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ITEM NO.: 26 FILE NO.: MSP06-02
Name: Master Street Plan Amendment
Location; Labette, John Barrow to Labette Manor
Request: Remove Collector
Source: Doris Wright, John Barrow Neighborhood Association
PROPOSAL 1 REQUEST:
The request is to remove Labette as a Collector from John Barrow Road to
Labette Manor. Collectors connect Local Streets to the Arterial network to
activity centers. They have a secondary function of providing access to adjoining
property. Ideally the spacing of Collectors should be a quarter of a mile and not
be continuous for long distances.
Labette has been on the Master Street Plan for several decades and provides a
connection between the Twin Lakes subdivision and John Barrow Road (an
Arterial). The section under review for removal passes through an area of
non-residential zoning. Thus any street built in this general location would have
the same design standard as a Collector. All Local commercial streets are built
to the Commercial Street Standard, which is the same as a Collector design
standard.
The Master Street Plan does not show any bike routes on Labette. Thus the
requested change should have no impact on the bicycle section of the Master
Street Plan.
Labette is the only collector shown on the Plan from Kanis Road to 36th Street,
west of John Barrow Road. This is a distance of over a mile. As noted earlier
the standard spacing would suggest at least two Collectors should be in place.
Labette has been on the Plan as a Collector for several decades. The portions
currently built are constructed to Collector standards. Thus the current sections
of Labette have the capacity of a Collector not a Local street. Without the
connection, other streets will have to provide this function. These streets will not
have been designed to serve Collector needs and are therefore likely to see road
failures, higher than acceptable traffic volumes and speeds and unsafe
conditions on those roadways.
The connection functioning currently as the `Labette connection' is Labette
Manor -Morris Manor. This road is built as a Local Street and bi-sects an
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apartment complex. In addition a portion of the road is not a public street. That
is, the connection is made using a private street. This is not desirable. First the
street is not designed to function as a Collector (lane width and street curvatures.
Second it bi-sects an apartment complex, which increases potential conflicts with
pedestrians. And third as a private street there are additional maintenance and
access issues.
To not make the connection will require the continued use of a private road as a
public street to connect the Twin Lakes neighborhood to John Barrow Road.
CITY RECOGNIZED NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION PLAN:
The application area is within the John Barrow Neighborhoods Plan area. The
Plan does not have any objectives directly related to the request.
NEIGHBORHOOD COMMENTS:
Notices were sent to the following neighborhood associations: John Barrow and
Twin Lakes "A" Neighborhood Associations. Staff has received one comment
against the change from a property owner along the alignment.
STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS:
Staff believes the change is not appropriate.
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