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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 Dixie Highway/21st Avenue corridor, from Sheridan Street south to the County Line as a high priority corridor. The implementation of a Dixie Highway/21st Avenue complete street project is a high priority in the Coastal Link Station Area Master Plan, partially funded by the South Florida Regional Transportation Authority and completed by the Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council.
Kimley Horn and Associates, Inc. is performing a lane elimination study for the corridor; in a shared effort between the City and CRA as required to submit an application with the Broward County Engineering Division and ultimately leading to approval by the Broward Board of County Commissioners.
To place the project in the five year work plan requires the approval of the City of Hollywood Commission and the Broward Board of County Commissioners; including their approval to implement a lane reduction or road diet. The City of Hollywood may be responsible to install or fund all landscaping and maintain any decorative light fixtures, colored sidewalks or pavers installed as part of the project.
Staff has included in the back-up, existing and preliminary proposed cross-sections of the referenced Dixie Highway/21st Avenue Complete Streets concepts from Pembroke Road to Sheridan Street project for reference.
Recommended for inclusion on the agenda by:
Luis A. Lopez, PE, City Engineer
Shiv Newaldass, Director, Development Services
Gus Zambrano, AICP, Assistant City Manager/Sustainable Development