City Council Work Session

Chloe Ritterstaffdiet would impact traffic. This is something that we looked at both before the funding application went in and then again after we had the funding we looked at it again. We made some assumptions in our traffic analysis that traffic would grow a little bit, about 5% per year. I'm sorry. Yes, half a percent. much different than 5% through 2033 and that also assumed that the Courthouse Plaza and Willard Sherwood developments would add traffic to the roads and that growth is actually a little bit conservative because what we've seen is traffic growth has been pretty flat or even declining a little bit on University Drive in the last several years so we did have a conservative traffic analysis and that showed that there really wasn't any significant increase in delay with

Speaker 22The 0.5 percent? The 0.5, yeah. Okay. So we did look at whether or not there was capacity to accommodate removing this and doing the road diet. And so that's where we do look at this. We did look at the Shorewood and Courthouse Plaza specifically on top of assuming a year-over-year annual growth rate. And what it shows is that the road can accommodate that. I want to be clear, though, that does not mean that at all times of the day, every day, it is going to flow beautifully. What it means is that overall it can accommodate it. There will still be some times of delay. And so what this project is doing is implementing that vision that was included in that small area plan and in the bicycle plan. So it was not looked at

Alexanderstaffhearing none and then on the 8th we have the taxation items that are brought forward from work session public hearing on the one percent and then land use applications for consideration on gallery at city center and courthouse plaza are scheduled for that time items not required public hearing would be the legislative program and the annual comprehensive a financial report often referred to as the ACFER presented to you on that date.