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<br />and if that is a concern, you would really have to close Louisville Elementary School if you look <br />at the cross streets of Main and South Boulder Road and the amount of traffic that goes by there <br />everyday. The way the school is envisioned and structured, children will not be riding their <br />bicycles along those streets or walking to this school. Children will be brought in cars on to the <br />property itself and let out into the supervision of teachers and parents. They won’t be in the <br />course of any of the semis unless those semis come into school property, which they do not <br />envision happening. If this were not a school and they brought in a business and they had 300 or <br />400 employees, each bringing their own cars everyday, leaving at lunch time, and maybe bringing <br />in 7 or 8 more semis, more congestion would be created than a school would cause. <br /> <br />Commission Questions: <br /> <br />Commissioner Kalish asked where the students will be coming from. Ms. Kelley replied that it is <br />a public school open to all residence in the Boulder Valley School District. The students would <br />be coming from Louisville, Boulder, Lafayette, Broomfield, Erie, and Superior and assorted other <br />locations. <br /> <br />Commissioner Pritchard asked what the normal evacuation procedure is for Peak to Peak. Ms. <br />Kelley stated that they have the school district’s crises quick guide, which talks about evacuation. <br />At this time they are waiting for the floor plan so that they can do the plan correctly. They will be <br />working with risk management and insurance in the school district to make sure that it fits their <br />criteria. Mr. Pritchard asked how they will get 500 children out of the CTC in the worst case <br />scenario. Ms. Kelley stated that there will be a secondary road that they will be doing also. They <br />will also be working with risk management. Mr. Pritchard has some concerns about this project <br />and does not think it is appropriate facility for this area. <br /> <br />Alex Ariniello, Vice-President of LSC Traffic Consultants in Denver. Mr. Ariniello stated that the <br />counts range from 230 vehicles per day at the end of the street to 1080 at Taylor. It is ranging <br />from 200 to 1000 depending on where you are on the street. Taylor has about 2000 vehicles per <br />day, Pierce has about 5200 vehicles per day. Normally, elementary schools generate about 1 <br />vehicle trip per day per student, which is a national average. A Charter School will have double <br />that rate, so about 2 trips per student, or 700 trips per day coming to the site. What does that <br />mean in terms of a relationship to industrial use? A 35,000 square foot building like this, light <br />industrial use would probably generate in the order of seven to 12 trips per thousand square feet, <br />or 400 vehicles per day. That will be a little bit higher use because of this particular school. The <br />th <br />traffic study will look at the external issues in terms of this CTC development, how it effects 104 <br />and Dillon and the access, whether there will be a need for traffic signals and so forth. <br /> <br />In terms of the queuing analysis, they have looked at that and they recommend that there is a drop <br />off area for at least five vehicles and a queuing area for at least seven vehicles and that some of <br />the parking in front also be used for overflow so that there will not be a stack up on Boxelder. <br />The worse case, there may be as many as 200 vehicles arriving in a 15 minute period during the <br />morning peak hour. <br /> <br /> 12 <br /> <br />