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4/2/92
RESOLUTION NO.
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A RESOLUTION OF SUPPORT FOR THE APPROPRIATION BY
CONGRESS OF $9 MILLION IN FEDERAL DEPARTMENT OF
TRANSPORTATION HIGHWAY PROGRAM FUNDS TO
CONSTRUCT THE FIRST PHASE OF AN EXPANSION
PROGRAM OF U.S. ROUTE 1 ALONG THE BISCAYNE
BOULEVARD CORRIDOR LINKING THE PORT OF MIAMI TO
INTERSTATE I-395 TO DEMONSTRATE THAT WIDENING
BISCAYNE BOULEVARD AND ADDING PEDESTRIAN
SIDEWALK AND CROSSING SAFETY FACILITIES, STORM
DRAINAGE, LIGHTING AND TRAFFIC TURNING LANE,
SIGNALIZATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPROVEMENTS
WILL RESULT IN SIGNIFICANT ECONOMIC DEV4LOPMENT
ALONG THAT CORRIDOR.
WWEREAS, The fiscal year 1991 United States Department of
Transportation Appropriations Act (P.L. 101-516), dated November
5, 1990 appropriated $48,293,000 out of the General Fund to carry
out feasibility studies, preliminary engineering and
environmental studies and right-of-way acquisition for certain
highway and bicycle transportation projects that demonstrate
methods of promoting economic development; and
WHEREAS, The Conference Report of the United States Congress,
House Report 101-892 dated October 16, 1990, provides $1,700,000
of these funds to be used on Florida's Biscayne Boulevard
Preliminary Engineering Highway Demonstration Project in Miami,
Florida; and
WHEREAS, the Florida Department of Transportation was authorized
to obligate these funds by memorandum dated February 8, 1991 from
the Federal Highway Administration; and
WHEREAS, the City of Miami Commission adopted on July 11, 1991,
Resolution 91-534, authorizing the City Manager to execute an
Agreement with the State of Florida Department of Transportation
for $1,700,000 to prepare preliminary engineering and
construction documents for the Biscayne Boulevard Highway
Demonstration Project and said agreement was executed October
llth of 1991; and
WHEREAS, the
construction
enabling the
1993; and
completion by the City of Miami of the Project
documents is anticipated this year (1992) thus
construction phase of the project to commence in
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}' WHEREAS, the construction of the Project first phase will result
in a critically needed widening of Biscayne Boulevard, as
_ programmed in the Downtown Development of Regional Impact
Application for Development Approval, March 1987, to 216 feet
(double its current width) between NE 5th and 12th Streets to
connect the Port of Miami to Interstate 395 thereby enhancing
tourism and national transhipping commerce from the world's
'I largest cruiseport and the United State's fourth largest port for
export trade and mitigating projected 1995 levels of service
deficiencies on Federal Highway U.S. 1 ; and
WHEREAS, existing substandard highway alignment curvatures,
inadequate storm drainage, hazardous pedestrian crossing
conditions and vehicular turning lane deficiencies will be
corrected as a result of the proposed phase I Biscayne Boulevard
construction project; and
WHEREAS, the reconstruction and widening of Biscayne Boulevard
from NE 5th to 12th Streets will significantly enhance access to
and private redevelopment within the immediately adjacent
Southeast Overtown/Park West Tax Increment redevelopment area
thereby reinforcing the $60 million public investment to date in
Florida's largest urban redevelopment area; and
WHEREAS, the construction of Phase I of the Biscayne Boulevard
Project will result in the creation of over 100 construction jobs
and an economic infusion of over $12 million dollars into the
South Florida economy at a time of economic distress; and
WHEREAS, the City of Miami has offered to contribute as the local
matching share, all of the property needed for the Biscayne
Boulevard right-of-way widening at a cost savings to the Federal
Government of an estimated $20 million dollars in highway land
acquisition costs; and
WHEREAS, the appropriation of the requested $9 million in Federal
funds for the Project's Phase I construction are essential to the
completion of this vitally important Federal Highway Project and
the realization of its strategic transportation and economic
development benefits;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF
MIAMI, FLORIDA:
Section 1. The recitals and findings contained in the
Preamble to this Resolution are hereby incorporated by reference
thereto and adopted herein as if fully set forth in this Section.
Section 2. The Congress of the United States is hereby
urged to consider favorably the appropriation of Phase I
construction funding in the amount of $ 9 million for the
Biscayne Boulevard Preliminary Engineering Highway Demonstration
Project in Miami, Florida, (State of Florida Project 87030-1587).
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Section 3. This Resolution shall become effective
immediately upon its adoption.
PASSED AND ADOPTED THIS 2nd DAY OFF, A��.i,l , 1992.
XAVIER L.
ATTES •
L.
MATTY HIRAI
CITY CLERK
SUBMITTE BY:
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CESAR H. ODIO
CITY MANAGER
LEGAL REVIEW:
I CARMEN LEON
ASSISTANT CITY ATTORNEY
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND CORRECTNESS:
A. QUINN J0,NES, II
CITY AT TO� EY
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