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Staff feels the traffic being experienced with the transport of materials and equipment between . these two sites is due to a construction contract, which requires utility installation both on CR 5 and on Variolite and Armstrong. This traffic is anticipated to cease with the completion of this utility work. Future construction traffic associated with the infrastructure and building construction within these subdivisions are anticipated to primarily utilize CR 5 for Brookfield and Variolite for Sweet Bay Ridge Staff indicated the City had received a petition from the Welcomes Road Neighborhood for certain issues associated with the road. One request was for traffic counts before and after the road is paved. Counts were taken on Friday and Monday; the amount of traffic on those two days was 121 vehicles per day and 153 vehicles per day. Motion to direct staff to delay the opening of Welcome's Road until the watermain construction on the west side of Welcome's Road is complete. Action: Ratify the recommendation of the Public Works Committee. Case #2 Discussion of Traffic Concerns in the Elmcrest Park Area Background: . Within the past several months the City has received complaints relating to outside traffic using neighborhood streets to access Elmcrest Park where increased park activity has generated additional traffic. Notification that this topic was to be discussed at this meeting was mailed to individual property owners. Although the main vehicular access point to Elmcrest Park is from Quicksilver onto 167th A venue, the park has a public access to the neighborhood to the west at 163rd Lane. The design of the parking lot allows park traffic to enter and leave through either of these access points. Increased use of the park has caused the neighborhood to note an increase in the neighborhood traffic. Traffic counts were taken on four separate dates between June 6 and June 12,2006. The results are included in the Committee's packet. Excluding Friday when there are no organized league activities in the park, these figure shows that the park generated an average of 785 trips daily and that roughly 73% of the trips are using the Quicksilver access and 27% the 165th Lane access. The number of trips generated by the park through the neighborhood ranged from 54 trips on Friday to 248 trips on Monday with an average of 138 trips using the 164Lane access. This traffic appears to use multiple routes for exiting the neighborhood. The traffic counts on the streets surveyed are within the range expected on residential streets. One possible mitigation measure might be the posting of a "No Exit" sign at the west entrance of the park prohibiting westbound traffic onto 163rd Lane. This should realize a 50% reduction in. the traffic through the neighborhood. In fact, it may produce an additional reduction as park' users will become acquainted with the Quicksilver access. However, there may also be negative . consequences associated with this action. Residents from the west neighborhood would be forced to drive several miles to return home when their residence may be only a short distance away. : The enforcement of the restriction may also be difficult and will prompt resident calls to the -102-