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ROSEVILLE PLANNING COMMISSION Wednesday, January 12, 1994 3 Peterson also explained that the Grandview driveway will be moved to reduce headlight glare into existing houses on the north side of Grandview. He also explained that the building elevations have been varied to include more and different types of building walls and roof lines to eliminate the barracks look of the original project. Member Wall asked if fire truck access to the driveways along the south side of the project have been provided and reviewed by the Fire Marshal. The staff responded that the driveways have been reviewed by the fire marshall and have been approved. John Peterson explained the landscape plan for the entire site and the detail plan around each unit. Chairman Wietecki expressed concern about the number of trees along the south side and adjacent to the Highway 36 corridor. Jim Johnson, Traffic Engineer from Bolton and Menk Consultants, provided an overview of the traffic volumes to be generated from the site. He stated that 5.8 trips per unit per day can be expected, and that a total of 340 trips per day would be generated by the entire project. Of the 170 trips leaving this site, 65 percent will move to the south on Lexington to Highway 36~ 15 percent of the trips will be to the north on Lexington and beyond B2~ 10 percent of the trips will be to the west around B2~ and 10 percent of the trips will be to the east on B2, Grandview or Lovell. Member Harms stated that left-turn crossings at Lexington will be difficult and asked if it would be possible for drivers to use B2 to head west and then enter Highway 36 from Hamline. Member Sandstrom asked for the total impact of this project upon the traffic that currently exists on Lexington Avenue. Jim Johnson responded that the total number of trips created by the Good Value project would add between 1 and 1 1/2 percent to the volume of traffic existing on Lexington Avenue at this time. He also explained that trip generation at shopping centers or service centers will be much higher than residential uses proposed in this project. The businesses try to attract or depend upon the trips located along Lexington Avenue; whereas, housing simply uses it for entrance and exits to the residence. Johnson explained that it would be not possible to have traffic signals at either Grandview or Lovell onto Lexington Avenue, because this would simply stack up traffic. However, he did state that additional traffic lanes or coordinating the existing signals to allow for gaps in the traffic flow would be a less expensive and more efficient solution to providing capacity for the Good Value