HomeMy WebLinkAbout1635 BLUE SPRUCE PUD PRELIMINARY AND FINAL - 2 90 - SUBMITTAL DOCUMENTS - ROUND 1 - TRAFFIC STUDYDecember 29, 1989
1637 BLUE SPRUCE DRIVE P.U.D.
TRAFFIC ANALYSIS
GEFROH HATTMAN INC.
ARCHITECTS/PLANNERS
CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT
135 West Swallow Road
Fort Collins, CO 80525
(303)223-7335
The property is an existing two-story office structure in the IL Zoning
District. The building is currently being occupied as office space be-
ing utilized during normal business hours five days a week. Currently
approximately half of the building is occupied. The two proposed uses
will bring the occupancy rate to approximately 75 percent. Both intended
uses are off-peak hours and day uses. One use is a membership student
club and the other is a church group.
If one looks at the entire building as office space, one could make some
assumptions as to the trip per day anticipated and the peak time of traf-
fic. The building is approximately 32,400 square feet. The Urban Land
Institute suggests that general office space generates one trip per 80
square foot of building. With this assumption the building can be ex-
pected to generate 405 trips per day as it now exists and will impact ad-
jacent traffic infra -structures to this level without adverse impact.
The peak times of use according to the institute are at 7:30 to 8:30 -
11:30 to 1:30 and again at 4:30 to 8:30 as peak hours of traffic impact.
These uses will reduce traffic generated by this facility in these two
major catagories of volume and intensity.
The church organization estimates the size of its configuration at 80 to
100 members currently. Using a factor of four members per vehicle, a total
of 25 trips per meeting would be anticipated. At 100 percent increase in
membership over time, 50 trips per day can be anticipated. The frequency
of uses would be on Sunday mornings and Wednesday evenings, both of these
peaks would fall outside of the normal business -use peak.
The student organization estimates that it will have approximately 50 to
80 members throughout its existance at any one time using a figure of two
members per trip, 40 trips per meeting could be anticipated. Again the
organization anticipates meeting on the week day evenings and on weekends
which will also reduce the peak hour density of use on site.
The two uses will occupy half of the building. We can anticipate a 25 per-
cent reduction in overall traffic with these uses as opposed to the proper-
ty being used as office space as it has been in the past.