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Alan P. Olson, City Planner <br />DEVELOPMENT REVIEW <br />ISSUE #5: ACCESS & CIRCULATION <br />August 3, 1983 <br />#766-767-768 <br />ACCESS ISSUES deal with the following concerns: <br />1. Traffic safety: This affects design and location <br />of driveways, intersections and traffic controls <br />to minimize hazards and conflicting movements. <br />2. ..Adequacy of public streets to handle commercial <br />traffic including volume of cars, pavement <br />condition, axle loadings, lane width and intersection <br />configuration. <br />3. Providing adequate bi-directional access to all <br />business properties. <br />4. Planning to accommodate future development and <br />future highway improvements. <br />EXISTING PROBLEMS in the area include: <br />1. Brown Road: This is a residential collector street <br />which IS not now capable of accommodating commercial <br />traffic. Current traffic count is 1400+ cars per day. <br />a) Construction: 5-ton axle loadinq, oiled <br />based, rural cross section. Pavement is* <br />at best 22 ft wide which is less than 2 <br />full lanes. A minimum 7-ton design is needed for <br />commercial use. <br />Sight Distance: There is a deep dip about <br />600 ft north of Wayzata Boulevard. Northbcpund <br />traffic can not see southbound traffic posing <br />severe sight distance problems, especially for <br />a proposed left-turn access into the McDonald's <br />site just near the top of the rise. <br />Intersection: The steep incline of Brown <br />Road at the intersection with Wayzata Boulevard <br />is hazardous in the winter when icy conditions <br />contribute to cars sliding out into the <br />highway traffic lanes. There have been seven <br />accidents including three personal injury <br />accidents at this intersection in the last <br />2*5 years.