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The Greenways subcommittee updated the Greenway development matrix.  Brenda Marshall, Trust for Public Land (TPL) stated the consultant team contracted by TPL was completing the schematic design and would subsequently be contracted to create construction documents.  Through the construction drawing process the Greenways subcommittee noted the importance of coordinating all stormwater retrofitting projects with the Greenway’s development.  The Greenways subcommittee will contact the Department of Environmental Resource Management and the City of Miami Public Works Department to coordinate these major projects.  Marshall accepted the Greenways subcommittee for the TPL’s consultants to present the completed schematic designs during the MRC’s October 7, 2002 meeting.

The Greenways subcommittee discussed the status of the Greenway at the Miami Circle site.  Brett Bateau reported the MRC was awarded a $100,000 Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) Recreational Trails Program (RTP) grant to build the Greenway at the Miami Circle site.  The subcommittee authorized MRC staff to request the awarded FDEP RTP grant’s required $25,000 match be allocated from the approved $2,000,000 Greenways line item in the Homeland Security and Neighborhood Defense Bond Issue. The sites sea wall will be repaired with funding from the Florida Department of State.  The Greenway subcommittee believes a small, historic in design fence between the Greenway and the Circle will provide security to the site, while maintaining public accessibility to the Greenway.

The Greenway subcommittee discussed the City Commission’s directive to use funding from the “Gateways” line item of the approved Homeland Defense and Neighborhood Improvement Bond Issue to create a trailhead gateway on the Greenway adjacent to the One Miami project.

Above ground utilities are a major obstruction to the Greenway.  The Greenways subcommittee discussed the fact that since the 1950’s subdivisions have required all utilities to be underground.  The MRC Greenways subcommittee will work with TPL to have Florida Power and Light place all utilities underground in future developments adjacent to the Greenway.  

Marshall stated she would track the progress of the County’s approved Safe Neighborhood Park Bond projects within the River corridor.  Furthermore Marshall feels the MRC and TPL should identify another riverfront park site to apply for Florida Communities Trust acquisition funding.

The next MRC Greenways subcommittee meeting was scheduled for October 14, 2002, 9 am, Miami River Inn, 118 South River Drive.

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