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City of Sunny Isles Beach Water Supply Plan Update First Reading January 21,2016 Adoption Hearing April 21,2016 2.0 BACKGROUND INFORMATION 2.1 Overview The City of Sunny Isles Beach is a municipality of 21,954 residents (Table 1) according to the Miami-Dade County Water and Sewer Department Wholesale Customers spreadsheet. This closely mirrors the University of Florida Bureau of Economic and Business Research (BEBR) data. The City of North Miami Beach has projected that the 2015 population is 22,800. Encompassing 2.63 square miles, Sunny Isles Beach is located on a barrier island in the northeast corner of Miami-Dade County. The City is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the east, the Town of Golden Beach to the north, unincorporated Miami-Dade County to the south (Haulover Park), and the Cities of North Miami Beach and Aventura to the west. The City celebrated its 18th anniversary on June 16, 2015. The City's convenient location—halfway between the major metropolitan centers of Miami to the south and Ft Lauderdale to the north—attracts nearly one million vacationers each year. Visitors and residents alike are attracted by the City's two-mile long fine-sand beach and water-based outdoor activities such as water sports, boating, and fishing. The City's historic Newport Fishing Pier (Sunny Isles Fishing Pier) is a local favorite while Samson Oceanfront Park provides a children's play area, and space to relax, socialize, and view the sun rise over the Atlantic. Originally developed as a tourist resort in 1920 by land investor Harvey Graves in 1920, the City was designed to be the "Venice of America". Developers transformed the sleepy beach into a desirable beach front community with islands, canals, inlets, and water front properties that faced the Biscayne Bay and Intracoastal Waterway. The City grew steadily through the later part of the 1900's as the area became known as a beach playground for the rich and famous. Today the area boasts a diverse housing stock with three distinct single-family neighborhoods, a variety of new and redeveloped luxury waterfront condominiums, and visitor based hotels. According to projected population per local government (Table 4-4, NMB 10-year Water Supply Facilities Work Plan) data the NMB Utility the City's estimated population in 2015 is 22,800. By 2020 the Utility projects the population to increase to 25,800, to 27,400 by 2025 and to 29,600 by 2030. It should be noted that the NMB Utility's population projections differ from the projections from both Miami-Dade County and BEBR. This is due to a difference in methodology used to determine the population projections, with the Utility factoring the maximum density possible. Since this Water Plan Update utilizes the water supply calculations made in accordance with the Utility's population projections, the Water Plan utilizes the higher NMB Utility projections. However, since the City is built out and the only new population will result from infill and redevelopment efforts, the City does not believe the