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Citizen's Independent Transportation Trust passes resolution to maintain the UDB!

Recognizing the need to promote better transportation options in Miami-Dade County, and to ensure federal funding for transportation is not compromised by allowing sprawl beyond our UDB, the Citizen's Independent Transportation Trust recently agreed that Holding the Line is best for our community. Experts in the transportation field are joining the resounding opinion of County residents who are urging County Commissioners to promote a better future by holding the UDB!
Read the full resolution below:

RESOLUTION BY THE CITIZENS' INDEPENDENT TRANSPORTATION TRUST (CITT) RECOMMENDING THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS (BCC) MAINTAIN THE CURRENT URBAN DEVELOPMENT BOUNDARY (UDB) TO FACILITATE FUTURE AND PRESENT MASS TRANSIT PROJECTS IN THE EXISTING URBANIZED AREAS OF THE COUNTY AND PRESERVE MASS TRANSIT FEDERAL APPLICATIONS AND FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

WHEREAS, the County land planners have concluded that sufficient vacant land exists for development for the next 15 years; and

WHEREAS, current levels of residential housing inventories satisfy state
requirements; and

WHEREAS, the federal government considers not only local growth management laws and land use policy, but the adherence to such laws and the effectiveness of such land use policies when evaluating applications for federal transportation funding; and

WHEREAS, promoting sufficient ridership is necessary to make local mass
transit projects cost-effective and successful in the long term; and

WHEREAS, ensuring mass transit ridership and the success of applications for federal funding for local transportation projects will be best served with increased residential growth in areas close to current or planned transit facilities and by promoting development inside existing urbanized areas of the County; and

WHEREAS, urban sprawl increases traffic congestion in the outlying areas of Miami-Dade County and one of the purposes of providing mass transit is to provide relief from such traffic congestion; and

WHEREAS, some of the responsibilities of the CITT are to monitor, oversee, review, audit, and investigate implementation of transportation and transit projects funded in part or entirely by PTP surtax proceeds; and NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITT that the CITT supports maintaining the complete current UDB.