For Transportation Commission Meeting [December 1, 2021]
TO: Honorable Chairperson and Commission
APPROVAL: David Hammer, City Engineer
FROM: Justin Schlaefli, Consultant Engineer, TKE Engineering
Title
Traffic Impact Analysis - Fitzgerald Avenue Warehouse Located at the Northeast Corner of Fitzgerald Avenue and Baseline Road
(ACTION ITEM)
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BACKGROUND:
The project proposes the construction of a 45,659 square feet of high-cube warehouse facility at the northeast corner of the intersection of Fitzgerald Avenue and Baseline Road in the City of Rialto with the project opening year of 2023.
Access to the project will be provided via two (2) driveways. The northern driveway on Fitzgerald Avenue will provided full-access ingress/egress to the project. The southern driveway on Baseline Road will provide right-in/right-out access to the project.
Based on the trip generation and trip distribution of the proposed project, and based on discussion with City staff, the report analyzed the following intersections for traffic operations:
1. Fitzgerald Avenue and Driveway 1
2. Fitzgerald Avenue and Baseline Road
3. Driveway 2 and Baseline Road
The first Scoping agreement was submitted in early August 2021 with a second and final scoping agreement submitted in late August 2021. The Traffic Impact Analysis (TIA) was submitted in October 2021, and it was reviewed with one comment related to the study. The comment was related to an updated trip generation reference as the ITE standard reference 11th Edition became available. This didn't result in any changes to the TIA as the new rates were lower than the older rates and a memo to the file documented the change.
Consistent with City of Rialto Traffic Impact Analysis guidelines, study intersections were identified to include freeway interchanges within two (2) miles that were designated to take more than 40% of total traffic from the project & intersections which Project contributed 50 or more peak hour trips. Th...
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