HomeMy WebLinkAboutUTILITY SERVICE CENTER OVERALL DVELOPMENT PLAN - 16 90D - CORRESPONDENCE - TRANSPORTATION ISSUETranspcftion Services
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TO: Bob Blanchard, Director, Current Planning
Ted Shepard, Senior Planner
FROM: Gary Diede, Group Leader; Transportation Operations and Projects
RE: Utility Service Center O.D.P. Alternate Plan
DATE: June 3, 1997
Transportation Services has received the request for Utility Services Overall Development which
includes the potential expansion to the south of 4.86 acres for a new parking lot. The O.D.P.
indicates that Loomis Street and Grant Street will not extend north of Elm Street into the Utility
Service Center property.
The Land Use Code states:
"The overall development plan shall conform to the Master Street Plan requirements and the
street pattern/connectivity standards both within and adjacent to the boundaries of the plan as
required purusant to Sections 3.6.1 and 3.6.3 (A) through (F).
Section 3.6.3 (F) states:
"All development plans shall incorporate and continue all sub -arterial streets stubbed tothe
boundary of the development plan by previously approved development plans or existing
development.r
Since Loomis and Grant Streets are not planned to extend north, the applicant has proposed an
Alternate Plan that maybe substituted for a plan otherwise meeting the standard cited above.
Based on the review criteria found in the Land Use Code, Transportation Services finds that'the
Alternate Plan accomplishes the purpose of ensuring that the local street system is well designed
for safety, efficiency, and convenience for automobile, bicycle, pedestrian, and transit modes of
travel. Based on the fact that the O.D.P. is for an employment center, with outside storage and
security needs, there does not need to be a high degree of vehicular connectivity.
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The Alternate Plan will provide multiple direct connections to the site and not form barriers
between the site and the neighborhood. Further, the discontinuation across Elm Street by Loomis
and Grant will not diminish transportation facilities for bicycle., pedestrian and transit. The
O.D.P. can be served by the street connections shown on the Alternate Plan without exceeding
level of service standards.
Finally, an extension of Loomis and Grant Streets would require the crossing of a mapped
floodplain and small wetland. By not extending across Elm Street, the Alternate Plan minimizes
the impacts on natural areas and features.
Therefore, Transportation Services finds that the Alternate Plan accomplishes the purposes of the
Land Use Code equally well or better than would a plan and design which complies with the
above -referenced standard.