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HomeMy WebLinkAboutWATERGLEN PUD PDP - 71 93A - CORRESPONDENCE -Street Oversizing Criteria - Page 3 Any street that only meets one of the above criteria may qualify for street oversizing reimbursement if it makes an immediate traffic operational improvement. These improvements are identified by the City Traffic Engineer and are defined as: 1. Improvement to capacity: The completion of required improvements would remove an existing capacity restriction or significantly increase system capacity that is needed. 2. Safety: Completion of improvements would increase system safety or remove an obsolete design area. 3. Continuation of system: Improvements would complete a portion of a system wide improvement or directly add to the transportation in a continuous manner. There are certain streets identified as important to the long range transportation needs of the'City. Improvement of portions of these streets is deemed a community wide benefit and would qualify for street oversizing reimbursement. These streets include: Timberline Road from Harmony Road to Colo. Hwy. 14 North College Avenue from Laporte Ave. to the "Y' Vine Drive from College Avenue to Summitview III. Atmeals Process The Director of Development Services may consider waiving the application of any of the criteria for developments determined to be important in providing community -wide benefit that would not otherwise qualify for street oversizing reimbursement. Such development could include, but not be limited to: industry that creates primary jobs, community hospitals, and regional shopping centers. Appeals of the decision of the Director of Development Services shall be made directly to the City Manager within 30 calendar days of the Director of Development Services decision. Street Oversizing Criteria - Page 2' C. Any subdivision finally approved after January 1, 1980, qualifies as an existing development once all engineering improvements (water, sewer, streets, curbs, gutters, street lights, fire hydrants, storm drainage) are complete. 2. Infill developments (i.e., subdivisions or P.U.D.'s completely surrounded by existing development) may have the contiguity requirement waived by the Director of Engineering if the area of the infill development is at least 25% of the area of the undeveloped land surrounded by existing development. II. Street Criteria. For any street to be eligible for reimbursement, it must be master planned as an arterial or collector street. Each street in the development to qualify for street oversizing reimbursement must meet two of the following criteria: 0 I. Traffic volumes a. Present traffic volumes are inadequate: Present capacity (prior to this development) is over 5,000 VPD for collector, 6,000 VPD for two lane arterial roadway (24-30 ft. wide, county standard), 10,000 VPD for two lane roadway with left turn lane. b. Future traffic volumes will be inadequate (including this development) and indicate improvement to arterial street width (or collector street width only for collector) will be required within 5 years. 2. Arterial street connects to existing full width improved arterial street. 3. Origin or destination completed. Connects or improves an inadequate or unimproved street between two fully improved streets 4. Street located in an infill development - defined as a vacant lot or land surrounded by existing development. STREET OVERSIZING CRITERIA Staff recommends that a development proposal would have to qualify for street oversizing reimbursement based on criteria that would encourage infill projects, contiguous development, and building arterial streets when they are needed. The following are recommended criteria based on the logical extension of the street infrastructure. These criteria are intended to encourage development in the area immediately outside of existing development (and infill projects) and discourage development of "leap frog" projects by limiting City participation in the construction of arterial and collector streets to those streets which are needed now or in the very near future. Staff believes that, by eliminating our street oversizing obligations in outlying areas that require miles of major arterial be built prematurely, the street oversizing fund could be stablized as a funding mechanism. By spending street oversizing funds on infill areas and on areas that would extend the existing street network in a logical extension of the system, the City would get the most value from its street oversizing dollar, and the street system would grow in a safer, more affordable way. I. Development and Ma ter Plan Critnr°• The following criteria would have to be met by any development proposal or master plan to be eligible for street oversizing reimbursement: 1. Contiguity The master plan or development proposal must meet the following definition of contiguity: At least one total side -of the proposed development (if rectangular or square in shape) or 1/6 of its total boundary perimeter must be contiguous with existing development or be located between existing development and the nearest fully improved arterial street that provides major access to the development. Existing development is defined as follows: A. Subdivisions which were approved before January 1, 1980, must have Building Permits issued on at least 50% of the lots in the subdivision to qualify as existing development. B. Subdivisions or PUD's approved after January 1, 198.0, will qualify as existing development when the first building permit is issued for construction within the subdivision or P.U.D. MEMORANDUM DATE: April 15, 1994 TO: Steve Olt, Project Planner FROM: Matt Baker, Engineering : �( % RE: Proposed Waterglen PUD Engineering staff believes that the Waterglen proposal does not meet the street oversizing criteria and would not be eligible for reimbursement for on -site collector and arterial street construction. City Council adopted criteria with the 1988 Street Oversizing ordinance changes. These criteria are intended to encourage development immediately outside existing development (and infill projects), and to discourage "leapfrog" development by limiting City participation in the construction of oversized streets. Staff believes that, by eliminating our street oversizing obligations in outlying areas that require streets to be built (and maintained) prematurely, the City would get the most value from it's street oversizing dollar by spending street oversizing funds in infill areas and on areas that would extend the existing street network in a logical sequence. The object of these adopted criteria is for the street network to grow in a safer and more affordable way. The Waterglen proposal does not meet the contiguity criteria, the traffic volume criteria, does not connect to an improved arterial, does not complete an origin or destination, and is not an infill development. There are no system or capacity improvements needed on this portion of Vine Drive. Waterglen is not "located between existing development and the nearest fully improved arterial street that provides major access to the development." Vine Drive at the Waterglen site is not an access to the Anheueser Busch (AB) plant by any stretch of the imagination and any improvements to this portion of street will not improve or even affect this traffic. Because the developer is pointing to the AB plant as an example, it is interesting to note that AB constructed all of its perimeter, off -site and interior roads at it's own expense. A copy of the adopted criteria is attached.