St. Elizabeths FEIS Appendices
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General Services Administration and Department of Homeland Security THE DHS HEADQUARTERS CONSOLIDATION AT ST. ELIZABETHS FINAL SUPPLEMENTAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT APPENDICES E-H WASHINGTON, DC AUGUST 2020 APPENDIX E Draft Transportation Management Plan U.S. Department of Homeland Security Headquarters at St. Elizabeths West Campus Master Plan Amendment 2 Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement Transportation Management Program Final Version August 2020 Prepared by Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. Prepared for U.S. General Services Administration Docum ent Ti tle ST. ELIZABETHS WEST CAMPUS MASTER PLAN AMENDMENT 2 SUPPLEMENTAL EIS TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT PROGRAM U.S. Department of Homeland Security Headquarters at St. Elizabeths West Campus Master Plan Amendment 2 Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement Document Title: Transportation Management Program Revision: Final Version Date: August 2020 Client Name: U.S. General Services Administration Project Manager: Paul Kohler Author: Shankar Natarajan, George Lu Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. 2411 Dulles Corner Park, Suite 500 Herndon, VA 20171 United States T +1.703.376.5000 F +1.703.376.5010 www.jacobs.com © Copyright 2019 Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Jacobs). The concepts and information contained in this document are the property of Jacobs. Use or copying of this document in whole or in part without the written permission of Jacobs constitutes an infringement of copyright. Limitation: This document has been prepared on behalf of, and for the exclusive use of Jacobs’ client, and is subject to, and issued in accordance with, the provisions of the contract between Jacobs and the client. Jacobs accepts no liability or responsibility whatsoever for, or in respect of, any use of, or reliance upon, this document by any third party. ST. ELIZABETHS WEST CAMPUS MASTER PLAN AMENDMENT 2 SUPPLEMENTAL EIS TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT PROGRAM EXECUTIVE SUMMARY A Transportation Management Program (TMP) is an employer’s active program to foster more efficient employee commuting patterns. A TMP is required as part of a Federal agency’s planning submittal for undertaking any project that will increase the number of employees on a worksite to 500 or more (both existing and proposed), and is encouraged for a project that increases employees by 100 or more. It includes specific strategies to encourage changes in employee travel mode, trip timing, frequency and length, travel routes to reduce traffic congestion and improve air quality, and offers the benefit of reduced demand for parking spaces. Under a current proposal by the General Services Administration (GSA), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Headquarters will be relocated to and consolidated at the historic campus of the St. Elizabeths Hospital. Without an effective TMP to address this action and manage impacts to the surrounding community and roadway network, the consolidation could adversely impact employee retention and work productivity, agency operations and community relations, and the operation of the local and regional transportation system. The primary purpose of GSA’s action is to develop 5.7 million gross square feet (gsf) of secure office space, plus associated parking, in Washington, District of Columbia (DC or District), to accommodate the consolidated headquarters of DHS and its components in accordance with the DHS mission requirements and housing plan. The need for this action is based on DHS’s need to consolidate a minimum critical mass of 5.7 million gsf of secure office space, plus parking, to meet DHS’s mission requirements and to develop a more cost-effective, efficient, and functional real estate portfolio in the National Capital Region. Further, the current scattered DHS office locations hamper the effectiveness of its mission. This extreme dispersion results in significant inefficiencies in daily operations, and these inefficiencies are magnified considerably at the most important moments—when DHS must act as a nimble and integrated team responding to significant natural disasters or terrorist threats. Background GSA has prepared a Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), to assess impacts to the proposed amendment (Master Plan Amendment 2) to the 2008 DHS Headquarters Consolidation Master Plan (henceforth referred to as the Master Plan) at St. Elizabeths. The Master Plan was amended in 2012 (Master Plan Amendment 1), to specify development on the St. Elizabeths East Campus (East Campus) North Parcel to house the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The proposed Master Plan Amendment 2 eliminates development on the East Campus and reevaluates development on the St. Elizabeths West Campus (West Campus) to accommodate 4.1 million gsf of secure office and shared-use space and 1.6 million gsf of associated parking on the West Campus only. The Draft and Final EIS documents for the Master Plan Amendment are tiered from the Master Plan and EIS/Record of Decision (ROD), which addressed plans to consolidate 3.8 million gsf of secure office and shared-use space, plus parking, on the West Campus. As part of that Master Plan, GSA also assessed, on a programmatic level, DHS development on the East Campus, as well as concepts for transportation improvements at Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE, improvements at the Firth Sterling intersection, a new West Campus Access Road, and interchange improvements at TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT PROGRAM ES-1 ST. ELIZABETHS WEST CAMPUS MASTER PLAN AMENDMENT 2 SUPPLEMENTAL EIS TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT PROGRAM Malcolm X Avenue. The more recent 2019 Draft Supplemental EIS focused on the redevelopment associated with the consolidation of DHS Headquarters on the East Campus North Parcel and a more comprehensive and detailed evaluation of transportation improvements required for the DHS consolidation that were considered in the 2008 EIS. The Proposed Action, action alternatives, and No Action Alternative are studied in detail in the 2012 EIS and Master Plan Amendment 1. As a condition of approval of the Master Plan by National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC), the consolidation must comply with the prescribed parking ratios contained in the NCPC Comprehensive Plan (2016). The goal of the parking ratios is to reduce the overall traffic in the region, and thereby improve air quality, by limiting the number of vehicles Federal employees use to commute to work. By capping the number of parking spaces, Federal employees will have to make alternative arrangements (for example, carpool, use mass transit, and telecommute), to get to work. As per the NCPC Comprehensive Plan (2016), the preferred alternative must achieve a 1:4 employee parking ratio (one parking space per four employees) for the 13,750 standard daily employees, and a 1:3 employee parking ratio for the 750 shift employees (for a total of 14,900 employees) to be relocated to the Campus. This requirement results in a total of 3,688 parking spaces (3,438 for standard shift employees and 250 for shift employees). About 78 spots are allocated to cater to an estimated 400 support employees. Visitors and official (pool) vehicle parking will be accommodated by a 685-space lot, separate from employee parking. A total of 4,448 parking spaces will be provided in the campus. This document outlines the TMP for the planned DHS Headquarters consolidation at the West Campus in Washington, DC, and has been prepared pursuant to NCPC’s requirements. It addresses the transportation challenges and opportunities associated with the DHS Headquarters consolidation. Through the strategies described in this document, DHS strives to gain employee acceptance and support for a transportation program that encourages use of transportation alternatives other than driving single-occupant vehicles to the campus, thereby minimizing the impact of the consolidation on the local transportation network and surrounding community as well as individual employees. As a companion document to this TMP, the GSA has reevaluated the transportation improvements required for the DHS Headquarters consolidation in the 2012 EIS. Much of the transportation analysis summarized in this TMP is presented in more detail in the 2019 Department of Homeland Security Headquarters at St. Elizabeths Master Plan Amendment 2 Supplemental EIS Transportation Technical Report (TTR) (under separate cover). Note, the traffic analysis related to the TTR and TMP performed for the St. Elizabeths West Campus Master Plan Amendment 2 assumed an occupancy of up to 17,000 employees, 12,800 available seats, and a total of 4,058 proposed parking spaces. After this analysis was performed, a change in DHS components assigned to the campus resulted in a change in occupancy numbers and workplace management strategies for the campus. The revised employee population for the campus is 14,900, with an up-to 1:1 employee-to-seat ratio, dependent on the workplace management strategy for each component, and 4,448 parking spaces. With a new proposed occupancy count of 14,900 and parking count of 4,448, this traffic analysis can no longer be considered as a conservative estimate of traffic demand to the local networks; however, the results from this traffic analysis are a good representation of the anticipated effects to the local transportation networks. As program, mission, and employee requirements evolve over the various ES-2 TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT PROGRAM ST. ELIZABETHS WEST CAMPUS MASTER PLAN AMENDMENT 2 SUPPLEMENTAL EIS TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT PROGRAM phases of DHS consolidation