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File #: R-2019-173    Version: 1 Name: Dixie Highway Complete Streets
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 5/30/2019 In control: Engineering Division
On agenda: 6/19/2019 Final action: 6/19/2019
Title: A Resolution Of The City Commission Of The City Of Hollywood, Florida, Supporting The Dixie Highway/21st Avenue Complete Streets Project And Endorsing The Florida Department Of Transportation's Delivery Of Certain Complete Streets Projects Identified In The Broward County Metropolitan Organization Complete Streets Master Plan As A High Priority Corridor In Order To Be Included In The Florida Department Of Transportation Five-Year Adopted Work Program.
Attachments: 1. Reso EN 19-079 .pdf, 2. 2014-08-05_Dixie-21st_Trafficways_Plan_Amend_revised.pdf, 3. BIS 19187.pdf
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A Resolution Of The City Commission Of The City Of Hollywood, Florida, Supporting The Dixie Highway/21st Avenue Complete Streets Project And Endorsing The Florida Department Of Transportation's Delivery Of Certain Complete Streets Projects Identified In The Broward County Metropolitan Organization Complete Streets Master Plan As A High Priority Corridor In Order To Be Included In The Florida Department Of Transportation Five-Year Adopted Work Program.

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Staff Recommends: Approval of the Attached Resolution.


Explanation:
The City Commission supports the implementation of complete streets for safe travel and access by all users utilizing varying modes of transportation and to promote a safe, healthy, livable and sustainable community.

Dixie Highway/21st Avenue corridor is a Broward County public roadway, with final permit authority resting with Broward County and its agencies. The City Commission passed and adopted approved R-2014-082, recommending an amendment to the Broward County Trafficways Plan to add the "Context Sensitive Corridor" Designation to facilitate the implementation of Complete Streets Solutions. This was voted on August 28, 2014, by the Broward County Planning Council, Agenda Item PH7, approving an amendment to the Trafficways Plan assigning the "Context Sensitive Corridor" designation for Dixie Highway/21st Avenue from Sheridan Street to Pembroke Road.

Broward County designated the Dixie Highway/21st Avenue corridor, from Sheridan Street south to the County Line as a corridor to receive a bike lane from US1 in Dania Beach through Hollywood and Hallandale Beach City Limits south to County Line during the 2018 Penny for Transportation Referendum. The City of Hollywood, in its 2019 General Obligation Bond, included funding for landscaping along the Florida East Coast Railway corridor.

The Broward County Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) approved in February 14, 2019, the Complete Streets Master Plan, which designated the Di...

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