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MEMORANDUM <br />TO <br />: Rob Davidson <br />rob@davidsoncos.com <br />COPY: <br />Vernon Swing, P.E. <br />vswing@rlkinc.com <br />FROM <br />: Steve Manhart, P.E., PTOE, PTP <br />smanhart@rlkinc.com <br />DATE <br />: June 6, 2011 <br />RETraffic Study – Select Senior Living Site & Conceptual Parcel <br />: <br />N.W. Quadrant - Lexington & County Road E Property, Arden Hills, MN <br />RLK Project No. 2011-052-M <br />RLK Incorporated has been asked to review the trip generation and traffic impacts associated with the <br />development of the properties in the northwest quadrant of Lexington Avenue and County Road E in <br />Arden Hills, MN. The existing land use consists of a former 150-room Holiday Inn hotel with <br />restaurant/bar and conference facilities. The hotel has closed, and the hotel site is currently being used as <br />a temporary apartment/dormitory for a nearby college. <br />The hotel site and a vacant parcel at the east end of the site are being considered for redevelopment. <br />Under consideration at this time for the hotel site is an assisted living facility called Select Senior Living. <br />There are numerous land use options being considered for the vacant parcel to the east. The purpose of <br />this memo is to analyze the traffic impacts associated with the trip generation potential of each land use <br />option and the access considerations to and from the site onto County Road E. <br />Trip Generation <br />For this assessment, RLK used rates and equations found in Trip Generation, Eighth Edition, published <br />1 <br />by the Institute of Traffic Engineers. This report lists the numbers of trips that one might expect to be <br />generated by particular land uses based on a variety of variables (numbers of units, numbers of <br />employees, per thousand square feet of floor area, etc.). <br />The trip generation for the site while it was a 150-room hotel was 1,338 trips per day. That included 101 <br />trips to and from the site in the A.M. Peak Hour (7-8 A.M.), and 105 trips to and from the site in the P.M. <br />Peak Hour. The proposed reuse of the former hotel site is to convert the building into a 150-bed Assisted <br /> <br />1 <br /> Trip Generation, Eighth Edition, Institute of Transportation Engineers, Washington, DC, 2008 <br /> <br />