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Mr. Lee -3- February 4, 1987 2. Determine Future Conditions The City would provide the location, use and intensity of all land use changes in the downtown on a block by block basis. TJKM would calculate buildout traffic volumes and intersection volume-to-capacity ratios with levels of service, again on a block by block basis. Future year traffic projections would also take into account the through traffic information available from the previous General Plan studies. As a result of this information, an assessment of future problems and congestion points will be determined. In addition, an estimate of future required parking spac. es based on the new commercial land use will be determined. 3. Recommended Circulation Plan Once the future traffic volumes and potential problems are ascertained from the previous phase, It is appropriate to develop a plan to adequately serve the downtown area. The impacts of a "do nothing" plan would be determined as a result of the work in the earlier tasks. Under this alternative, the downtown street conditions and parking would remain essentially as they are. This analysis helps to establish a base case of future conditions. The second evaluation would be of the currently proposed Main Street improvement plan, developed by Heacox-Crutcher. This plan envisions aesthetic and other improvements to Main Street including changes in parking and some circulation features. This plan would be analyzed in light of the future traffic and parking demands. The third potential alternative is a circulation and parking plan developed to respond to the issues raised by the two previous alternatives which would seek to resolve any problems related to circulation and parking under future traffic conditions. The composite recommended plan would be subjected to a very thorough traffic operations scrutiny in which all key items would be addressed. These include intersection design and appropriate traffic control and channelization features such as left-turn lanes and multiple through lanes; safety and convenience issues such as diagonal parking versus no parking or parallel parking; potential street closures or realignment of streets; the potential need for one-way stree~s~ the evaluation of driveway impacts on important streets; the need to provide service for emergency vehicles, transit vehicles and delivery vehicles; the need to satisfy pedestrian requirements in the downtown area; and the potential need to balance through traffic requirements versus specific downtown related traffic needs. All of this will be conducted within the framework of maintaining a positive environment in the downtown from the standpoint of access by shoppers and by downtown residents as well as the overall desire to maintain and enhance the physical attractiveness of the downtown area. To deal with these issues, TJKM staff and City staff would work together in developing and evaluating plans on a very specific basis. It is envisioned that the final product would be a plan, perhaps at an overall scale of 1 inch = 100 feet with detailed areas at a I inch = 40 feet scale which would show specific street intersection striping, parking and control issues. TJKM would work with staff to develop the cost and priorities of the key recommendations for the downtown area.