Agenda - Planning Commission - 05/26/2022

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Josh Nyquist, Executive Director of Building OperationsApril28, 2022 PACT Charter School | Traffic Impact Study tğŭĻЊЉ Proposed Development The site of the proposed PACT Charter Schooldevelopmentis generally located north of 161st Avenueand roughly 0.25 miles east of Armstrong Boulevard (see Figure 1).It was assumed that the construction of the proposed development wouldbe completed andfully occupied by year 2028. Access to the proposed site would beprovided at two site access locationson 161stStreet: aprimary (west) site access approximately 600 feet west of Variolite Street(buses, pick-up/drop-off, staff) and a secondary(east) site access approximately 1,150feet west of Variolite Street(buses, student drivers). PACT Charter School is proposing to acquire approximately 18 acres of a larger 33-acre vacant land parcellocated at 7633 161st AvenueNW in the City of Ramsey, with the intent to build a new charter schoolfacility, approximately 115,000 square feet in size. This new facility will be designed to accommodate grades sixthrough twelve. The schools existing campus will then be home to kindergarten through fifth grades.Minor interior renovations are being planned at their existing building to better accommodate these lowergrade levels. The seller is the Church of St. Katharine Drexel and they plan to retain the remainingapproximately 15 acres for a future church development. The proposed development(see Figure 4) consists of the PACT Charter School,a publicschool for grades sixthrough twelve(6-12)to be developed in fivestudent enrollment phases as follows: Phase One: School Year 2022-2023-392 Grade6-12studentsenrolled Phase Two: School Year 2023-2024-517 Grade6-12students enrolled Phase Three: School Year 2024-2025-596 (potentialincrease to637) Grade6-12students enrolled Phase Four: School Year 2025-2026-675 (potential increase to 728) Grade6-12students enrolled Phase Five: School Year 2026-2027-734 (potential increase to 790) Grade6-12students enrolled PACT Charter School anticipates most of its student population will use provided school bus transportation. PACT anticipates 60percentof the students will utilize 12-14 traditional, yellow, full- sizeand short buses for school transit at this time. PACT anticipates 25percentwill be parent drop- off/pick-up and the remaining 15percentwill be student drivers.PACT operations will include a 9- month academic calendar from August 31st to May 27th withhours of operations between 7:30AM to 4:00PM. Student drop-off/pick-up periods will bebetween the hours of 7:30AM to 8:00AM and 3:05PM to 3:35PM, respectively. The first 15-minutes of each period is the peak demand window. The PACT Charter School mayalso generate special event related trips associated with the athletic facilities and diverse academic activities. It should be noted that the number of these special event trips may range widely depending on the event and that these trips are not regularly occurring trips. Therefore, these special event trips were not considered normal weekday activity and were not included in the traffic forecasts and analysis for the PACT Charter Schooldevelopment. The proposed development also includes the Church of St. Katharine Drexel -6.5 acres on southeast corner, approx. 400parishioners (current facility seats 250 and only reaches capacity on Christmas and Easter), Weekend and mostly on Sunday, The City has requested the church use to beincorporated in thetraffic impact study.Access to the church site would be provided at the shared primary site (west) access. The .