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MEMORANDUM
DATE: January 29, 1999
TO: Ted Shepard, Senior City Planner
FROM: Kathleen Reavis, Senior Transportation Planner
RE: Good Samaritan Village
Based upon my review of the applicable pedestrian and bicycle level of service standards for the Good
Samaritan Village project, it is necessary for this project to provide a pedestrian crossing on Trilby at
Constellation/Avondale. This improvement was not mentioned in the project's Transportation Impact
Study so I wanted to make you aware of it as the project moves forward in the development review
process.
This pedestrian crossing is needed for the project to meet the directness and continuity elements of the
pedestrian LOS standards. By providing this crossing, pedestrians from the Good Samaritan Village site
will have access to the adjacent sidewalk system provided by the Ridgewood Hills development on the
southside of Trilby Road. Without this pedestrian crossing, people (residents, employees, guests, etc.)
from the Good Samaritan Village would not have any walkway connections to the adjacent land uses
since currently there is not a sidewalk along the north side of Trilby Road. This pedestrian crossing will
need to be designed to include a center median/pedestrian refuge area. This is necessary since Trilby is
classified as a minor arterial at this location and given the nature of the Good Samaritan Village project,
many of the pedestrians using this crossing may be elderly and need a protected area to wait should they
not make it across both traffic lanes before another vehicle approaches.
The bicycle level of service standards are achieved by this project if they provide bikelanes along their
frontage on Trilby. This will provide the connection to the north/south bikelane on Avondale as well as into
the existing east/west shoulder/bikelane that exists on Trilby, east of this project site. The connection into
the existing shoulder/bikelane to the east will also allow cyclists to connect to the wide shoulders on
College Avenue (US287) to travel north or south. In the future as development occurs to the west,
bikelanes will be provided along Trilby to better connect cyclists with Shields Street.
I hope this information clarifies the "off -site" pedestrian and bicycle improvements that are needed for this
project. I have noted other pedestrian -related improvements (on -site) on my comment sheet with the site
plan. Please let me know if you have any questions or need additional information.
Thank you
cc: Eric Bracke, Traffic Engineer
Tim Blandford, Development Review Engineer
Bob Blanchard, Director of Current Planning
Matt Delich, Traffic Engineering Consultant