Agenda - Planning Commission - 10/01/1996

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2o Therefore, Mr. Rick Keillor of Vanman Companies and Mr. Jim Johnson of Bolton & Menk, Inc. (BMI) have been retained by Lord of Life Lutheran Church to provide the technical expertise and guidance to the Long Range Planning Committee in the development of the Campus Master Plan-Mr. Keillor with respect to the building facilities and Mr. Johnson with respect to access and parking facilities. However, all components of that Master Plan have a strong inter-relationship and must be closely coordinated. This "Traffic Engineering Study for the Lord of Life Lutheran Church Master Plan" will provide design guideline and recommendations on the following traffic issues to be used by the Planning Committee in the preparation of their Capital Improvement Budget or Development Framework/Schedule of the Campus Master Plan: i 1. Trip Generation/Trip Distribution; ' 2. Access; and : 3. Site Improvements including: a) Intersection Geometries; b) Internal Road System; and c) Parking Facilities. TRIP GENERATION/TRIP DISTRIBUTION Lord of Life Lutheran Church is situated on an approximate 35 acre site in the northwest quadrant of the intersection of Trunk Highway #47 and County State Aid Highway #5 (Nowthen Boulevard) in the City of Rarnsey as shown on Exhibit A. The current church facility is served by a singie 24' wide driveway access (1 entering and I exiting lane) onto CSAH ~ at approximately 145th Avenue. On the typical Stmday morning, the approximately 10(K) parishioners attending one of the four (4) regularly scheduled worship services are generating about 1000 trip ends - 500 vehicles coming to church and 500 vehicles leaving after church - based on a counted vehicle occupancy rate of 2 persons per vehicle. That volume occurs primarily between the hours of 7:30 AM and 1:00 PM, but peaks at about 400 trip ends between 9:45 and 10:45 AM which occurs between and overlapping the two (2) largest services at 9:00 AM and 10:15 AM. Based on the below listed membership projections contained in the Vision 2005 Strategic Plan and assuming a continued church attendance rate at appro~qmately 50% of the membership and a continued occupancy rate of 2 persons per vehicle, the following number of.trip ends can be expected each Sunday: TABLE II PROJECTED CHURCH MEMBERSHIP, ATTENDANCE & TRIP ENDS YEAR PROJECTED PROJECTED PROJECTED NO. OF MEMBERSHIP ATI'ENDANCE TRIP ENDS 1995 2161 1000 i000 (Actual) (Actual) 1996 2696 1350 1350 1997 3235 1600 1600 1998 3882 1950 1950 2