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THE CITY OF pL£AS&NTONo 2 City Council-Planning Commission General Plan Joint Workshop March 8, 2005 Planning Department Public Works Department SUBJECT: CIRCULATION ELEMENT UPDATE - "EXISTING" AND "EXISTING PLUS APPROVED" DEVELOPMENT INTERSECTION LEVELS-OF-SERVICE PURPOSE: To provide baseline information for evaluating future land use and circulation alternatives. STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Receive staff presentation and determine next steps, as identified in the "Recommendations" section of this report. SUMMARY: Council directed a Circulation Element review which begins with the existing traffic situation and subsequently reviews both land use and circulation alternatives. This report presents the existing situation and projects the situation as a result of development of approved projects. Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council: BACKGROUND At the January 25, 2005 meeting, the City Council directed staff to follow the "Option B" process for reviewing possible changes to the Circulation Element. This process begins by using the existing roadway network and conditions as a starting point, then adds approved projects to show how the circulation system would handle that additional traffic. The next steps would then be Council-directed exploration of street network, land use, and other types of "mitigations" to arrive at alternatives which could then be comprehensively reviewed. This report focuses on the first steps, establishing the "Existing" and the "Existing Plus Approved" conditions. It also includes a fuller description of what is meant and experienced by the "levels-of-service" descriptors used to characterize traffic conditions in order to respond to Council-Commission SR 05:070 Page 1