Capital Hill PUD Traffic Safety Analysis <br />(Revised) May 17, 2017 <br />parking lane. This queuing effect has been found to be an effective and safe method to <br />reduce speeds and non-local traffic." <br />The list below includes a summary of the benefits of the narrow local residential streets as <br />discussed and documented on page 47 of the Eugene Local Street Plan (August 1996): <br />• Narrow streets cost less to build and maintain. <br />• Narrow Streets reduce the negative impacts of stormwater runoff. <br />• Narrow streets reduce negative environmental impacts of street construction. <br />• Narrow Streets encourage more efficient land use. <br />• Narrow streets increase traffic safety. <br />• Narrow Streets improve neighborhood character. <br />Pages from the Design Standards and Guidelines For Eugene Streets, Sidewalks, Bikeways and <br />Accessways (November 1999) and the Eugene Local Street Plan (August 1996) are included as <br />Appendix A. <br />From the intersection of Spring Blvd to Cresta De Ruta Street, Capital Drive is improved with <br />curbs constructed on both sides of the street and a 2.0-foot wide (nominal) sidewalk constructed <br />on the south/west side of the street to Alta Vista Court. Capital Drive is not currently improved <br />with curbing or sidewalks on either side of the roadway and on street parking is not permitted <br />from the Cresta De Ruta Street intersection to the end of the street at Hendricks Park. Curb is <br />provided on the west side of the road from Cresta De Ruta Street to the top of the hill. <br />Capital Drive provides access to three existing single family residences north of the site's north <br />driveway and is currently unimproved from the north driveway location to the southern <br />boundary of Hendricks Park at the end of the road. Striping is not provided on Capital Drive to <br />delineate travel lanes or curbside parking spaces, although the curb from Alta Vista Ct uphill to <br />Cresta De Ruta Street has recently been painted/repainted yellow to prohibit parking on this <br />section of the road around the vertical and horizontal alignments. Curb to curb measurements <br />indicate that the existing paved surface width varies from roughly 18 feet to roughly 20 feet <br />between Spring Boulevard and Cresta De Ruta Street, and is reduced to 12 to 14 feet in width <br />from Cresta De Ruta Street and north. <br />Figure 1 shows the location of existing sidewalk and the approximate alignment within the <br />studied area and is included in Appendix B. As constructed, Capital Drive does not meet the <br />current City of Eugene standards for paving width and sidewalk construction for a low volume <br />local residential street that would be applicable if a new street were proposed for development, <br />however, the existing roadway has topographical constraints that significantly prohibit feasibility <br />of construction/reconstruction to meet the standard cross section elements and facility widths <br />identified for construction of a new street per low volume local residential street standards. The <br />previously described City of Eugene publications (1996 Local Street Plan, 1999 Design Standards <br />and Guidelines for Eugene Streets, Sidewalks, Bikeways and Accessways, and the current Public <br />Improvements Design Standards Manual) discuss the benefits of a narrow street and allow a <br />reduced street width for a single 14-foot travel lane considered as a "queuing street" for up to <br />750 vehicles per day. The existing sidewalk, where constructed fronting neighboring <br />developments, does not and cannot meet ADA standards due to existing longitudinal slopes on <br />the roadway. The existing roadway construction on cut and fill slopes and the location of <br />existing residences and residential driveways prohibit the reasonableness of widening the <br />roadway to meet the City's minimum standards without encroaching upon existing private <br />© Branch Engineering, Inc. <br />Page 1 4 <br />