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HomeMy WebLinkAboutGATEWAY AT HARMONY PUD, LOT 3, MAKEN II - AMENDED FINAL - 1-88J - SUBMITTAL DOCUMENTS - ROUND 1 - TRAFFIC STUDY III III 0 M MEMORANDUM in O tt co M TO: Linda Ripley, VF Ripley & Associates oro Eric Bracke, Fort Collins Traffic Engineer 0 cp o Fort Collins Planning Department o U °) FROM: Matt De l i ch /S?/f• 0 u_ DATE: November 21, 1996 oSUBJECT: Gateway at Harmony Road trip generation comparison -J r (File: 9534MEM2) 0 0 w cm p co This memorandum provides documentation of a trip E 0o generation comparison between two uses on a parcel within the . rn Gateway at Harmony Road in Fort Collins . In a traffic study (The Gateway at Harmony Road Site Access Study, April 1995) , 6 z one of the uses considered was a fast food restaurant, located 0 °x between Jiffy Lube and McDonald' s, as shown in Figure 1 . As cv °-N. a fast food restaurant, it was estimated that this parcel N would generate the following vehicular traffic: Daily - 1700 trip ends Morning Peak Hour - 149 trip ends Noon Peak Hour - 125 trip ends Afternoon Peak Hour - 98 trip ends The reference document for this estimate is Trip Generation, 5th .Edition, ITE and the February 1995 Update. The land use proposed to replace the fast food restaurant is a 6, 800 square foot retail building. Specific uses within this building are not known at this time. Therefore, the Ili category of "Specialty Retail" (Code 814) from the cited reference was used to estimate the trip generation from the ®. z proposed building. Specialty retail is defined as a small or strip shopping center containing a variety of retail shops, I z specializing in quality apparel , hard goods, services such as 0 Z real estate office, dance studios, or florists, and small W restaurants . As a specialty retail building, it was estimated .l Z that this parcel would generate the following vehicular W ° traffic : ® a Daily - 280 trip ends . o Morning Peak Hour - 12 trip ends v Noon Peak Hour - 44 trip ends ra Afternoon Peak Hour - 33 trip ends F- ILI aS A simple comparison indicates that the proposed 6, 800 I k square foot retail building will generate less traffic than t: a the fast food restaurant used in the cited traffic study. Since the traffic study demonstrated that acceptable operation could be achieved with the use that generated more traffic, 2 it is concluded that acceptable operation could be achieved with the 6, 800 square foot retail building. As a sensitivity ., analysis, it can be seen that it would require a three times increase of the estimated trip generation for the retail building in order to reach the trip generation used in the original traffic study. It is concluded that acceptable operation can be achieved at the key intersections with the proposed land use change.