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Mounds View City Council July 24, 2017 Regular Meeting Page 4 2017, in addition to discussions by the Mounds View EDA on May 8 th and May 22nd, 2017, concerning Tax Increment Financing. He reported the Planning Commission reviewed the Preliminary Plat request at their July 19th meeting and recommended approval of the request. Planner Sevald provided the City Council with a c opy of the traffic study and reported the Planning Commission tabled action on the Development Review to their August 2, 2017 meeting. Council Member Meehlhause asked if questions regarding fire access and the pedestrian trail should be held until the Development Review was being considered. Planner Sevald stated this was the case. Council Member Meehlhause questioned what other steps would be coming before the City prior to the “Boulevard” being approved. Planner Sevald stated the Development Review and Final Plat would still have to be considered and approved by the City. Mayor Mueller commented on the traffic study and believed there were some calculation errors. She asked what hours were used for AM and PM peak hours. Ed Tahara, Traffic Engineer with Wenk Associates, reported the AM peak hour was from 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. and the peak PM hour was from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. He stated these hours were chosen based on the fact they had the highest volume of traffic entering and exiting the intersection. Mayor Mueller requested further information on the traffic numbers that flow through the intersection of Mounds View Boulevard and Groveland Road. Mr. Tahara reviewed the peak hour and daily traffic numbers in further detail with the Council. Council Member Meehlhause asked how many trips would be added to Groveland Road based on the proposed project. Mr. Tahara explained 15% of the trips would be generated by the proposed project during the peak hour. Council Member Gunn thanked the applicant for completing a thorough traffic study. She reiterated to the Council that the traffic study would be more of a concern for the Development Review and did not believe the Preliminary Plat should be delayed based on this information. Mayor Mueller opened the public hearing for the Preliminary Plat at 7:00 p.m. Matt Oquist, 8440 Groveland Road, understood the proposed plat would be accessed off of Groveland Road and not Mounds View Boulevard. He questioned how the traffic engineer devised his trip numbers and he anticipated the 60-unit complex would generate more than 30 trips during the AM peak hours. Mr. Tahara stated the trip generation was based on a collection of studies. He explained that his estimates were for the peak hour and noted that not everyone within the proposed complex would leave for work at the same time. Mr. Oquist asked if the peak hour traffic would also be impacted by school buses to and from the property. Council Member Gunn reviewed the bus times for high school, middle school and elementary aged students. She did not anticipate there would be an overlap on the peak traffic