Sunny Isles Beach city officials have agreed to meet with unhappy residents of Ocean Reserve and discuss ways to improve traffic flow for the proposed Heritage Park. 

Using the comment period after the city commission had completed its business July 16, Jennifer Levin of Ocean View Tower B told commissioners the latest drawing of the park's traffic flow will mean disrupting the entrance and exit from the garage of the condo complex. That will create traffic problems, she and other residents believe. She described the city's plan to annex an acre of the complex as in an unfair transfer of one private group's property to assist another private group. 

City Manager Rick Conner pulled out site diagrams to help explain the issue at the site on the west side of Collins Avenue just south of the Lehman Causeway connection. 

At one point, City Attorney Hans Ottinot acknowledged there is some question about the legality of the easement the city obtained from Ocean Reserve for construction of the access road and that further meetings are expected.

Conner, Ottinot and commissioners were in agreement that the best course is to bring all the stakeholders together to hammer out the best solution possible.

While work on the garage planned for the southeast corner of the property is on a fast track, Conner said there is ample time to go back to the drawing board on the traffic flow for the north side access road.