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Engineering , Landscape Architecture . Planning , Surveying . Traffic <br /> INCORPORATED <br /> Creating extraordinary <br /> Communities <br /> MEMORANDUM <br /> TO: Rob Davidson rob@davidsoncos.com <br /> COPY: Vernon Swing,P.E. vswing@rlkinc.com <br /> FROM: Steve Manhart,P.E.,PTOE,PTP smanhart@rlkine.com <br /> DATE: February 7, 2012 <br /> RE: Traffic Study—Market-Rate Apartment Development& Conceptual Parcel <br /> 1201 W. County Road E,Arden Hills,MN <br /> RLK Project No.2011-052-M <br /> RLK Incorporated has been retained 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 had been used until <br /> recently as a temporary apartmenVdormitory for a nearby college. The site is now vacant. <br /> The hotel site and a vacant parcel at the east end of the site are being considered for reuse. Under <br /> consideration for the hotel site is an apartment building to replace the former hotel use. There remain <br /> numerous land use options being considered for the vacant parcel to the east. The purpose of this memo <br /> is to analyze the traffic impacts associated with the trip generation potential of each land use option and <br /> 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 /> 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-unit market- <br /> Trip Generation,Eighth Edition,Institute of Transportation Engineers,Washington,DC,2008 <br /> Offices: Duluth • Ham Lake - Hibbing • Minnetonka • Oakdale <br /> (952) 933-0972 - 6110 Blue Circle Drive - Suite 100 • Minnetonka, MN 55343 - FAX(952) 933-1153 <br /> Equal Opportunity Employer <br />