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PL £ASANTON~ MEMORANDUM Date : July 12, 2024 To: From: Mayor and City Council Gerry Beaudin, City Manager ~ Mike Tassano, Deputy Director of Community Development, Transportation Re : Agenda Item 23, PUD-147, P22-1089, Tract 8522 , Merritt At the June 26, 2024 Planning Commission meeting, the above-referenced Merritt property development applications were reviewed by the Planning Commission. The Planning Commission voted unanimously to support staff's recommendation to forward the project to the City Council for review. Included in the Planning Commission's recommendation was a request for staff to complete a supplemental evaluation of access to Foothill Road and consider the construction of a traffic signal on Foothill Road or an alternate improvement to assist with the access to Foothill Road . The Commission's concerns related to the speed of the vehicles on Foothill Road and the ability for the senior residents of the project to safely exit the proposed development. This memorandum provides the additional analysis requested by the Planning Commission and is provided as a supplemental memorandum since the analysis had not been completed at the time of publication of the City Council agenda packet. • Merritt Property Supplemental Site Access Evaluation Project Details The proposed project includes 111 age restricted single family homes , with residents limited to adults 55 and older. The point of access to and from the development is on Foothill Road. Foothill Road is a 2-lane roadway with a posted speed limit of 45 mph. The proposed project will widen Foothill Road along the 800-foot project frontage and along an additional 1,000 feet to provide a wider section from Muirwood Drive south to Foothill Knolls Drive (~1,800 feet of improvements). These improvements will include an additional 27 feet of usable roadway which will be used to create new left turn pockets and new buffered bike lanes . A six-foot sidewalk will also be constructed on the east side of Foothill Road ; this sidewalk extension is located outside of the previously mentioned 27-foot roadway widening area.