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Res No 032-11-13346RESOLUTION NO. 32-11-13346 A Resolution of the Mayor and City Commission of the City of South Miami, Florida approving the Sustainable South Miami Research Grant Pre - Application; providing for an effective date. WHEREAS, the City Commission adopted Ordinance No. 26 -07 -1927 on September 4, 2007 creating the Green Task Force; and WHEREAS, the City Commission adopted Resolution No. 23 -09 -12832 on February 3, 2009 committing to a Carbon Neutral Initiative, which included a Carbon Neutral Initiative Work Plan; and WHEREAS, Florida International University (FIU) has prepared at draft Pre - Application for submittal to U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for Sustainable Community research and wishes to use South Miami as a site and template for such research; and WHEREAS, HUD has agreed to pursue a Sustainable Communities initiative pursuant to its agreement with the U.S. Department of Transportation and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that spells out what Sustainable Communities activities will be undertaken (see: http : / /www.epa.gov /smartgrowth /pdf/ dot- hud -epa- partnership- agreement.pdD; and WHEREAS, the City Commission wishes to support the Pre - Application and if FIU is shortlisted will want to review the full application with FIU before it is filed with HUD in order to consider supporting that full application. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF SOUTH MIAMI, FLORIDA: Section 1. That the attached draft Pre - Application (dated January 28, 2011) has the full support of the City of South Miami and the City Manager is instructed to cooperate in further drafts of the Pre - application consistent with the current draft and any development of a full application for such research grant funds should FIU be shortlisted to submit a full application and he is further instructed cooperate with FIU and bring back to the City Commission information regarding the status of this grant as it becomes available insofar as funds, voluntary efforts or other resources become available. Section 2. The City Commission will review the full application of the proposed research funds when it becomes available. Section 3. This resolution shall be effective immediately upon being adopted. PASSED AND ADOPTED this 1 St, day of February, 2011. ATTEST: AP(P�ROVE' /D: ccz✓ �2F,� ►� w IT CLERK —MAYO Pg. 2 of Res. Nod 32 -11 -13346 COMMISSION VOTE: 5 -0 Mayor Stoddard: yea Vice Mayor Newman: Yea Commissioner Palmer: Yea READ AND APPROVED AS TO FORM Commissioner Beasley: Yea AND SU CIENCY: Commissioner Harris: Yea CITY ATTORNEY WAMy Documents\resolutions \Resolution Sustainable SM Researe hGrant PreApplciation.doe Pre - Application for HUD NOPI for Fiscal Year 2010 Docket Number: FR- 5415 -N- 24/01282011 Towards A Sustainable South Miami in Miami -Dade County, Florida Transformation Initiative: Sustainable Communities Research and Grant Program Much has been written and much is known regarding transit oriented developments (TODs). FIU proposes to undertake an original investigation of transit oriented development (TOD) implementation strategies and develop a case study design for the City of South Miami. This initiative will advance the current body of knowledge on TOD development in several ways: 1. Through development of a phasing approach that allows TOD improvements to begin with small improvements and to expand improvements over time through a system of positive reinforcements; 2. Through an examination of how public space can be created to serve multiple purposes throughout the day that reinforce conditions that support equitable economic development, urban mobility, and the arts; 3. Through the formulation of a partnership between FIU, The City of South Miami, and local professionals that supports job growth, stability or growth in residential and commercial property values over the long term; 4. Through the expansion of partnerships and collaborations between FIU and University of Miami to provide enhanced educational, park, street/infrastructure, and housing opportunities for the neighborhoods and residents of South Miami and students at the University of Miami. A focus will be on properties and programs within the South Miami Community Redevelopment Agency area (i.e., affordable housing purchase assistance; business start -up assistance; housing rehabilitation; annual scholarship award; business fagade rehabilitation; youth job training, and other programs; ). The City of South Miami is located in Miami -Dade County, Florida. Its total area is 2.4 square miles of mostly suburban developed land with a downtown area that is bifurcated by the busy US 1 corridor. US 1 at this location is congested with traffic much of the day and results in cleaving the City in two. A Metrorail line with elevated track follows the US I corridor through the City of South Miami and participates in further bifurcation of the city fabric. However, a Metrorail station exists at US 1 and Sunset Drive and represents an important transportation and 1 Pre - Application for HUD NOPI for Fiscal Year 2010 Docket Number: FR-5415-N-24/01282011 civic node that can be used as a nucleus for a new TOD project that can re -unify the extant split condition. . The medium income for South Miami is $42,488, the medium age is 37.488, and families (non - single residents) make up 60.3% of the population. South Miami has over 10,000 residents and 40% are Caucasian, 34% are Latino, and 25% are of African decent, and 1.4% are of Asian decent. In many respects, South Miami is a very typical community in Miami -Dade County and they wish to maintain their very comfortable life style. The research is to. examine how South Miami could do that and improve upon their sustainable community characteristics over the next 100 years. Miami over the next 100 years will experience a number of fundamental and transformative changes to its physical character as it responds to the need to mitigate climate change, adapt to raising sea levels and other climate change impacts, and as it implements programs for the creation of more reliable and greener transportation systems, creates equitable and affordable housing and a network of public civic spaces. The results of this research will help the City to develop the roadmap for navigating these transformations and provide HUD with original and innovative sustainable communities strategies and methodologies that will have application elsewhere and will result in contri butions to existing scholarship on sustainability. This roadmap will support a city plan that ensures the long -term preservation of the unique community character of South Miami, provides better access to affordable housing, more transportation options, and lower transportation costs while simultaneously protecting the environment, promoting equitable development, and helping to address the challenges of climate change. Research arising from this effort will provide support and new ways to: invest in healthy, safe, and walkable neighborhoods; leverage federal investments (coordinate efforts with the HUD funded 2050 Southeast Florida Regional Plan for Sustainable Development efforts and 2 Pre - Application for HUD NOPI for Fiscal Year 2010 Docket Number: FR- 5415 -N- 24/01282011 .similar Sustainable Communities and related initiatives and research such as FlU led ULTRA EX Project funded by NSF); and, support existing communities (build sustainable, small, mixed - use, mixed - income urban centers that increase transit use, produce locally generated renewable energy, water, food, and other necessities of like, affordable housing, economic competitiveness, and reliable, cost efficient, multimodal zero - carbon systems of transport). Much of the work has been previously theorized and new efforts to apply scientific rigor to investigate these innovative urban forms would be useful (see Growing the New American Economy at: htta: / /dl.dropbox. cam /u /11437843 /GTNP) .Compiete.ndf). Deliverables The funding request is $500,000 spent over a two year term. The deliverables are as follows: 1) Use and development of new Models of Urban Design and Transportation Analysis - Through meta - disciplinary research and through the development of design principles applied to TODs in hot & humid cities that over the next 100 years will be impacted by climate change, this project will combine ecological, architectural, landscape architectural, transportation, infrastructure and urban design solutions to address emerging urban challenges in South Miami. Phase one of our research will map the economic, political, and cultural processes that have shaped the City of South Miami and will continue to do so. Our work will address the new challenges and opportunities to: i) create better pedestrian- oriented shared public spaces and corridors and superior low cost and reliable transportation choices that have thoughtfully conceived intermodal connectivity; 2) improve meta - environmental planning and infrastructure evolution: and; expand upon the effective strategies for resisting urban sprawl, mitigating and adapting to likely sea level rise impacts, integrating into urban designs various innovative energy and water 3 Pre - Application for HUD NOPI for Fiscal Year 2010 Docket Number: FR-5415-N-24/01282011 conservation technologies and the production of locally generated renewable energy, fresh water supplies, food, and other necessities of life, and the development of a very high quality and walkable and vital urban downtown center, 2) Applied Research in Urbanism - A fundamental aspect of the South Miami TOD Case Study Research Project will be its ability to apply faculty expertise from various disciplines within the environmental design professions at FIU to South Miami, but always with broad applicability to other cities in South Florida. With expertise in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Interior Design, Community and Regional Planning, Preservation, Urban Design and Sustainable Design the team brings diverse range of specialization to the creation of a case study urban design proposal for a cutting TOD in South Miami. The South Miami TOD Case Study Research Project will develop tactics and methodologies for South Miami's sustainable urban future and be grounded in research. It will involve an integrated approach to the urban environment that will include: the creation of new patterns of mixed use sustainable urban living, the safeguarding of South Miami's landscape ecology systems in order to better provide an enhanced quality of life, the implementation of diverse and sustainable transit and infrastructure systems that are better connected to regional modes of transportation and provide for necessary utility services. Additionally, the research and applied design project will ensure the safeguarding of an appropriate mixture of programs and economies necessary to support a range of lifestyle choices in South Miami. The design phase will focus on the development of a TOD model for tropical and sub tropical climates and new urban morphologies that create systems of open space for civic activity, recreation and health, as well as allow for infrastructural improvements that enhance 4 Pre - Application for HUD NOPI for Fiscal Year 2010 Docket Number: FR- 5415 -N- 24/01282011 connectivity within the urban environment. Methodology: Priority will be placed on analysis and design strategies for the creation of a cutting edge case study TOD to be proposed around the existing Metrorail stop at US 1 and Sunset. The South Miami TOD Case Study Research Project will deploy the following analysis and design tactics: Transit Oriented Development Planning for the Tropical and Subtropical Contexts: The quality of life in our region is increasingly determined by its transportation systems. Pressing beyond the monoculture of the automobile, The South Miami TOD Case Study Project will develop intermodal transit planning to advance new cultures of mobility, urbanism, commerce, and environmentalism. Sustainable Communities Design for the Tropical and Subtropical Contexts: Since humankind moves more material around than atmospheric, geological, and oceanic forces combined, land use and transportation are pressing sustainability issues. Each city pattern type generates distinct planning and economic opportunities. Developing the right patterns for the tropical and subtropical contexts over a 100 year term of expected sea level rise is critically important and central to this study. Sustainable Street & Road Ecologies: Roads have become the single largest classification of public space shaping our South Florida communities. The creation of Street & Road Ecology Matrices for South Miami will present an index of the generic components found in the transportation corridors and facilitate opportunities for creating new types and new combinations of existing types to achieve context- sensitive street and road design. Tropical Aqua - Urbanism: Healthy bays, canals, streams and a nourishing everglades ecosystem deliver critical ecological services whose value can no longer remain outside human 5 Pre - Application for HUD NOPI for Fiscal Year 2010 Docket Number: FR- 5415 -N- 24/01282011 systems of development. Watershed Urbanism for South Miami will be central to both the analysis and design phases of this project. An ecologically -based development model for integrating land development with fluvial, riparian and tidal systems will be developed with an overlay of various sea level rise assumptions. Low Impact Tropical Urbanism: The first hour of urban storm water runoff in South Miami has a pollution index far greater than that of raw sewage. Low impact urbanism will substitute an ecological storm water management system for costly civil engineering technologies by replacing pipes with parks. Deliverables: Analysis: South Miami's existing and historical conditions will be catalogued and analyzed; historical development over time, historical and current land use patterns, historical and current ownership patterns, demographic analysis, traffic pattern analysis and formal analysis will be completed. South Miami TOD Case Study Design: Using the data and analysis gathered in the first phase, a case study urban design proposal will be developed using building information modeling systems (BIM). The design proposal will follow and be informed by the analysis phase. The case study design will propose how to integrate better transportation choices for South Miami, how to create more diverse typologies of housing, how to enhance the economic and cultural vibrancy of South Miami through a TOD, how the citizens of South Miami can have access to beauty, in the form of good design and nature, how the citizens of South Miami can meet their daily needs without owning a car and finally how the citizens of South Miami can engage in a more robust public life. 0 HUD, DOT and EPA Partnership: Sustainable Communities June 16, 2009 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan, U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Ray LaHood, and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson today announced a new partnership to help American families in all communities — rural, suburban and urban — gain better access to affordable housing, more transportation options, and lower transportation costs. Earlier this year, HUD and DOT announced an unprecedented agreement to implement joint housing and transportation initiatives. With EPA joining the partnership, the three agencies will work together to ensure that these housing and transportation goals are met while simultaneously protecting the environment, promoting equitable development, and helping to address the challenges of climate change. DOT, HUD and EPA have created a high -level interagency partnership to better coordinate federal transportation, environmental protection, and housing investments and to identify strategies that: • Provide more transportation choices. Develop safe, reliable and economical transportation choices in order to decrease household transportation costs, reduce our nations' dependence on foreign oil, improve air quality, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and promote public health. • Promote equitable, affordable housing. Expand location and energy efficient housing choices for people of all ages, incomes, races and ethnicities to increase mobility and lower the combined cost of housing and transportation. • Increase economic competitiveness. Enhance economic competitiveness through reliable and timely access to employment centers, educational opportunities, services and other basic needs by workers as well as expanded business access to markets. • Support existing communities. Target federal funding toward existing communities to increase community revitalization, the efficiency of public works investments and safeguard rural landscapes. • Leverage federal investment. Cooperatively align federal policies and funding to remove barriers, leverage funding and increase the accountability and effectiveness of all levels of government to plan for future growth. • Value communities and neighborhoods. Enhance the unique characteristics of all communities by investing in healthy, safe and walkable neighborhoods— rural, urban or suburban. The HUD/DOT/EPA partnership wilt: Enhance integrated planning and investment. The partnership will seek to integrate housing, transportation, water infrastructure, and land use planning and investment. HUD, EPA and DOT propose to make planning grants available to metropolitan areas, and create mechanisms to ensure those plans are carried through to localities. • Provide a vision for sustainable growth. This effort will help communities set a vision for sustainable growth and apply federal transportation, water infrastructure, housing and other investments in an integrated approach that reduces the nation's dependence on foreign oil, reduces greenhouse gas emissions, protects America's air and water and improves quality of life. Coordinating planning efforts in housing, transportation, air quality and water -- including planning cycles, processes and geographic coverage — will make more effective use of federal housing and transportation dollars. Redefine housing affordability and make it transparent. The partnership will develop federal housing affordability measures that include housing and transportation costs and other expenses that are affected by location choices. Although transportation costs now approach or exceed housing costs for many working families, federal definitions of housing affordability do not recognize the strain of soaring transportation costs on homeowners and renters who live in areas isolated from work opportunities and transportation choices. The partnership will redefine affordability to reflect those costs, improve the consideration of the cost of utilities and provide consumers with enhanced information to help them make housing decisions. Redevelop underutilized sites. The partnership will work to achieve critical environmental justice goals and other environmental goals by targeting development to locations that already have infrastructure and offer transportation choices. Environmental justice is a particular concern in areas where disinvestment and past industrial use caused pollution and a legacy of contaminated or abandoned sites. This partnership will help return such sites to productive use. Develop livability measures and tools. The partnership will research, evaluate and recommend measures that indicate the livability of communities, neighborhoods and metropolitan areas. These measures could be adopted in subsequent integrated planning efforts to benchmark existing conditions, measure progress toward achieving community visions and increase accountability. HUD, DOT and EPA will help communities attain livability goals by developing and providing analytical tools to evaluate progress as well as state and local technical assistance programs to remove barriers to coordinated housing, transportation and environmental protection Investments. The partnership will develop incentives to encourage communities to implement, use and publicize the measures. Align HUD, DOT and EPA programs. HUD, DOT and EPA will work to assure that their programs maximize the benefits of their combined investments in our communities for livability, affordability, environmental excellence, and the promotion of green jobs of the future. HUD and DOT will work together to identify opportunities to better coordinate their programs and encourage location efficiency in housing and transportation choices. HUD, DOT and EPA will also share information and review processes to facilitate better - informed decisions and coordinate investments. • Undertake joint research, data collection and outreach. HUD, DOT and EPA will engage in joint research, data collection, and outreach efforts with stakeholders, to develop information platforms and analytic tools to track housing and transportation options and expenditures, establish standardized and efficient performance measures, and identify best practices.