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APPENDIX B - TRAFFIC ANALYSIS INTRODUCTION The Twin Lakes area is located within the City of Roseville, Minnesota and is bounded by County Road C2 and Terrace Drive to the north, County Road C to the south, Snelling Avenue to the east and Cleveland Avenue to the west (see Figure 4 in Appendix A). The entire Twin Lakes Business Park is currently developed with approximately 1.4 million square feet of office, industrial, warehouse, truck terminal and minor retail land uses. The proposed project is projected to redevelop approximately 908,150 square feet of this existing building space plus some existing open space into roughly 1,348,356 square feet ofoffice/showroom building area. This will add approximately 738,810 square feet of building space to the Twin Lakes area. The proposed project will also include the construction of a new east/west roadway link (Twin Lakes Parkway) between the 1-35W northbound ramps I Cleveland A venue intersection and the Terrace Drive I Fairview A venue intersection. The study process included: the documentation of the existing traffic conditions near the site; the development of Year 2011 background and post-development traffic forecasts at key access intersections adjacent to the site; capacity analyses ofthe key access intersections under the existing, background and post-development scenarios; the documentation of summary conclusions and the development of roadway and/or traffic control recommendations to ensure adequate traffic operations to the from the site following the redevelopment. The key sections of the study are listed below and are summarized in the following paragraphs of this memorandum. All Tables and Figures appear at the end of this Appendix. . Existing Conditions · Traffic Forecasts · Capacity Analyses · Conclusions · Recommendations EXISTING CONDITIONS The existing traffic conditions in and around the Twin Lakes redevelopment area were observed and documented. These include the existing roadway and intersection geometrics, intersection traffic control and current traffic demands. ExistiD~ Roadwav System Regional access to and from the Twin Lakes area is provided via I-35W and Snelling Avenue (Trunk Highway 51). Subregional and local access is provided by Cleveland A venue, County Road C, County Road D and Fairview A venue (Figure B 1). I-35W is a urban freeway with interchanges at the County Road C I Cleveland Avenue and County Road D junctions. The roadway is functionally classified by MnlDOT as a principal arterial. Snelling A venue (TH 51) is currently a four lane divided expressway with at-grade intersections at the County Road C and County Road C2 junctions. The Snelling A venue approaches to these intersections are provided with exclusive left and right turning lanes. The roadway is classified by MnlDOT as a principal arterial. #24397 55