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SITE ACCESS STUDY
FORT COLLINS, COLORADO
APRIL 1992
Prepared for:
W.W. Reynolds Companies
2601 Midpoint Drive, Suite C
Fort Collins, CO 80525
Poudre School. District
2407 West LaPorte Avenue
Fort Collins, CO 80521
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Prepared by:
MATTHEW J. DELICH, P.E.
3413 Banyan Avenue
Loveland, CO .80538
Phone: 303-669-2061
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Pinecone PUD is a proposed commercial/residential, development
which also includes the new Fort Collins High School. It is
located east of Timberline Road and north of Horsetooth Road in.
Fort Collins, Colorado. This site access study involved the steps
of trip generation, trip distribution, trip assignment, capacity
analysis, traffic signal warrant analysis, and accident analysis.
This study assessed the impacts of Pinecone PUD on the long
range (2010) street system in the vicinity of the proposed devel-
opment. As a result of this analysis, the following is concluded:
The development of Pinecone PUD is feasible from a traffic
- engineering standpoint. At full development as proposed,
approximately 25,640 trip ends will be generated at this site. Not
all of'these will be new trips. Some will be pass -by trips on the
area streets as part of the background traffic. The high school
trip generation was based upon data collected at Rocky Mountain
High School in Fort Collins. The trip generation rates developed
from this data were significantly higher than those shown in Trip
Generation, 4th Edition. This local data source was deemed to be
more appropriate.
- Based upon current traffic volumes and existing geometrics,
the Timberline/Horsetooth signalized intersection operates
acceptably.
- As Pinecone PUD develops and traffic increases, a signal
will be warranted at the Timberline/Vermont intersection. Vermont
is a maior street serving the business park development west of
Timberline, and will be designated as a collector street serving
Pinecone PUD.
With full development of all the proposed uses in Pinecone
PUD, the Timberline/Horsetooth and Timberline/Vermont signalized
intersections will operate acceptably. Selected movements at some
stop sign controlled intersections will not operate acceptably.
This operation will be due to the background traffic on Timberline
Road and Horsetooth Road. There is little that can be done to
improve this operation. There are alternative means of egress
where this does occur. Selective accesses should be restricted to
limited turns as shown in Figure 7. This recommendation is made
assuming the build out future traffic volumes. The limited turn
accesses can initially be implemented as full turn intersections
and changed as traffic operation and safety dictates.
- Streets and intersections internal to Pinecone PUD will
operate acceptably.
- With proper traffic control and the recommended geometrics,
the accident rate should be minimal for typical urban conditions.
TABLE
2
Trip Generation
Daily
A.M.
Peak
P.M.
Peak
Land Use
Trips
Trips
Trips
Trips
Trips
in
out
in
out
.
ParcelA
Neighborhood Retail
7430
122
53
305
318
Center - 100 KSF
Parcel B
High School - 1800 students
5250
655
355
112
169
-Parcel C
Neighborhood Park &
200
77
55
93
93
H.S. Athletic Fields
Day Care - 100 students
700
63
56
62
67
D
CParcel
C-store/gas & retail - 6KSF
3000
85
80
95
100
Multi -Family - 200 D.U.
1170
14
75
75
37
Parcel E
Business Services - 4.3 Ac
2620
44
19
106
110
Parcel F
Single Family - 22 D.U.
220
5
12
14
8
Parcel G
Single Family - 60 D.U.
600
13
33
38
22
Parcel H
Single Family - 40 D.U.
400
8
22
25
15
Parcel J
Single Family - 30 D.U.
300
6
17
19
11
Parcel K
Single Family - 36 D.U.
360
8
20
23
13
Parcel L
Single Family - 22 D.U.
220
5
12
14
8
Parcel M
Single Family - 72 D.U.
720
15
40
45
27
Parcel N
Single,Family - 85 D.U.
850
18
47
54
31
Parcel P
Single Family - 160 D.U.
1600
34
88
101
59