Agenda - Public Works Committee - 05/15/2012

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Public Works Committee 5. 4. Meeting Date: 05/15/2012 By: Tim Himmer, Engineering/Public Works Title: Consider the Installation of Stop Signs and an In -Street Pedestrian Crossing Sign Near 150th Lane NW and Ute Street NW Background: On April 3, 2012 staff received a petition signed by twelve property owners in the neighborhood near the intersection of 150th Lane NW and Ute Street NW, including three of the four properties that make up the comer lots. They are requesting the installation of stop signs at this intersection, consideration for the installation of an in -street pedestrian crossing at the location of the existing City trail crossing on150th Lane, and reduction of the speed limit on 150th Lane to 15 MPH (see attached maps). Staff has reviewed the signatures and compared them to Anoka County property records, and there appears to be one signature that does not match the property owner as identified in the Anoka County system. There is often a lag in updating the County system once a property transfers, so this may be the case for this particular property, but at this time staff is considering the petition complete with eleven confirmed property owner signatures. City Charter requires the Council to receive all petitions submitted at the next available meeting, so this item was placed on the April loth regular City Council agenda as a consent case and accepted. Traffic related requests such as this are typically forwarded to the Public Works Committee prior to Council action, therefore the item is before you tonight for consideration. The organizer of the petition states that vehicles travel through the area at a high rate of speed, and use these roadways and a way to avoid the traffic signal on Alpine Drive and TH 47. It should be noted that Waco Street and 149th Avenue are Municipal State Aid (MSA) streets in the City's transportation system. Staff has performed a cursory review of the intersection in anticipation of this case and offers the following information. • Accident history - Staff has requested an accident history report for this intersection, along with 150th Lane and Waco Street. The information was not available at the time of case preparation, but should be available for the meeting. • Traffic - twenty-four hour traffic counts were taken on all four legs of this intersection by public works crews on Tuesday May 8th. The police department also placed the speed trailer along 150th Lane for a twelve hour period on April 17th. The peak hour count represents an approximate average value of 10% of the total daily traffic volume, and was found to occurred on 150th Lane between approximately 3 : 3 0 pm and 4:30 pm. The results of this traffic volume study are as follows: u M Ute St Tonto St 1151 st Ave M 150th Ln I1INTERSECTION TOTAL STREET OLEG °DAILY TRAFFIC IIst I1i84 !North 11170 °East 11142 II South 11417 11913 PEAK HOUR TRAFFIC 51 • Sight Distance - The sight line for all approaches to this intersection are good and unobstructed.