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Resolution: R-03-1096
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Drive
Miami, FL 33133
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File Number: 03-0028 Final Action Date: 10/9/2003
A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION APPROVING THE
ADMINISTRATION'S REQUEST TO THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF
TRANSPORTATION THAT THE TRAVEL LANES BE REDUCED FROM THREE
TO TWO LANES IN EACH DIRECTION BETWEEN THE LIMITS OF NORTHEAST
37TH STREET AND NORTHEAST 54TH STREETS, AND THAT THE LANE
WIDTH BE REDUCED FROM 10.5 FEET TO 10.0 FEET BETWEEN THE LIMITS
OF NORTHEAST 67TH STREET TO NORTHEAST 87TH STREET, MIAMI,
FLORIDA, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE URBAN STREETS POLICY TR-1.4.4.
WHEREAS, the Miami Comprehensive Neighborhood Plan, Policy No. TR-1.4.4, provides that
the City of Miami ("City") in cooperation with the Florida Department of Transportation ("FDOT"),
will seek to reduce speeds and provide wide sidewalks, medians, roundabouts, landscaping,
attractive lighting, creative and informative signage, on -street parking, and other design features
and amenities as appropriate; and
WHEREAS, FDOT, owner of Biscayne Boulevard, has agreed to the modified design
standards proposed by the City, including reducing the travel lanes from three to two in each
direction between the limits of Northeast 37th Street and Northeast 54th Street, and reducing the
lane width reduction from 10.5 feet to 10.0 feet between the limits of Northeast 67th Street to
Northeast 87th Street, Miami, Florida, in accordance with the intent of the Urban Streets Policy
TR-1.4.4;
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 adopted
by reference and incorporated as if fully set forth in this Section.
Section 2. The administration's request to FDOT that the travel lanes be reduced from three to
two lanes in each direction between the limits of Northeast 37th Street and Northeast 54th Street,
Miami, Florida, and that the lane width be reduced from 10.5 feet to 10.0 feet between the limits of
Northeast 67th Street to Northeast 87th Street, Miami, Florida, in accordance with the Urban
Streets Policy TR-1.4.4, is approved.
Section 3. This Resolution shall become effective immediately upon its adoption and signature
of the Mayor. [1]
City of Miami
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Footnotes:
{1} If the Mayor does not sign this Resolution, it shall become effective at the end of ten calendar
days from the date it was passed and adopted. If the Mayor vetoes this Resolution, it shall
become effective immediately upon override of the veto by the City Commission.
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