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A Resolution Of The City Commission Of The City Of Hollywood, Florida, Approving The Attached Design Development Plans For The Hollywood Boulevard Roadway Corridor Between Dixie Highway And City Hall Circle, And Authorizing The Appropriate City Officials To Submit Design Development Plans To Broward Metropolitan Planning Organization (Broward MPO) And Florida Department Of Transportation (FDOT) To Begin Final Construction Drawings And Project Implementation Through The $6,800,000.00 Funding From Broward MPO; And Providing Future Funding Subject to the Adoption and Approval of The FY 2016 - FY 2020 Capital Improvement Program In The Estimated Amount Of $600,000.00 To Implement The Landscape, Irrigation, And Site Furnishing Elements Of The Project.
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Staff Recommends: Approval of Resolution
Explanation:
The Broward Metropolitan Planning Organization (Broward MPO) has funding available from Federal and State sources to promote their "Complete Streets" program. The City was recently awarded approximately $6,800,000.00 within the Broward MPO's Transportation Improvement Program to fund a Complete Streets project on Hollywood Boulevard between City Hall Circle and Dixie Highway, and the Department of Public Works desires to move forward with the implementation of "Complete Streets" conceptual plans shown herein as Exhibit "A".
The Department of Public Works exercised due diligence in community outreach through two open community presentations and individual outreach to building owners and/or business owners directly along the aforementioned segment of the corridor, and received positive support for the conceptual design. MPO's funding is earmarked for the design and construction of all the hardscape elements to include the paving, grading, drainage, lighting, signalization, walkways, signage and pavement marking elements of the project.
Project elements that are not funded by the Broward MPO include landscaping, irrigation and site furnis...
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