HomeMy WebLinkAboutMORNINGSTAR ASSISTED LIVING & MEMORY CARE - PDP - PDP130024 - CORRESPONDENCE - TRAFFIC STUDYRegards,
Amy Redstone
require such an improvement for what little they are contributing, plus losing the neighborhood ambiance the I
trees provide to the area.
Best regards,
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Traffic Systems Engineer
City of Fort Collins
970-221-6630
wstanford@fcgov.com
From: Jason Holland
Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 8:47 AM
To: Ward Stanford
Subject: FW: Morningstar Facility Input
Can you help me with this? I also have a 2nd neighborhood meeting and want to go over a number of potential q&a's
with you so that I'm prepared.
Thanks,
Jason Holland
970.224.6126
From: Amy Redstone [mailto:chookela@)hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 8:39 AM
To: Jason Holland
Subject: Morningstar Facility Input
Hello Jason -
My name is Amy Redstone, and I live at 1600 Quail Hollow Drive in Collindale. I am unable to attend the
neighborhood meeting so am submitting my remarks via email.
My concern about the Morningstar Long -Term Care Facility has to do with the difficulty turning left on to
Horsetooth from Lochwood. This is already a very difficult turn to make because of the volume of oncoming
traffic on Horsetooth and because those left -turning vehicles are often blocked by those cars turning left onto
Lochwood from east -bound Horsetooth. As a result of this current difficulty, cars pass through Collindale
(Preston, Quail Hollow) and turn left onto Horsetooth from Carlton Rd instead (which is a slightly easier turn
with a median lane available). With the addition of the new facility, I am concerned that this pass -through
traffic will increase unless a traffic solution is implemented to enable cars to more easily turn left onto
Horsetooth from Lochwood toward the center of town. I realize that this intersection is very close to the light
at Lemay and Horsetooth, but the city really needs to come up with a solution or I believe the traffic in
neighborhood with children will increase as visitors will inevitably want to go toward the center of Fort Collins
after leaving the facility.
I believe that the city said it would do a traffic study of this intersection. What has been the outcome of that
study?
Thank you.
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Jason Holland
From:
Ward Stanford
Sent:
Wednesday, September 11, 2013 5:50 PM
To:
Jason Holland
Cc:
Joe Olson
Subject:
RE: Morningstar Facility Input
Attachments:
TRF-SharpMX2610@fcgov.com_20130911_173111.pdf
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Sorry Jason,
I ran out of time to get the PDF's done before having to deal with evening traffic. Please find attached the PDF's.
Ward.
Jason, the following is my response if you want to use it.
Hello Ms. Redstone,
I am sorry that making a left turn on to Horsetooth from Lochwood Drive is difficult during the rush hours. I do wish we
had some method of making it better as well but we do not. It's an unfortunate but typical characteristic of a lower
volume street intersecting a high volume street during peak hour traffic.
The Assisted Living development proposal could be viewed as a fortunate development choice for the area as they
typically produce very little new traffic to area streets. During the morning rush hour they are expected to only
contribute about 2 trips to the south bound left turn and 5 trips to that left turn in the evening rush hour. Additionally
they are expected to add about 7 new trips to the morning east bound left turn onto Lochwood and about 9 new trips to
that left turn in the evening rush hour. That small amount of new traffic is indistinguishable from the existing daily
traffic. Those numbers of new trips are over the course of the rush hour, so 9 new trips in 60 minutes equates to about 1
new car about every 6.5 minutes, or if viewed as all 9 vehicles arriving in the last 15 minutes of the rush hour that works
out to be about 1 new vehicle every minute and a half. A very low amount of new traffic. I know it's not helping the
difficulty you currently experience but it such a small addition that it won't be noticeable from the existing rush hour
traffic or even in the traffic outside of the rush hours.
The Traffic Operations department does have a Neighborhood Traffic Mitigation Program to assist in neighborhood
speeding and/or cut-thru traffic problems. The person to contact to discuss your neighborhood traffic issues with is
Steve Gilchrist at 970-224-6175, or Joe Olson at 970-221-6630. I've cc'd them on this email to have familiarity of the
issue if you choose to contact them.
A traffic study was submitted with the project proposal and it finds little to no impact to the existing conditions due to
the low volume of traffic these types of uses traditionally generate. I've included PDF's of the Trip Generation table (the
estimate of the total number of trips the development is expected to generate in 24 hours and also in and outbound
during the AM and PM rush hours) and the Site Generated Peak Hour Traffic figure (provides the quantity of new trips
(vehicles) the proposal is expected to generate at the Horsetooth/Lochwood intersection and its access drive(s)).
The Lochwood and Horsetooth intersection does meet the City's requirement for the addition of a west bound right turn
lane from Horsetooth to Lochwood. The project does add a few trips to that left and could be responsible for
constructing the right turn lane. The City has discussed the issue and since the addition of the right turn lane would
require removing most/all of the large trees by the Schrader's Country Store the City is not inclined to require the right
turn lane. The project is only contributing 4-5 vehicles during the rush hours to the lane so it seems unreasonable to