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Home My WebLink Aboutstaff reportApril 13, 2006 ITEM NO.: 13 FILE NO.: MSP06-01 Name: Master Street Plan Amendment Location: Rahling Road to Rock Creek, Kirk to Wellington Village Road Request: Realign Arterial, upgrade Kirk Road to Arterial, and remove unnamed Collector Source: Robert Brown, Development Consultants PROPOSAL / REQUEST: The request is an amendment to the Master Street Plan with several parts: first the realignment of the Wellington Hills Blvd -- Champlin Drive Arterial; second the reclassification of Kirk from a Collector to an Arterial with the realignment to Champlin Drive; and third the removal of an unnamed collector between Chenal Parkway and Arkansas Systems Drive. Currently Wellington Hills Blvd -Champlin Drive is a north -south Arterial traveling from Kanis Road south of Chenal Parkway to Rahling Road. The request is to disconnect these two roads but keep them both as Arterials. First, Wellington Hills Blvd would travel from Kanis at Rock Creek as now proposed but continue on a more westerly path to align with Arkansas Systems Drive. Arkansas Systems Drive is currently classified as a Collector and travels from Kirk Road to Chenal Parkway. It should be noted that Arkansas Systems Drive continues across Chenal Parkway as a Collector to end at Rahling Road as LaGrande Drive. Wellington Hills Blvd- Arkansas Systems Drive would be a more east -west Arterial. The second part of this realignment is to move Champlin Drive to the west to align with the existing Kirk Road. Kirk is a Collector currently. So the request includes a change in classification of Kirk Road to an Arterial. The result of this change would be a north - south Arterial from Rahling Road to Chenal Parkway. So replacing a north -south arterial (Wellington Hills- Champlin) from Kanis Road at Rock Creek to Rahling Road north of Chenal Drive, one would have an east -west arterial -collector (Wellington Hills- Arkansas Systems-LaGrande) from Kanis at Rock Creek to Rahling Road at Rock Creek and a north -south arterial Champlin -Kirk from Rahling Road north of Chenal Drive to Chenal Parkway east of the west Kanis Road split. The final part of the request is to remove an unnamed Collector from Kirk Road to Wellington Hills Blvd between Chenal Parkway and Arkansas Systems Drive. This Collector had been a continuation of Kanis Road to the east from Chenal Parkway. A section from Kirk Road to Chenal Parkway has already been removed from the Plan. April 13, 2006 ITEM NO.: 13 (Cont.) FILE NO.: MS Thus this is a short segment of road, which no longer provides the connectivity originally intended. The Master Street Plan does not show any bike routes on any of the roads proposed for realignment, classification change or removal from the Plan. Thus the changes should have no impact on the bicycle section of the Master Street Plan. Staff met with representatives of the applicant and discussed the request. Several issues were identified for further review and consideration. There were the spacing of the Arterials versus the spacing standard of the Master Street Plan; possible bottlenecks or choke points along Kirk Road north of Chenal and Arkansas Systems Drive; the intersection designs (Kirk and Chenal & Kirk/Champlin-Wellington Hills/Arkansas Systems in particular); and width of streets — functional design standards. The current alignment of Wellington Hills Blvd -Champlin provides a relief route or alternate for a section of Chenal Parkway projected to be above capacity. It is important that the resulting route alignment also provide this `relief to Chenal Parkway. In addition a portion of Kirk Road just north of Chenal has already been developed so the opportunity for the City to acquire right-of-way and street improvements from developers has been made very unlikely. The suggested new alignments for Kirk -Champlin and Wellington Hills -Arkansas Systems appear reasonable to Staff. With the spacing of Arterials closer than recommended, the intersection designs will be critical to the overall system working. Staff does not believe that the removal of the small section of Collector road would be an issue. If a road were built in this location or a similar one, it would have to be constructed to collector road design standards as a Commercial Street. With the applicant agreeing to take all the added right-of-way and construct the extra road lanes on their side of the road, no additional requirements will be placed on the owners along the east side of Kirk Road with this change. Traffic Engineering will review the proposed intersections. With this review to assure proper traffic movement and that the intersections will not create bottlenecks the new alignments appear to provide a similar traffic flow to the current alignments. The applicant hired a traffic consultant to complete a study of the traffic movements in the area. This was done assuming full build out of the area to the City Land Use Plan (with the proposed amendments on the April 13 agenda). The afternoon peek -hour was used as the highest volume time. The City Traffic Engineer agreed this to use the PM peek for modeling purposes. The model also took current volumes at intersections and increased them to expected volumes in ten years. The model then looked at the projected volumes and assigned the number of lanes each roadway would need and assigned the turning movements at each intersection. This report was provided to Staff on Tuesday April 4, 2006. The applicant and his traffic engineer met with Staff on April 4th and discussed the report. Staff requested PA April 13, 2006 ITEM NO.. 13 (Cont.) FILE NO.: MSP06-01 some changes to the model assumption and a second run of the model to report what changes might result. These changes were to reduce the model assumed number of lanes on Chenal where the applicant had no control and to reduce the size (turning lanes) at some intersections (again because the applicant had no control). The results could move some traffic, which could result in more congestion at other intersections. Staff and the applicant will have to comment on these results at the hearing. Based on an initial review of the number of lanes recommended and the turning movements, Staff believes the new alignments should result in an Arterial network which is as good as the one currently in the Master Street Plan. However the intersection designs, as noted previously, will be critical. Functionally Arkansas Systems Drive should be an Arterial with this layout of streets as well. If this amendment package is approved, the City will need to initiate an amendment for Arkansas Systems Drive. The model does not justify a classification upgrade of the Kirk Road extension. While the volume may justify more than four lanes, the movements do not indicate that Kirk south of Chenal would function as an Arterial. CITY RECOGNIZED NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION PLAN: The application area is within the Rock Creek Neighborhoods Plan area. The Neighborhood Plan calls for the protection and preservation of greenbelts with strict enforcement of the excavation and landscape ordinances. It also calls for the interconnection of the area with sidewalks and other non -motorized vehicle paths. The Plan calls for the completion of Champlin Drive and Villages of Wellington Road to Kanis Road, and construct the intersection of Chenal Parkway and Champlin Drive; fund with a bond issue (build prior to development). The Plan asks that amendments to the Land Use Plan be rare and only with the input of the neighborhood. NEIGHBORHOOD COMMENTS: Notices were sent to the following neighborhood associations: St Charles Community Association and Parkway Place Property Owners Association. Staff has received five requests for information from area residents. STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS: Recommendation will be given at the hearing. 3 ��v,.. _ �, - � s .d '.,��'•: Wil: {s IN Are of Change � '�7 � -�R� _ tib•.. - SIN sas W _ �,In ton hills � �;•,��,,;:` �I'.. :_",�=. err. �;:[•. �(. Legend c s •,'"ti = - - :s. I .. ■ ■ PROPOSED ARTERIAL PROPOSED COLLECTOR Existin Arterial rl: - r .: Existing Collector t M-1 .11 -g .a.S?. 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