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COMMISSION MEMORANDUM |
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| | | | | | | | | TO: | Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Commission | | | FROM: | Vice-Mayor Ricky Arriola | | | DATE: | July 17, 2019 | | | |
| | SUBJECT: | REFERRAL TO THE FINANCE AND CITYWIDE PROJECTS COMMITTEE TO DISCUSS IMPLEMENTING TACTICAL URBANISM PROJECTS THROUGHOUT THE CITY. |
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| | | | | | | | ANALYSIS
| Streetplans Collaborative is an urban design firm that helped the City of Miami Beach produce its Bicycle Pedestrian Master Plan. In the attached letter, Streetplans recommends for the City to consider the establishment of a Quick Build program that will lean on the tenets of tactical urbanism. Tactical urbanism addresses urban challenges with low-risk and low-cost treatments that have a high likelihood to yield a good return on investment.
An example of a tactical urbanism treatment is taking an underutilized surface parking lot and transforming it into a community gathering place; similar to what the City did at Rue Vendome. One idea that the Miami Beach Senior High School PTSA approached my office about is addressing a dangerous intersection by painting an artistic three-dimensional crosswalk that is not only pleasantly eye-catching, but also has the effect of reducing the speed of approaching vehicles. Many of these tactics require very little expertise to build, so it is something the entire community can take part in creating.
I ask that the Finance and Citywide Projects Committee discuss the establishment of a Quick Build program and that it consider one of the first treatments to be the addition of an artistic crosswalk and/or sidewalk by Miami Beach Senior High School. |
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Vice-Mayor Ricky Arriola |
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