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classification map. It is currently developed with 2 travel lanes in each direction, landscaped medians with turn pockets, sidewalks, street lights, curbs and drainage controls. The posted speed of Hilyard Street is 30 mph. The Amazon multi-use path runs adjacent and parallel to Hilyard Street on the west the vehicular way. The Amazon Path transitions into a wide sidewalk along Hilyard Street at approximately the intersection of Hilyard Street and 32nd Ave. The site is bounded to the south by the public right of way of 32nd Ave. 32nd Ave is classified as a local street. It is currently developed with a travel lane in each direction, traffic calming measures (speed humps), sidewalks, street lights, curbs and drainage controls. The intersection of 32nd is also channelized with strip left and right turn movements. The posted speed of 32nd Ave is 25 mph. All abutting streets are developed to urban standards. The site currently has 3 points of access to the public street system. Two along Hilyard Street and 1 along 32nd Ave. The application proposes to keep the northerly driveway on Hilyard Street and the access to 32nd Ave. The proposed driveway on Hilyard Street will be shifted slightly to the south. The driveway will be right in right out operation created by the presence of the existing raised landscape median in Hilyard Street. The slight shift to the south will enhance and reinforce the access restriction. The traffic study did not identify any operational or safety issues with the proposed driveway location to Hilyard Street. The proposed access to 32nd Ave is located at the extreme east side of the development site and located the furthest distance from the Amazon & 32nd Ave intersection as possible. The proposed driveway will be full access with no restrictions. The traffic study did not identify any operational or safety issues with the proposed driveway location to 32nd Ave. The application proposes to close the 2nd driveway on Hilyard. The proposed driveway locations are in conformance with the access management standards established by EC 7.408 through 7.420. The proposed parking lot provides efficient internal circulation routes and minimizes the need to utilize the public street system for circulation. Queue lengths are not excessive and do not have a negative effect on the safety and operations of the adjacent public street system. The proposed development will generate 57 trips during the AM peak hour of the adjacent street and 132 trips during the PM peak hour of the adjacent street. PM Peak hour of the adjacent street is the approved analyses period for the study area per the approved TIA scope of work. AM peak hour of the generator and AM peak hour of the adjacent street trip generation was provided in a supplement memo was provided to address the discrepancy of not including any AM analyses during the AM peak hour of the adjacent street. This is due to the low trip generation rate for the proposed uses during the AM peak hour of the adjacent street. The 57 trips did not warrant any off-site analyses in the study are due because they did not exceed the 50 trip threshold for warranting additional analyses. Therefore AM level of service analyses was not required. The applicants engineer provided level of service analyses for the approved study area intersections, during the approved analyses periods in accordance with the standards of Traffic Impact Analysis, ITE methodology and the Highway Capacity Manual analytics. . Traffic counts, trip generation, distribution and assignment were all performed in accordance with project scoping, Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) standards 4