R-0818-87 RESOLUTION NO. ® 818-87
RESOLUTION REQUESTING DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION,
STATE OF FLORIDA, IN COOPERATION WITH METROPOLITAN
DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA, TO INSTALL AN ELECTRIC TRAFFIC
CONTROL SIGNAL ON U.S. HIGHWAY NO. 1 FOR THE PURPOSE
OF RELIEVING THE TRAFFIC BURDEN THEREON AT OR NEAR
THE VICINITY OF THE MIAMI SHORES COUNTRY CLUB, MIAMI
SHORES VILLAGE, FLORIDA.
WHEREAS, the continued increase of vehicular traffic on
U. S. Highway No. 1 in the vicinity of the Miami Shores Country
Club, at the intersection of N. E. 100th Street and said Highway,
has created such congestion that vehicles entering and departing
the Miami Shores Country Club onto U. S. No. 1 do so at great
peril to the occupants of said vehicles and the occupants of
the vehicles traveling north and southbound thereon, and
WHEREAS, the maintenance of said highway and the regulation
of traffic thereon lies within the domain of the Department of
Transportation of the State of Florida and the Signals and
Signs Division of the Department of Public Works, Metropolitan
Dade County, Florida, and
WHEREAS, the Miami Shores Village Council has determined
that there is a great need for the establishment of an automatic
traffic control signal on U. S. Highway No. 1 designed to regulate
the orderly entry of motor vehicles upon U. S. Highway No. 1
from adjoining areas in the vicinity of the Miami Shores Country
Club, as aforesaid,
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Miami Shores Village
Council does hereby request that the Department of Transportation,
State of Florida, and the appropriate department of Metropolitan
Dade County, Florida, make an appropriate study of the motor
vehicle traffic burden on U. S. Highway No. 1 in the vicinity
of its intersection with N. E. 100th Street, and that an auto-
matic traffic control signal be established in said area in a
manner designed to reduce the hazards to vehicular traffic in
said vicinity, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that a copy of this Resolution
be provided to the Department of Transportation, State of
Florida, and to Metropolitan Dade County, Florida, and any
other appropriate governmental authority.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 7th day of July , 1987.
SP2R0 CANTON,
ATTEST:
LELLY JOHNSON, Village Manager
BY .? C'f ice" .2_*(vLi 'Z i ✓
Deputy Village Clerk
PREPARED BY WILLIAM F. FANN, JR. ,
Village Attorney
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