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Mr. Mike Falk July 27,1995 Page 2 Bingo participants begin to arrive at the building approximately 1 hour prior to the start of the session, with approximately 50 percent arriving in the last 15 minutes, Departures from the facility would tend to be concentrated in the first 15 minutes after the session ends. Since there are n6late afternoon or evening sessions scheduled during the weekdays, there is very little traffic generated by the facility during the p.m. peak hour of traffic on the surrounding street system, such as Snelling A venue and Fairview Avenue. At the most, we would expect several employees to arrive during Ul,e p.m. peak hour to begin preparing for the 7:00 p.m. bingo session. On a daily basis, the Knights of Columbus building is currently generating up to approximately 640 trips per day on Saturdays, with fewer trips during the weekdays and Sunday. Since bingo is attended on a regular, repeat basis by many of the participants, we would expect some of the traffic to be oriented to and from Fairview Avenue via Oakcrest Avenue. We estimated a total of 20 percent of the traffic would use this route. The remaining 80 percent was estimated to use Snelling Avenue to access the facility. Figure 1 shows the weekday peak arrival traffic volumes, such as those which would occur between 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. on Tuesdays through Thursdays. The outbound volumes reflect the amount of traffic which is estimated at the end of the 9:00 p.m, session on Tuesdays through Thursdays. On the weekends, the peak outbound volumes occur later, after the 11:00 p.m. session, and are higher due to greater weekend attendance. · Western Auto Characteristics I The proposed Western Autdfacility was measured at approximately 11,700 square feet. The facility will have seven service bays and a parts store. The service bays are primarily for maintenance work such as tire changes, battery replacement, etc., as opposed to heavy duty repair work. Traffic volumes resulting from the proposed project were estimated based on the Institute of Transportation Engineers Trip Generation, 5th Edition, which provides trip generation rates for auto service, parts and repair facilities. Only the a.m. and p.m. peak hour ra~es were provided. The daUy trip generation rate p~r 1,000 square feet of building area was estimated base<;l on the peak hour rates, assuming that the p.m. peak hour makes up approximately 8 percent of the total daily traffic. This results in a daily trip generation rate of approximately 30 trips per 1,000 square feet of building area. The rates used a!e shown in Table 2, along with the resulting traffic volumes. Over the course of a weekday, the auto facility is expected to generate approximately 350 trips. If the facility is open for 12 hours per day, this results in an average of approximately 15 customers in and 15 customers out per hour, or one customer every 4 minutes. This seems to be a conservatively high estimate of customer and traffic volumes. The ITE data indicated lower volumes overa]] on Saturd~ys and Sundays. "