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Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) are accurate. He stated that Lil Ivy League creates a little bit more, about one per student, as opposed to the average .8 that ITE had established. He continued that using that study, there will be 20 extra trips in the peak hour, which is an increase of one car every three minutes. He added that even at a worst -case scenario where there will be 20 additional students with 20 vehicles coming in to drop off and another 20 vehicles coming in to pick up for a total of 40 trips, that will still be a car every minute. He indicated that there would then be an estimated 740 vehicles instead of 700 vehicles on that road in that peak hour. Chair O'Connor asked Mr. Tassano if he is confident that with the traffic - calming measures, safety will still be in place. Mr. Tassano replied that one of the things that the Traffic Engineering studies determined was that there is actually a very small and not unusual number of vehicles that are speeding, such that when his staff measured Black Avenue, it did not actually come out any different than any other residential street as far as the percentage of speeding vehicles. He explained that the perception seen in neighborhoods is that it is okay if four percent out of 1,000 vehicles are speeding because that is a small number of cars, but when there are 6,000 vehicles, it seems that there are more cars going at that high rate of speed. He indicated that the combination of tools that will be put in will control that speed and actually bring it down to what will be lower than a normal critical speed on a residential street. Chair O'Connor asked Mr. Tassano if, in essence, he thinks there will be a safer environment with traffic - calming, even with the extra 40 vehicles at peak hour. Mr. Tassano said yes. He added that Black Avenue will have one of the most extensive and most expensive traffic - calming programs staff has put together; that the number of tools being put in is something that has not been done in any other location. Mr. Dolan asked Mr. Tassano to comment on what the City's normal annual budget for traffic - calming is. Mr. Tassano replied that the City has an annual budget of $25,000. He noted that this project costs $400,000, and staff presented it to the City Council because they are all valuable tools. He explained that all $400,000 is not going in at one time, and because it could not all come from the $25,000 a year traffic - calming budget, staff is staging it in order to absorb some of that cost by using some Capital Improvement Program (CIP) funds. Commissioner Ritter inquired if staff included any vacancies or projected new additions to the area when it did the analysis. He noted that this is only for 20 additional students and inquired about other building down the street that may come back and say it wants to change its usage to another 100 people. Mr. Tassano said no. He explained that what staff did and will look at is what it expects to occur in the General Plan; for example, if there is a vacant parcel, staff would assume that that vacant parcel will be filled with something. He noted that this location is pretty PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, June 11, 2014 Page 5 of 12