Resolution 475-2008
Comm. Sylvia Murphy
RESOLUTION NO. 475 -2008
A RESOLUTION OF THE MONROE COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS REQUESTING THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF
TRANSPORTATION REVISE THE FIVE YEAR WORK PROGRAM AS IT
PERTAINS TO MILLING AND RESURFACING OF US mGHWAY 1 FROM
MILE MARKER 93 TO 106 REDUCING THE PROPOSED NORTH BOUND
SHOUlDER TOTAL WIDTH TO NO MORE THAN FOUR (4) FEET OR
MATCHING THAT OF THE SOUTHBOUND PROPOSAL.
WHEREAS, at a regularly scheduled meeting on December 19, 2007 the Board of County
Commissioners (HOCC) approved the proposed Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) 5 year
work program with the exception of three projects (FDOT project numbers 419848-1-52-01,419859-1-
52-0 I and 419846-1-52-01) requiring that FDOT staff identifY the full scope of work for these three
projects and allowing the BOCC to consider future action concerning these proposed projects; and
WHEREAS, on March 12, 2008 FDOT provided additional project detail at a community
meeting held at the Key Largo Library describing the proposed milling and resurfacing of US 1 from
Mile Marker 93-97 (FDOT project number 419848-1-52-01), Mile Marker 99.7-103.1 (FDOT project
number 419859-1-52-01) and Mile Marker 103.2-106.6 (FDOT project number 419846-1-52-01)
including a northbound shoulder widening by six (6) additional feet to a total of 10 feet to comply with
specific recommendations of the 2001 Florida Keys Hurricane Evacuation Study; and
WHEREAS, the 2001 Florida Keys Hurricane Evacuation Study included the permanent
improvement alternative intended to provide increased capacity and clearance time, detailing eight (8)
permanent improvements to US 1 which would increase traffic capacity in the outbound lanes during an
evacuation, one of which is the development and construction of one additional northbound lane from
Mile Marker 90 through 106.3 as an inside center lane striped out on sections with no media break and
functioning as a left turn lane where a media break occurs; and
WHEREAS, Monroe County has been presented with no substantial data and analysis to
support the capacity and clearance time benefit of an extended shoulder as proposed, nor data and
analysis documenting the correlation of the additional center turning lane originally proposed in the
2001 Florida Keys Hurricane Evacuation Study to the capacity and clearance time benefit of the
proposed extended shoulder; and
WHEREAS, the BOCC has examined the three projects excepted from the previous approval
of the proposed FDOT five year work program, and in accordance with the vision of the communities
of Key Largo and Tavernier, cannot support the inclusion of expanded shoulders for the northbound
lanes in the proposed milling and resurfacing as detailed in these three projects listed above; and
WHEREAS, the need for an additional lane or shoulder is based on the incorrect assumption
that during an evacuation, traffic lights would periodically stop traffic rather than operate in the flashing
yellow mode;
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA:
Section 1: The BOCC requests that the Florida Department of Transportation revise the five year work
program as it !pertains to milling and resurfacing of US Highway I from Mile Marker 93 to 106
reducing the proposed north bound shoulder total width to no more than four (4) feet or matching that
of the southbound proposal as detailed in FDOT project numbers 419848-1-52-01 (Mile Marker 93-
97),419859-1-52-01 (Mile Marker 99.7-103.1) and 419846-1-52-01 (Mile Marker 103.2-106.6).
Section 2: Thcl BOCC requests that the Florida Department of Transportation render to the Mayor of
Monroe County any and all data and analysis which supports the equal or greater roadway capacity
increase of a northbound extended shoulder of 10 feet from Mile Marker 93 through 106.6 as compared
to the previously prescribed additional lane in the center of US 1 as detailed in the 200 1 Florida Keys
Hurricane Evacuation Study.
Section 3: The BOCC requests that the Florida Department of Transportation provide the Monroe
County Board of County Commissioners with a detailed report of work to date, proposed work and a
planned completion model to implement the prescribed improvements within the 200 1 Florida Keys
Hurricane Evacuation Study Permanent Improvement Alternative as found in chapter 5.5 of the study.
PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the Board of County Commissioners of
Monroe County, Florida, held on the 19th day of November, 2008.
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Mayor Pro Tern Sylvia 1. Murphy
Commissioner Mario Di Gennaro
Commissioner Kim Wigington
Commissioner Heather Carruthers
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BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
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ATTEST: DANNY L. KOLHAGE, CLERK
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MONROE; COUNTY ATTORNEY
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CHRISTINE M. LI BERT-BARROWS
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