For Transportation Commission Meeting [August 7, 2019]
TO: Honorable Chairperson and Commission
APPROVAL: Sean Grayson, Acting Public Works Director
FROM: Azzam Jabsheh, P.E., T.E., Associate Civil Engineer
Title
Focused Traffic Impact Analysis - Truck Parking/Storage on the South Side of Jurupa Avenue at the Southwest Corner of Lilac Avenue.
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BACKGROUND:
On May 17, 2018, the Consultant Engineer submitted a county scoping agreement for the project, which is in the County of San Bernardino (County) area just west of the Rialto City limits. The City of Rialto (City) provided comments on the scope and a revised scoping agreement with the County was submitted for Rialto review on June 14, 2018. It was followed by a TIA prepared for the County on March 4, 2019. The City completed a review of the TIA and sent comments on March 6, 2019. The County notified the City that the City comments were included in the County review of the TIA. The project is the development of an 8.89-acre parcel with a 500 square foot office building, 6 passenger car parking spaces and 143 semi-truck/trailer parking spaces. Completion date is estimated to be 2020.
The site location is shown on Page 3 of the TIA in Figure 1, which is included as Attachment 1, while the site plan is shown on Page 4 in Figure 2 of the TIA, which is included as Attachment 2.
The site will have one (1) driveway onto Lilac Avenue. The driveway was analyzed as full access. The driveway onto Lilac Avenue is dimensioned as 60 feet wide and provides for truck and passenger vehicles. The driveway is shown with radius returns. There are proposed gates to the truck parking areas and they are set back from the street but not dimensioned. It appears the larger truck parking area may be designated for a single user while the smaller area may be planned for mixed usage on an availability basis.
The ITE Trip Rate Manual does not have a truck parking facility listed so the trip impacts were es...
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