 183rd Street,we don't <br /> have to do any major physical improvements, we can achieve that by simply changing the <br /> signal timing. There are proposing mitigation in the form of signal timing improvements for <br /> these two (2) intersections. For Atlantic Boulevard and 178th Street on the west side, and <br /> Atlantic Boulevard and 183rd Street. They are proposing that further evaluation be done to <br /> look at if a signal or a four-way stop sign is warranted for those two intersections. That will <br /> be part of the proposed mitigation to be able to fix problems with these two intersections that <br /> we will be facing in the future. This is just explaining the timing for the existing and for <br /> Scenario 2 for the school arrival and departure times. These times were discussed with the <br /> Miami Dade County School Board and in our professional opinion this is the most condensed <br /> and continue signing. If you look at grades 6 to 8, it starts at 7:40 a.m. then the next school <br /> which is K-1 starts at 8:20 a.m., and then the next one is at 8:35 a.m. and so there is a <br /> continuous 30 —40 minutes difference between each class and then departure is about the <br /> same. It is important to understand that for every arrival and departure that the Police <br /> Officers and the School Guards have to start preparing, like putting in cones and closing <br /> driveways at least 40 minutes before the arrival and departure time,and so that is something <br /> important that needs to be kept in mind. <br /> Mr.Rathore said as part of this project there was some additional proposed mitigation,this is <br /> important because this will help in the overall project. School staggered time is one that they <br /> are proposing,physical improvements like crosswalks from Atlantic Boulevard to the other <br /> side, providing bus lanes, it is very important to educate parents in particular and the <br /> community in general, to make them realize the fact that by utilizing traffic system or <br /> sending their kids through buses will overall be helpful for the community as a whole. They <br /> are proposing that they issue programs making them realize,especially the parents,that this <br /> needs to happen. Again,the Police and Traffic control presence absolutely a must and maybe <br /> one or two Police Officers may need to be increased as far as the staff is concerned, or the <br /> 3 <br />