City of Coral Gables

File #: 20-1575    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: Adopted
File created: 8/6/2020 In control: City Commission
On agenda: 8/25/2020 Final action: 8/25/2020
Enactment date: 8/25/2020 Enactment #: 2020-178
Title: A Resolution of the City Commission of Coral Gables, Florida, reaffirming Resolution 2019-323 and urging the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners to complete the Old Cutler Trail bicycle path along Old Cutler Road. (Sponsored by Vice Mayor Lago)
Sponsors: Mayor Lago
Attachments: 1. Signed Resolution 2020-178, 2. Old Cutler Trail Cover Memo, 3. Old Cutler Trail Resolution, 4. Signed Resolution 2019-323 (1), 5. Verbatim Transcript - CCMtg Aug 25 2020 - Agenda Item F-5 - Resolution urging the MDBCC to complete the Old Cutler Trail bicycle path along Old Cutler Road, 6. Snapper Creek Lake Parkway Gate Memorandum - 8-19-20

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A Resolution of the City Commission of Coral Gables, Florida, reaffirming Resolution 2019-323 and urging the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners to complete the Old Cutler Trail bicycle path along Old Cutler Road. 

(Sponsored by Vice Mayor Lago)

 

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The Old Cutler Trail (“trail”) is a paved, 11-mile long, multipurpose trail used primarily for cycling. The trail currently passes through the gated residential community of Snapper Creek Lakes by way of Snapper Creek Road, circumventing a portion of Old Cutler Road that provides a more direct route between the intersections of SW 57th Ave and Old Cutler Road and Old Cutler Road and Snapper Creek Road.

 

Connecting the northern and southern portions of the trail via Old Cutler Road would 

improve the trail-users experience, safety, and wayfinding rather than directing pedestrian and bicycle traffic through an unmarked path in a residential neighborhood. It would also provide some relief for the residents of Snapper Creek Road, which is the path current users of the trail must take to travel between the bifurcated segments of the trail.

 

In October 2019, the City Commission urged Miami-Dade County to complete the trail but that has not occurred.  Consequently, the City Commission once again urges Miami-Dade County to connect the two portions of the bike trail by way of Old Cutler Road itself, to improve the experience and increase safety for all users of the trail.