Resolution 019-1989
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RESOLUTION NO. 019 -1989
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~u.~<'--RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE LEGISLATURE OF
L!liB: STATE OF FLORIDA TO FUND THROUGH AN
.~ROPRIATE STATE AGENCY AU. S. 1 CORRIDOR
:;~~UDY FROM FLORIDA CITY TO KEY WEST.
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WHEREAS, the resident Monroe County Keys population growth
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rate has averaged 2.8% in the past 18 years while the growth rate
for U.S. 1 traffic volume is approximately 4.6 times the growth
in population indicating that the vast majority of the County's
Keys traffic problems originate outside the Keys; and
WHEREAS, the increasing use of state and federal land in the
Keys portion of Monroe County for recreation purposes plus the
increasing use of the Keys by the growing population of metro-
politan South Florida will continue to place disproportionate
burdens on the County's ability to provide reasonable levels of
service on the major roads in the Keys; and
WHEREAS, nearly two-thirds of U.S. 1 from Florida City to
Key West is at level of service "D" during critical periods of
the day and, at times, the entire highway is closed for bridge
repairs; and
WHEREAS, major improvements in the capacity of U.S. 1 are
needed soon if Monroe County is not to face an economically
devastating moratorium imposed by the concurrency rule of Chapter
163, Laws of Florida; and
WHEREAS, much of U.S. 1 is presently inadequate to function
as a hurricane evacuation route; and
WHEREAS, the issues described required coordinated analysis
and action by agencies having jurisdiction over U.S. 1 so that
there will be a focus on the relationships between land use and
transportation improvements in the entire 128 mile long corridor
from Florida City to Key West rather than analysis and action on
a project by project basis; and
WHEREAS, such a corridor analysis could take into account
the geography and special environmental sensitivity of the Keys,
the external source of the traffic impacts in the Keys, the
coordination - on a multiagency scale - of the most cost effec-
tive future expenditure of required public funding, and the
identification of alternative transportation methods to serve
visitor populations; and
WHEREAS, the completion of the sophisticated corridor
analysis contemplated will particularly require innovative
commitments on the part of state and regional agencies and Monroe
County; and
WHEREAS, additional federal and state funding will be
required for incorporation in Florida Department of Transpor-
tation's five year program; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF
MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA, as follows:
Section 1. The Legislature is hereby requested to create
and fund a new entity, "The Florida Keys Intergovernmental
Transportation Task Force," to prepare a U.S. 1 corridor analysis
work program and manage the analysis. The Task Force should have
an existence consistent with the time period necessary to com-
plete the analysis.
Section 2. The Legislature is requested to require that
the Task Force, those state agencies designated by the Legisla-
ture, and Monroe County select a consultant team to complete the
planning, engineering, economic and institutional studies that
are parts of the analysis.
Section 3. The Legislature is requested to require that,
as the recommendations of the corridor study become available,
the Florida Department of Transportation incorporate any iden-
tified right-of-way acquisitions, final designs and construction
projects in the Department's annual five year plan update.
Section 4. The Clerk of the Board is hereby directed to
forward a certified copy of this Resolution to the Honorable
Larry Plummer Senator, and the Honorable Ron Saunders
Representative.
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PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of County Commissioners of
Monroe County, Florida, at a regular meeting of said Board held
on the 3rd day of January, A.D., 1989.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA
By
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Mayor a1rman
(SEAL)
Attest: DANNY L. KOLHAGE. Clerk
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