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A Resolution Of The Hollywood, Florida Community Redevelopment Agency ("CRA"), Approving And Authorizing The Appropriate CRA Officials To Execute An Interlocal Agreement With The City Of Hollywood ("City") In An Amount Up To $76,425.00 For An Authorization To Proceed To Be Issued By The City To Bermello Ajamil & Partners, Inc. To Provide Landscape Design Services For The State Road 5/US-1 From Pembroke Road To Sheridan Street Complete Streets Project.
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Staff Recommends: Approval of the attached Resolution.
Explanation:
The Broward County Metropolitan Planning Organization ("MPO"), the Florida Department of Transportation ("FDOT"), the City and the Community Redevelopment Agency ("CRA") are committed to improving alternative modes of transportation and support Complete Streets corridors providing safe choices to pedestrians, cyclists, transit riders and motorists.
The City, together with the CRA, desires certain additional beautification and landscaping improvements to State road 5/us-1 ("project") to enhance the corridor aesthetic and improve the pedestrian experience.
FDOT eliminated the approved designation for Transportation Design for Livable Communities, which requires a variance request for FDOT consideration to complete the trees and landscaping scope as originally envisioned.
Per City Commission Resolution No. R-2023-237, Bermello Ajamil & Partners, Inc. ("Bermello") provided landscape conceptual design services to develop plans for proposed trees and landscape locations to support the FDOT variance request for the project.
On May 2, 2025, the City submitted a variance request to FDOT to reduce the design speed to match the posted speed along a portion of the project from State Road 824 to Young Circle, enhancing pedestrian activity and safety, and on January 9, 2026, FDOT provided the City the approval to procced.
The Department of Design and Construction Management (DCM) and the C...
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