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From: Kathleen Reavis
To: Janet Meiselburns; Marc Virata; Ron Fuchs
Date: 7/2/99 9:16AM
Subject: Re: Harvest Park
My concern remains that this local street include 14' combined parking and bikelanes - its not that the
street needs to be a higher classification for traffic volumes, but given our repeated experiences around
the community I cannot support a roadway next to a park site that does not include adequate room for
parking and bikelanes. I believe we need to stick to our original position on this and the developer needs
to design their site in order to provide it. Thanks.
>>> Janet Meiselburns 07/01/99 03:08PM >>>
Dear team,
After the discussion with the developer I thought it might help you to understand the programming and
design intent for the neighborhood park.
Neighborhood parks have never had to complete a traffic study because we are not great traffic
generators at peak or off-peak times. The parks major traffic patterns are generated at off-peak times,
including weekends. The nature of soccer and baseball is to locate them closest to the nearest parking
which in this case will be at the north and east side of the park. Both schools have large parking areas in
these locations.
The reason we want a secondary access, along Harvest Park Lane, is to sever the Harvest Park
neighborhood. I am sure that some families will park along the street but the majority of the parking,
access and traffic to the park will be on the north and east side of the park.
We will be installing an 8' wide sidewalk that will meander along the south boundary of the park and will
connect to the off street sidewalk that the Harvest Park developers will be developing.
Based on the use and traffic generated on Harvest Park Lane, I think a local residential street standard
would meet the needs of the park and the neighborhood. The off-street sidewalk system proposed will
provide a great connection between the two neighborhoods around the park.
I'm sorry that we could not meet to discuss this item but these are my thoughts on how to approach and
resolve the design issues with this project.
I will be back in the office on July 15th if we still need to talk
Janet