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Community Development Agency, Long Range Planning Division, recommending the Board consider the following:
1) Receive and file the Green Valley Road Corridor Analysis Study; and
2) Consider the report’s findings and recommendations during major update to the Capital Improvement Program and Traffic Impact Mitigation Fee Program. (Est. Time: 45 Min.)
FUNDING: General Fund.
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Fiscal Impact/Change to Net County Cost
No Fiscal Impact or change to Net County Cost. Funding was included in the Community Development Agency, Long Range Planning Division's Fiscal Year 2013-14 and 2014-15 budgets to finance the study.
Background
The Green Valley Road corridor has been the subject of public inquiries and discussions during open forum at Board hearings and discussions at the El Dorado County Transportation Commission.
At the March 18, 2014 the Board approved and authorized the Chair to sign an Agreement for Services with Kittelson & Associates (Kittelson) to prepare a study analyzing current conditions and providing potential mitigation for the Green Valley Road Corridor from the County line to the Lotus Road intersection. Kittelson was given the notice to proceed on March 24, 2014.
Kittelson worked with County staff to receive existing data that had been compiled for the Green Valley Road corridor. Kittelson collected road segment counts, intersection AM and PM peak hour turning movement counts, field reviewed the entire corridor with the County Community Development Agency Traffic Superintendent, collected sight distance measurements at all the intersections and 36 private driveways, commissioned a noise study for the corridor, and collected origin-destination (O-D) survey data using BlueMAC technology.
Once Kittelson had collected all the data, the analysis began. This included identification of crash types and causes, identification of operational deficiencies, research for potential funding sources, and summarizing all the findings into technical m...
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