and the CRA meeting will commence. Ms. Beggarrow, will you please call the roll? Commissioner Anderson? Here. Commissioner Andreu? Here. Commissioner Fajan? Here. Commissioner Horland? Here. Commissioner Reinstein? Here. Commissioner Sortle? Here. Assistant City Attorney Morgan? Here. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Beggarrow. The CRA consent agenda consists of items 1 through 4 this evening. Does any member of the commission wish to pull an item? One. Okay. One. And two members of the public would like to speak on one also. Do I have a motion for items 2 through 4? Motion to approve items 2 through 4. Do we have a second? Second. Okay. Thank you very much. Ms. Beggarrow, please call the roll. If you want to give it to Fajan or Anderson, I think it's whatever one. Okay. I can give it to Eric. Your choice. All right. Commissioner Anderson? Yes. Commissioner Andreu? Yes. Commissioner Fajan? Yes. Commissioner Horland? Yes. Commissioner Reinstein? Yes. Commissioner Sortle? Yes. Thank you. All right. Item number one is North State Road 7 and Sunrise Boulevard Corridor Enhancement Phase 2, which is the Landscape Architectural Services. We have Ms. Shailana, our engineer, which will be coming up and whom will be coming up. Council Member Reinstein, you're up first. Yeah. Thank you. So this really isn't so much a question for engineering. And maybe it's more towards administration or maybe just it will come out as a comment. And that is that, you know, I've made it a point that every time we've talked about some type of road servicing, enhancement, development, anything concerning our roads, that we were sure to also discuss protected bike lanes. And, you know, this is more about landscape architectural services. However, my concern in reading the backup, and there was a lot, and so if there was more in there that I missed, I will happily hear from anybody who wants to add to it, is that, you know, my concern is that when we're spending these funds on landscaping and we are making sure that the corridors enhance efficiently for the landscaping and that if we're not taking into consideration and we're not pushing for an enhancement of the bike lanes, then we'll miss an opportunity or we won't. When we get the next opportunity, it will be, well, now there's no longer enough space for it because we focused on the landscaping or we focused on some other enhancements. And so, you know, I welcome if there's any response to that in terms of ability to look into more enhancements in terms of the protected bike lanes. I've spoken about that I would love to see that the entire city of Plantation has a protected bike lane that travels around the boundaries of our city. I mean, that would be something that I would love to see, and I think it was actually Ms. Knapp who had provided some archival information that I think I brought before the council once before. It was a discussion in the 80s talking about the needs for more protected bike lanes, and obviously we're a long way from then, yet the discussion still takes place. So, please. Good evening. Samira Shalan, the city engineer of City of Plantation. We discussed this comment previously when I presented to your attention the enhancement study. The answer to that is the bike lane is part of the Broward Safety Action Plan, where the MPO is currently working with the municipalities and the other jurisdictions. 441 is owned and maintained by FDUT, by Florida Department of Transportation, and the city is in continuous coordination of any collaborative effort with the MPO or the FDUT. The intention of this project is not affecting the profile of the roadways in any shape or form. The scope of services is included in the envelope of the medians and the current landscape easement owned by the CRA. So, that's what we concentrated on the intention of this project. But there is another project funded or proposed by the Metropolitan Planning Organization, which is the Broward Safety Act, which have some bikeway component. And as the MPO will progress that project, I will assure you that your comments will be included, and we will push for the city's vision of protected bike lane as opportunities arise. That's perfect. I appreciate, then, you coming up and making those statements on the record. And I know you've been very supportive every time that it's been raised regarding the need for protected bike lanes. I, you know, my concern is always the, again, essentially unintended consequences, right, is that we vote on something today, but it affects something else tomorrow that we didn't plan for. And while we've talked about quite a bit the work of the MPO, and we've talked about other county programs that are focused on transportation and transportation corridors, but, you know, that being said is that, you know, sometimes we do one thing, they do their thing, and because we acted one way, it forces them to respond a different way. And so, in any event, I just want to thank you for that commitment. That makes me feel a little bit more comfortable. But, you know, my concern still is that more of the funds go towards the protected bike lanes than they would for landscaping or anything of that need. But I appreciate the work on this. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Reinstein. Councilmember Fadgen, had you wanted to speak on this item? No? Okay. Councilmember Andrea. Thank you, President Horland. I just was concerned about the signage, and would that come back to us at some point as you go further along? Because, of course, we just finished that branding kind of cycle that we went through, and I know in the backup documents we saw the disconnect between what is currently there. So, moving forward, will we see that first? The signage wasn't a fully developed part of the phase one. So, to your comment, I will take your comment to heart. And as you can see, with all the engineering projects, we have been publicly facing and bringing presentation to your attention and providing sometimes alternatives and selecting publicly the best alternatives. So, I will take that comment. There is part of the scope, a couple of public meetings. We will be presenting to the Gateway Board and to City Council on some of the elements of these projects. So, I will take that into consideration. Thank you. No problem. And if you could, it would be great to go to, I know we mentioned it earlier, some of the HOA meetings as well, so that the residents also have some buy-in. Definitely. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Andrea. Anyone else? All right, I have Mr. Conklin and Mr. Nguyen who wanted to speak on this item. Mr. Conklin, sir? Dennis Conklin, 4581 Northwest Sixth Court. Heavenly hosts protect you and all of your families. I was happy to see this, anything improvement in the Gateway 7 District, which overlaps by the CRA. I noticed that on the backup, if you look at this project area number two, it's basically the exit off of Sunrise Boulevard heading east onto State Road 7. And when they redid that, they did do a Texas U-turn to go back to the west on Sunrise Boulevard, but they took away the dedicated right turn on red light lane. And that really jams up Sunrise Boulevard. I don't have to tell you, Sunrise Boulevard is a mess. And the rest of it is basically the, I don't know what you call them, but they're the little outcroppings of concrete at the State Road 7 and Broward Boulevard intersections that are ahead of the traffic lanes. I don't know how safe those really are. I know it's probably to protect pedestrians, but if you've seen them, I think there's a lot more car accidents because they don't see them and they hit them and they run up and over them. So I think you might want to maybe have those removed. And this is about landscaping. And just wanted to let you know that the Plantation Gateway is spending $300, $400 bucks this time. You're going to approve it soon, this meeting, for water of the landscape. And I'll yield back. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Conklin. Mr. Nguyen? Good evening, Nguyen, 944 Northwest 92nd Terrace. These are off of prepared remarks, so I appreciate the comments that were shared by Councilmember Reinstein, by the city engineer, and also by the previous resident. So I apologize if I go slightly over, but I think it is still relevant in the broader picture. And that's that landscape improvements in the Gateway are obviously important and necessary. This is also, as was shared, long-term planning. So let's ensure it's most efficiently serving the city and the residents' interests. The Gateway Corridor already has a large number of pedestrian, bike, and transit users. And we should be ensuring that all planning enhances their experiences. And with enhanced transit service coming to this corridor and a repeatedly expressed desire, as was done by Councilmember Reinstein, to make bicycle connectivity more appealing, we need to be building for what we want to see it become in the future and not just what's there today. So let's consider, as 441 is an FDOT C4 context classification, and we can go into that at another time, it is allowed to have a design, not posted, speed between 25 and 45. The average speed on our roads is about 23 miles an hour, including waiting at lights. So we could keep travel time similar, but we do need to work with FDOT to enable the features suited for the chosen speed so it feels natural to drive it along the corridor. And additionally, following FDOT's recommendations for a C4, it may allow for trees closer to the roadway and sidewalks to be on the protected and shaded side. Again, I didn't see any protected bike lanes explicitly mentioned, and this should be non-negotiable. They should be added to any road projects we have in the city, as this can slowly create the comfortable, connected, and cohesive network that was shared earlier, incentivizing usage. To that point, and the idea of landscaping, places with lots of cars and asphalt can be uncomfortable. Not just the noise, but the heat. As an example, in Medellin, they took addressing urban heat effect to heart, planting 8,800 trees, 350,000 shrubs along 36 green corridors. And the result was that the average city temperatures dropped 2 degrees Celsius in 3 years. Some streets cooled by 5 degrees Celsius. This increased cycling by 34.6% and walking by 4. It also helped that they built 80 kilometers of new bike paths. Now, a personal story is that a month ago, when I was biking downtown and waiting to cross 441 at 5th, the man and two kids walked by, and I heard them mention that they needed to take two separate buses to get to where they were going. This involved a lengthy walk along and a wait on 441. So let's keep people like them who have that experience in mind when we plan this out. We want to make it look nicer for drivers, yes. And those not in cars, yes. And dream better during storms, yes. But it should primarily be to create a better and safer place for plantation residents to exist, move about, and for local businesses to thrive. And still nailed it. You nailed it. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Wen. Well done. Council Member Reinstein, final comment? Yeah, I'm actually interested. I thought I saw, Director Shailon, I thought you saw maybe shake your hand or shake your head or kind of comment or wanting to comment regarding the concrete structure jutting out on Broward and 441. Any comment as to the engineering benefit for that or whether it's necessary? This is a pedestrian improvement that FDUT Engineering Department had installed. It is a chronic problem. It is getting hit constantly, continuously. We have been receiving complaints. We have been coordinating with the district. The last I heard from them, they are doing a study to study what have been implemented to see the effectiveness of it. But, again, this is their roadways. And we bring it to their attention all the time as it brought to our attention. I knew you'd have some information on it. So thank you very much. We continuously, Council Member Fadgen called me several times about it. There was several Facebook posts about it. So I'm aware of it. I'm familiar with what's happening. And every time we receive the complaint, we send it to FDUT. Maybe the next, maybe the mayor and administration, maybe we need to elevate this complaint to a higher level in FDUT and kind of have a better resolution at this point. I think that might be a good idea. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Weinstein. Council Member Fadgen. Thank you, Council President. I've brought this up at NPO, requesting that they also put reflectors on the end spots and then more posts on there, which I think has been getting knocked over. But if you look at the end caps on University and Peters, there are reflectors on the curb at this. And I think that would make a difference. I'm aware of the problem. And I was turning left at 9, 30, 10 o'clock at night. It's very dark. So I think lines need to be improved. And then I think reflectors on the curbs would make a world of difference, particularly at night. So I've made that request. And I'll follow up at our next meeting on that. Yeah. And I think however we can escalate that with FDUT would be a good thing. Will do. Thank you, Director Shailon. Council Members, any further discussion on this item? Do we have a motion? Item 1. Motion approved. Do we have a second? Second. Okay. Ms. Spigaro, please call the roll. Commissioner Anderson. Yes. Commissioner Andreu. Yes. Commissioner Fajan. Yes. Commissioner Horland. Yes. Commissioner Reinstein. No. Commissioner Sortel. Yes. Thank you, Ms. Spigaro. Public request of the commissioners regarding the CRA. I've got Mr. Conklin and Ms. Tiffany Hudson. Mr. Conklin, would you like to come back up? Thank you. Dennis Conklin, 4581 Northwest 6th Court. I'm very happy to report. I'm anxiously awaiting the opening of new publics June the 4th. And congratulations to our CRA director. That part of town, east side of town, it was ideal prior to the taking for the widening of State Road 7. And it was so ideal that plantation annexed it into the city. So it's nice to see the results of a lot of work that's been done on this most recent CRA director's part. So, let's see. Oh, I noticed that the sidewalks on the way to Plantation Elementary School at the Landmark Towers have been ID'd for a fix because they get worse and worse, actually. And a number of the sidewalks, besides the intrusion of the roots, they're broken, a lot of the other sidewalks. So, I was wondering if anybody knew the grand opening for the car wash, the automatic car wash, or not. We don't know yet. Because I got faked out because I saw a couple cars in there at the vacuuming station. I go, yippee, you know. So, I'll yield back my time. We're hoping soon. Thank you, Mr. Conklin. Ms. Hudson, you wanted to speak on the LPRs in the CRA? Okay, you spoke, you wrote for the CRA. If you want to speak specifically on the CRA. Okay. So, I'll put you for the council meeting. Thank you. All right. Any other public comment for the CRA? With that, the CRA meeting is adjourned. It's 7.