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May 29, 2020 Mr. Thomas Maistros, Jr., RA Project Manager/UD May 29, 2020 Mr. Thomas Maistros, Jr., RA Project Manager/UD Consultant Stull and Lee, Inc. 103 Terrace Street Boston, MA 02120 Mr. Gregory Lickwola Construction Manager Norwalk Housing Authority 241/2 Monroe Street South Norwalk, CT 06854 RE: Traffic Study Proposed Addition to Colonial Village Norwalk, Connecticut MMI #7165-01-01 Dear Messrs. Maistros and Lickwola: At your request, we have undertaken this study to evaluate the traffic implications associated with the proposed residential development expansion of the Colonial Village in Norwalk, Connecticut. Proposed are approximately 69 new apartments within several multi-family residential buildings to be located on a piece of the property north of West Cedar Street that is undeveloped aside from a small parking lot that has access at West Cedar Street just east of and opposite Price Avenue. Also proposed as part of this modest residential expansion is a small community center building for residents of Colonial Village. Primary site access for this 69-unit residential development is to be at West Cedar Street via the existing driveway, with a secondary rear driveway to connect to a separate existing parking lot that is located just east of the apex of the curvilinear Suncrest Road. The work comprising the study consisted of a number of tasks including field reconnaissance, data collection, review of roadway and traffic conditions, estimation of site-development-generated traffic volumes, and assessment of future traffic operations at and near this new 69-apartment development. Figure 1 shows the site location map. EXISTING CONDITIONS The key intersections surrounding the site that have been analyzed as part of this study are: 1. West Cedar Street at the existing parking lot/future main site driveway 2. West Cedar Street at Scribner Avenue/shopping plaza driveway 3. West Cedar Street at North Taylor Avenue (northerly junction) West Cedar Street runs approximately east/west with one travel lane in each direction. The posted speed limit is 25 miles per hour (mph). There are sidewalks along the north side of West Cedar Street and portions of West Cedar Street have on-street parking adjacent to the westbound travel lane. 195 Church Street, 7th Floor, New Haven, CT 06510 | 203.271.1773 | www.MMInc.com CT | MA | ME | NH | NY | VT Messrs. Maistros and Lickwola | Page 2 May 29, 2020 Scribner Avenue runs approximately northwest/southeast with one travel lane in each direction and the posted speed limit is 25 mph. At the four-way intersection of Scribner Avenue at West Cedar Street and the shopping plaza driveway, all approaches are stop-sign controlled. North Taylor Avenue runs approximately north/south with one travel lane in each direction; the posted speed limit is 30 mph. The north junction intersection with West Cedar Street is a t-intersection where all movements are stop-sign controlled. South of the site, Scribner Avenue and North Taylor Avenue connect with U.S. Route 1 (Connecticut Avenue). Land use in this area of Norwalk is primarily residential and commercial. Crash Data Summary Data on traffic crashes near the site for the recent 3-year period of April 1, 2017, through March 31, 2020, was obtained via the Connecticut Crash Data Repository. This crash data repository is jointly run by the University of Connecticut and the Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT) and includes crash data from municipal police departments. This data is summarized in Table 1 by location, crash severity, and collision type. TABLE 1 Crash Data Summary CRASH SEVERITY TYPE OF COLLISION REAR ON - END - - OBJECT - TO - TOTAL TOTAL ANGLE BACKING HEAD REAR DIRECTION DIRECTION FIXED REAR SERIOUS INJURY SERIOUS POSSIBLE INJURY POSSIBLE SIDESWIPE, SAME SIDESWIPE, OPPOSITE PROPERTY DAMAGE ONLY DAMAGE PROPERTY West Cedar Street: INJURY MINOR SUSPECTED At Scribner Avenue 5 5 4 1 5 At Suncrest Road 1 1 3 5 1 3 1 5 Between Suncrest Road 1 1 1 1 and Price Avenue At Price Avenue 1 1 1 1 Between Price Avenue 7 7 2 1 3 1 7 and Technology Plaza Between Cedar Crest 2 2 1 1 2 Place and Ivy Place At Ivy Place 3 3 1 1 1 3 At North Taylor Avenue 2 2 1 1 2 Between North Taylor 1 1 2 1 1 2 Avenue and Taylor Ave At Taylor Avenue 1 1 1 1 TOTAL 0 1 2 26 29 10 1 1 2 1 9 1 4 29 Source: Connecticut Crash Data Repository from April 1, 2017, to March 31, 2020. Messrs. Maistros and Lickwola | Page 3 May 29, 2020 A total of 29 crashes were reported for this segment of West Cedar Street during this period. Approximately 90% of reported crashes resulted in property damage only. The most common collision type was the angle collision, comprising 34% of reported crashes, followed by rear-end collisions at 31%. At the off-site intersections, there do not appear to be any unusual trends in crash history. The segment of West Cedar Street between Price Avenue and Technology Plaza, in the vicinity of the site driveway, experienced the highest number of crashes. Upon review of the roadway conditions, it is importantly noted that there is a small shopping plaza situated on the south side of West Cedar Street with head-in parking spaces that are directly in front of the storefronts, where drivers can pull directly into any of the ten or so spaces from West Cedar Street. Four of the seven crashes that occurred on this segment appear to have involved vehicles entering or exiting this parking lot colliding with westbound traffic on West Cedar Street. This apparent collision pattern appears to be an issue with the shopping plaza parking lot configuration, not with the roadway network or the Colonial Village; none of the collisions appear to have involved vehicles turning into or out of this Colonial Village driveway at West Cedar Street. Existing/Baseline Traffic Volumes Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its overall effect on reducing current travel and traffic patterns, new intersection turning movement traffic counts were unable to be conducted at the study intersections. Instead, baseline intersection peak-hour counts were assembled from recent past data sources that were available. Subsequent to correspondence and agreement with the City of Norwalk Transportation, Mobility and Parking (TMP) Department, pre-COVID-19-pandemic count data for the off-site study intersections was assembled from StreetLight Data – a big-data company that assembles mobility information through smart-device/smartphone geographic movement data. Next, to further calibrate the peak-hour intersection count data gained from StreetLight Data, the counts were compared to the latest available (2017) bi-directional hourly traffic monitoring data in the area from CTDOT. The StreetLight Data intersection volumes where proportionally adjusted as necessary to match the recent CTDOT traffic monitoring data for the weekday morning and afternoon peak hours of 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. respectively. Figure 2 shows the existing/baseline intersection peak-hour traffic volumes that are used in this study. PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT The site of the proposed 69-apartment development is approximately 7.6 acres of largely undeveloped land that is part of the larger 25.7-acre Colonial Village site. The existing Colonial Village contains approximately 200 units, which were built in 1952. Currently, the site of the proposed 69 new apartments is vacant aside from a basketball court in the north portion of the parcel and the aforementioned small existing parking lot in the south portion of the parcel with access via West Cedar Street. This current lot of around 25 parking spaces provides parking for a handful of existing residential units; as part of this development, these spaces are to be relocated nearby within what will be the expanded Colonial Village. Once complete, the proposed development will consist of 18 buildings with 69 total residential units and associated increased site parking. Additionally, there will be the approximately 4,500-square-foot community center for the Colonial Village residents. As mentioned above, the primary access for the new 69 apartments will be via what will be a refurbished driveway at the location of the existing West Cedar Street driveway. As part of this development, on-street parking on West Cedar Street should be prohibited within 40 feet on either side of the site driveway for visibility. Messrs. Maistros and Lickwola | Page 4 May 29, 2020 Sightlines were reviewed for a driver egressing the site driveway at West Cedar Street. Looking right, the driver's line of sight extends over 300 feet along West Cedar Street, meeting the CTDOT guideline of 280 feet for the posted speed limit of 25 mph. Looking left, the line of sight extends to the stop-controlled intersection of West Cedar Street at Technology Plaza, approximately 280 feet, also meeting the CTDOT guideline. It is noted that existing roadway traffic conditions, namely the horizontal curvature in West Cedar Street (west of the site) and the all-way stop control at Technology Plaza (east of the site), limit vehicle travel speeds for eastbound and westbound approaching vehicles, respectively. Therefore, the available sight distances are expected to remain adequate. SITE-GENERATED TRAFFIC Site-generated peak-hour vehicle trips from the proposed 69-unit residential development were estimated using statistical data published by the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE).1 ITE Land Use Code (LUC) #220, multi-family housing (low-rise) was used to estimate the site-generated traffic for the proposed development during the study peak hours; these traffic estimates can be seen in Table 2. TABLE 2 Site Development Traffic Estimates NUMBER OF VEHICLE TRIPS ITE WEEKDAY MORNING WEEKDAY AFTERNOON LAND USE LAND PEAK HOUR PEAK HOUR USE # IN OUT TOTAL IN OUT TOTAL Multi-family Housing (Low-Rise), 69 units 220 7 25 32 25 15 40 Source: Trip Generation, 10th Edition.
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