Willow Glenn Traffic letter
City of Yelm
Community Development Department
105 Yelm Avenue West
P.O. Box 479
Yelm, WA 98597
August 19, 2005
Brian Matthews
Skillings-Connolly Inc
PO Box 5080
Lacey, WA. 98509
RE: Willow Glenn 3
Traffic Analysis Scoping Review
Mr. Matthews:
The City of Yelm has completed the initial review of the proposed traffic scoping letter dated July 12, 2005
The trip generation using 1.01 peak pm trips and 9.57 daily trips per a lot is the industry standard and accepted by the city. Our model has shown a distribution slightly different
from the one used in your letter. Our distribution shows 39% of the traffic will be traveling to the east by SR 507 toward McKenna, 10% to the west on SR 507 toward Rainier, 6% toward
Nisqually Pines and 45% to Lacey by SR 510.
The growth rate for the City of Yelm is 2% for all intersections. The intersections you have proposed to analysis are acceptable to the city with the addition of the intersection of
Canal-Grove-Flume. Please look at the operation of the intersection, site distance and traffic safety. The accident data should be accessible through Washington State Patrol office
as we do not keep these records.
The pipeline projects for the City are as follows:
Tahoma Terra Master Plan Community
Mountain Sunrise - 101 lot Subdivision
Mountain Shadow - 80 lot Subdivision
Oakridge - 43 lot Subdivison
Dotson - 52 lot Subdivision
Burnett Mini Storage
Burnett Estates – 18 lot Subdivision
Green Village - 52 lot Subdivision
Mill Pond Estates – 49 lots
Wal-Mart Commercial Store
I have also included our standard for writing and reviewing a traffic impact analysis in the City of Yelm. When submitting the TIA please include the $500.00 fee for review and processing.
If you have any additional questions or comments please do not hesitate to call or contact me at jimg@ci.yelm.wa.us.
Community Development Department
Respectfully,
Jim Gibson
Development Review Engineer
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