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Memorandum
City of Springfield
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September 21, 2006
Andy Limbird, P.laimer II
Gary McKenney, P.E., Transportation Planning Engineer
DRC2006-00062 - Embassy Suites
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The Transportation Division has reviewed the materials provided with the subject application.
The comments below are provided for your use in preparing the land-use decision.
General
The subject site is a 2.83-acre parcel located at 3530 Gateway Street (southwest comer of
Gateway Street and Game Farm Road East. Approval of this proposal would allow construction
of an eight-story, 161-room, all-suites hotel. The site is bounded on the north by Game Farm
Road East, and on the east by Gateway Street. Abutting land uses are commercial.
Transportation Facilities and Impacts
TransPlan's TSI Roadway Policy # 2: Motor Vehicle Level of Service allows local agencies to
temporarily reduce adopted mobility standards (to below LOS D) for a facility under that
agency's jurisdiction. In anticipation of programmed transportation improvements in the
McKenzie-Gateway area, the City Council has temporarily reduced the performance standard to
below LOS D for the following intersections that would serve traffic generated by the anticipated
hotel development:
· Gateway Street @ International Way
· Gateway Street @ Game Farm Road East
· Gateway Street @ Kruse Way
· Beltline Road @ Gateway Street
· Beltline Road @ Hutton Street
Major improvements to these intersections and connecting streets are programmed for
construction over the next several years. Extensive traffic impacts analyses of this system were
reviewed in conjunction with the regional hospital development proposed on the nearby
RiverBend site. Those analyses have demonstrated that, with the programmed improvements,
transportation facilities serving the development site will provide sufficient capacity to
accommodate development of the hospital site and other McKenzie-Gateway area land -
including the subject hotel site - and meet adopted mobility standards beyond 2018. The
Springfield Public Works Department is now conducting a project refinement process that will
determine the major design elements of these improvements.
As a result of the above described circumstances the existing arrangement of streets and
driveways serving the site is considered temporary, and the future arrangement ofthese facilities
is not known. Thus, there is no rationale for imposing conditions of approval that would require
the applicant to substantially alter the existing facilities.
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