Traffic Assessment for Woodhaven Redevelopment. City of Rome Oneida County, New York. March 2, 2018

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1 March 2, 2018 Traffic Assessment for Woodhaven Redevelopment City of Rome Oneida County, New York Prepared for: City of Rome 198 N. Washington Street Rome, NY Prepared by: C.T. MALE ASSOCIATES 50 Century Hill Drive Latham, New York (518) FAX (518) C.T. Male Associates Project No: Unauthorized alteration or addition to this document is a violation of the New York State Education Law. Copyright 2018 C.T. MALE ASSOCIATES ENGINEERING, SURVEYING, ARCHITECTURE & LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE, P.C.

2 TRAFFIC ASSESSMENT WOODHAVEN REDEVELOPMENT CITY OF ROME TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 1.0 INTRODUCTION PROJECT DESCRIPTION SITE CONDITIONS...1 FIGURES Figure 1 Existing Average Daily Traffic Volumes Figure 2 Proposed Average Daily Traffic Volumes

3 1.0 INTRODUCTION This traffic assessment serves to provide a preliminary assessment of the additional traffic volumes that the proposed Woodhaven Redevelopment project in the City of Rome will place on the road network immediately adjacent to the project site. The roadways included in this assessment include Floyd Avenue at Park Drive and Park Drive to Gansevoort Avenue. The scope of this study compares the existing average daily traffic counts with the projected increase in traffic as a result of the Woodhaven Redevelopment project. 2.0 EXISTING TRAFFIC CONDITIONS The average daily traffic under existing conditions is provided via NYSDOT data. Floyd Avenue is classified by NYSDOT as an Urban Minor Arterial and Park Drive/Gansevoort Avenue is classified as an Urban Major Collector. Both roadways are City owned, two-lane paved roads, with average lane width 18 feet. There is a signalized intersection at Floyd Avenue and Park Drive, where there is a right-turn lane on Floyd Avenue eastbound turning to Park Drive. There are concrete sidewalks on both sides of Floyd Avenue and bus routes along both Floyd Avenue and Park Drive. Figure 1 provides a summary of the average daily traffic. In general, the average daily traffic counts are considered well within the acceptable range of traffic for this classification of roadways. There are no known congestion issues within the study area. 3.0 TRAFFIC GENERATION FOR PROPOSED PROJECT The trip generation estimate is for a weekday and is estimated based upon the Institute of Traffic Engineers Trip Generation Manual, 6 th Edition and is summarized in Table

4 Classification Access off Park Drive Single-Family Housing 79 Senior Townhomes 40 # of Units Unit Table 1 Trip Generation ITE Land Use Code, Page # Average Rate Total Daily Trips Generated Trip Generations Per Dwelling Unit Code 210, Page Trip Generations Per Dwelling Unit Code 253, Page Senior Apartments 1 Trip Generations 100 Per Dwelling Unit Code 253, Page Total Trips to Park Drive 1,243 Access off Floyd Avenue Multi-Family: 10 unit townhomes, 7 buildings 0 Recreational Center 55,000 sf + fields 4 Extended Stay Hotel 36,000 sf 3 40 Trip Generation Per Dwelling Unit Code 230, Page Trip Generation Per Acre Code 460, Page Trip Generation Per Occupied Room Code 310, Page Apartments Trip Generations 130 Per Dwelling Unit Code 220, Page River Focused Commercial Trip Generation Per 1,000 sf Leasable 5,000 sf Area Code 814, Page 1, Total Trips to Floyd Avenue 1,263 Trip Generation Assumptions: 1: Master Plan has 53,000 s.f. of senior living apartments. Assume 100 apartments. 2: Master Plan has 66,500 s.f. of multi-story mixed use buildings with an extended stay hotel. Assume extended stay hotel is one building and the remainder includes 1,000 s.f. apartments. 3: Average size hotel suite 600 s.f. 4: Assume River Focuses Commercial has an ITE trip generation similar to specialty retail center

5 The total amount of weekday trips generated as a result of the Woodhaven Redevelopment project is 2,506. 1,263 of these trips will be directly onto Floyd Avenue, as a result of the northern portion of the development. 1,243 of the trips will be directly onto Park Drive, as a result of the single-family residential and senior living portion of the redevelopment. Figure 2 provides for a summary of the trip generation and the direction of the traffic. Based upon existing traffic patterns, it is assumed that on Floyd Avenue, the new trips generated would be evenly split on Floyd Avenue east and west bound. On Park Drive, it is assumed that 75% of the new trips would travel north towards Floyd Avenue, with 25% traveling south to Gansevoort Avenue, eventually onto E. Dominick Street. 4.0 CONCLUSIONS The proposed Woodhaven Redevelopment project would add a total of 2,506 new weekday trips daily to the local road network, as summarized on Figure 2. This results in an increase of traffic to the road network. The amount of additional traffic on Park Drive and Gansevoort Avenue would be generally attributed to the single-family residential properties and the senior living facility. 932 new trips are anticipated to occur on Park Drive north of the project site and 311 new trips on Park Drive/Gansevoort Avenue south of the project site. This would increase the average daily traffic on Park Drive north of the project from 2,229 average daily trips to 3,161 trips, an increase of 42%. The average daily traffic on Park Drive/Gansevoort Avenue south of the project site would increase from 1,379 daily trips to 1,690 trips, an increase of 23%. The majority of this increase in traffic is associated with the single family residential development, which is actually redevelopment of the former abandoned housing located on these lots. So in fact, the traffic may be considered new as part of the redevelopment, but that traffic was historically present in the past when the air force base was in operation. The local road network has the capacity to accept this increase in traffic given the low existing traffic volumes on this roadway. The amount of additional traffic on Floyd Avenue is noted on Figure 2. This additional traffic includes trips associated with the mixed-use portion of the proposed project site, which will have driveway entrance(s) directly onto Floyd Avenue, just west of the traffic light with Park Drive. Additional traffic will enter onto Floyd Avenue from Park - 3 -

6 Drive, a total of 932 trips associated with this project. The average daily traffic on Floyd Avenue west of Park Drive would increase from 7,243 daily trips to 8,341 trips, an increase of 15%. The average daily traffic on Floyd Avenue east of Park Drive would increase from 6,956 daily trips to 8,053 daily trips, an increase of 16%. The local road network has the capacity to accept this increase in traffic given the low to moderate existing traffic volumes on this roadway. Prepared by: C. T. MALE ASSOCIATES Kathryn C. Serra, P.E. Project Engineer - 4 -

7 Figure 1 EXISTING AVERAGE DAILY TRAFFIC VOLUME

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9 Figure 2 PROPOSED AVERAGE DAILY TRAFFIC VOLUME

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