HomeMy WebLinkAboutExhibit P_TIA Exempt Area Expansion Memorandum9-09-164
1W Public Works
Engineering
Memorandum
Date: March 18, 2019
To: Gabe Flock, Senior Planner
From: Matt Rodrigues, City Engineer
Subject: Expansion of the TIA Exempt Area to Include the EWEB Site.
In 2013, the City Council established the boundaries of the EC 9.8670 Traffic Impact Analysis (TIA)
Exempt Area to include the Downtown Plan area, except for the property owned by EWEB. At that time,
the EWEB site was not serviced by a gridded street pattern and the potential redevelopment was
unknown. Public Works advised at that time that the expansion of the TIA Exempt Area should not
include the EWEB site.
Several actions have taken place which justify now including that property within the boundaries of that
TIA Exempt Area.
(1) Approximately 16.5 acres of EWEB property (most of the site except for the Headquarters
Buildings and parking areas serving those buildings) have been acquired by the City's Urban
Renewal Agency (URA). The URA and a developer - Williams/Dame & Associates - have
created a development plan for that property which identifies parcels, a street network and
uses for the parcels. That plan has been reviewed by the City Council, which then initiated in
July of last year a local improvement district (LID) to create those streets and related
infrastructure to enable the development plan to become a reality. The Council subsequently
has reviewed the progress of that LID and has approved motions moving the infrastructure
into the design and initial construction phases. Funding has been identified to complete the
infrastructure.
(2) In 2017, the Council adopted a new Transportation System Plan. As part of that adoption, the
Council lowered the level of service (LOS) citywide to level E. (Downtown is LOS F.)
(3) As part of the work preceding the Council's previous approval of the existing S-DR zoning and
the EWEB Riverfront master plan, a traffic analysis was undertaken. That study concluded the
uses allowed by the plan would result in a transportation system that operated above LOS
performance requirements. The specific uses now contemplated under the plan noted in
paragraph (1) above are similar to those that were analyzed during the prior traffic analysis.
Based on the above, it makes sense to expand the TIA Exempt Area to include the EWEB site. We now
know that there will be a street network, and the City is in control of the design and construction of that
street network. The Council has initiated the LID for that network. The work has begun. The uses that
will be supported by that network are also now known. For these reasons, I recommend expanding the
TIA Exempt Area map (Map 9.8670) to include the land acquired by the URA (noted in paragraph (1)
above) along with the remainder of the EWEB site (Headquarters Buildings related parking areas). A
copy of the map with the proposed additional area is attached to this memo.
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