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Memorandum
City of Springfield..
Subject:
Septemb,er 21,2006
Andy Liinbird, Planner U
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 (southwdt corner of
. Gateway Street and Game Farm RO<id East. Approval of this proposal would allow construction
. of an eight~story, 16l-room, all-suites hoteL The site is bounded on the north by Game Fann
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 lo:cal 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 perfonnance 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 Fann Road East
.' Gateway Street @ Kruse Way
. Beltline Road @ Gateway Street
,. Beltline Road @ Hutton Street
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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 irriprovements,
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
detennine'the major design elements of these improvements.
jAS a result of the above described circumstances the existing arrangement of streets and
. driveways serv'ing the site is considered temporary, and the future arrangemen't of the~e 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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