Moxon Records Request
City of Yelm
Community Development Department
105 Yelm Avenue West
P.O. Box 479
Yelm, WA 98597
December 20, 2006
Keith Moxon
Buck & Gordon, LLP
2025 First Avenue, Suite 500
Seattle, WA 98121-3140
Dear Keith:
This is in response to your public records request submitted via email on December 20, 2006, regarding the ongoing preparation of a Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed
Thurston Highlands Master Planned Community. You requested records relating to the development of the transportation section of the Draft EIS, noted in your request as a Traffic Impact
Analysis.
After discussing the records request with the City’s Transportation Consultant, Perry Shea of Shea & Carr, I estimate that it will cost between $1,500 and $2,000 to fulfill the request
and anticipate that it will take until January 19, 2007, to gather all available records that are responsive to your request. The anticipated cost is based on Mr. Shea’s estimate that
it will take approximately 12 hours of time for his staff and sub-consultants to prepare the response and based on Shea & Carr’s standard billing rates pursuant to their on-call agreement
with the City.
In response to your specific requests for records, I offer the following summary of what will be provided.
All documentation for the travel forecast model development effort including:
The Traffic Analysis Zone structure for the defined sub-area.
This will be provided in the form of a map in Adobe Acrobat portable document format.
The land use tables by zone for population and employment estimates for the base year and future year of analysis.
This will be provided in the form of a spreadsheet in Adobe Acrobat portable document format and can also be obtained from the EMME/2 data addressed below.
The defined road network for the base year and the alternative road networks for the future year analysis.
This will be provided in the form of a map in Adobe Acrobat portable document format. I would caution that, as part of the development of the Draft EIS, a number of road networks will
likely be reviewed, many of which will not be discussed as part of the Draft EIS. This review of alternatives
will generate work products that are draft in nature, will not be relied upon in a published document, and will not be subject to public disclosure pursuant to Section 42.56.208 RCW.
The TAZ centroid connectors to the road network.
This will be provided in the form of a map in Adobe Acrobat portable document format.
The method of developing the external travel projections at the edge of the sub-area and the results.
This will be completed as part of a technical memorandum to be part of the background information published as part of the Draft EIS, but is not complete at this time. There is no record
that currently meets this request.
The base year traffic volume data used to calibrate the model.
This will be provided in the form of a map in Adobe Acrobat portable document format.
The calibration results.
This will be completed as part of a technical memorandum to be part of the background information published as part of the Draft EIS, but is not complete at this time. There is no record
that currently meets this request.
The maps and data provided to Transportation Engineering NorthWest showing the alternative networks and travel demand results on the roadway links in the sub-area.
This will be provided in the form of maps in Adobe Acrobat portable document format.
EMME/2 data bank with all the scenarios and trip tables used for the TIA analysis.
This will be provided on CD ROM or DVD ROM in the native data format of the EMME/2 software.
Typically, the City would not begin preparation of such a extensive records request without a deposit in the amount of the total anticipated costs. However, by copy of this letter,
I am directing Shea & Carr to begin work towards fulfilling your records request and expect that you agree to cover any charges incurred by the City to fulfill the request. If my understanding
is mistaken, please contact me as soon as possible so I may limit the City’s expenditures to fulfill your records request.
If you have any questions regarding this matter, please don’t hesitate to contact me, although I will be out of the office from December 21, 2006, to January 2, 2007. In my absence,
you should contact Tami Merriman, Associate Planner.
Sincerely,
Grant Beck, Director
Department of Community Development