04-27-1994 Council Agenda - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

Ms. Kathy Glanzer April 3, 1994 Page 2 of the remainder of the traffic desiring to go east on Little Canada Road will utilize the Country Drive access. The development will add approximately 500 vehicles per day to southbound Country Drive at Little Canada Road. The p.m. peak hour volume of 32, however, should not create any operational problems or concerns. Recent counts by Ramsey County on Little Canada Road indicate that approximately 16,000 vehicles per day are near the SuperAmerica site. The SuperAmerica site will add a maximum of 500 vehicles per day. Again, this is not a significant amount of traffic. In addition, the existing land use does generate traffic for Little Canada Road. A rough estimate of traffic volumes for a successful sit down restaurant on the site is approximately 800 vehicles per day. Most of this traffic, up to 75 %, would be site generated traffic drawing traffic to the area rather than diverting traffic already on Little Canada Road. Assuming approximately 50% of the site generated traffic would come from the west, the closing of a successful restaurant would decrease volumes on Little Canada Road west of the restaurant by approximately 300 vehicles. This means the SuperAmerica site will only add approximately 200 new vehicle trips per day to Little Canada Road west of the site. We have also reviewed the onsite circulation based on site plans dated February 13, 1994. Parking is provided in three areas. The four spaces at the corner of Country Drive and Little Canada Road are accessible even with vehicles at the pumps. The parking is somewhat remote from the store and probably would be utilized for employee parking. The four spaces plus one handicap space on the west side of the property are also accessible with vehicles parked at the pumps. In addition, traffic can get to and from the parking spaces with two vehicles waiting to enter Little Canada Road at the driveway. The seven spaces on the north side of this site are also accessible, but would be in front of the dumpster enclosure and on top of the underground storage tanks. These spaces are also accessible with vehicles parked at the gas pumps and should not be impacted by traffic entering or leaving Country Drive. Both the west and north parking spaces will allow pedestrians to access the store without crossing in front of traffic circulating on the site. Cars parked at the gas pumps will not block any circulation onsite. There is potential for some minor interference and for some maneuvering to get to a vacant gas pump area when others are filled. However, it should not be a problem of any magnitude. We also reviewed circulation from both Little Canada Road and Country Drive to the gas pumps and parking area and the return trips. It is possible for vehicles parked at the pumps to make a ti -turn on the site to return to the driveway they entered. We anticipate that this maneuver might be utilized by peak hour traffic which enters the station facing southwest and wishes to return to the Country Drive driveway to get to the traffic signal on Country Drive at Little Page 43