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124 <br /> Emerson Waldorf School <br /> Traffic Impact Analysis <br /> crossings. This improvement will allow for all vehicular queuing to occur on-site. <br /> It should be noted that, for purposes of analysis, it was assumed that all parents <br /> picking-up / dropping off students in the 5th — 12th grade will use this vehicular <br /> path. This represents a "worst case" scenario for future queuing projections. In <br /> actuality, all parents picking-up / dropping-off high school students (only) will <br /> enter / exit the site via Site Driveway 3 and will never enter the queue storage <br /> lane. Only when parents have students in both the lower school and high school <br /> will they use the queue storage lane to access pick-up / drop-off. <br /> The older student (5th grade and higher) pick-up / drop-off location will be <br /> relocated to the southernmost parking lot. The equivalent of approximately three <br /> parking spaces will be provided for parents just west of Site Driveway 1. As <br /> previously discussed, vehicles will enter via Site Driveway 3, pick-up / drop-off <br /> students, and exit via Site Driveway 1. There is approximately 400 feet of on-site <br /> queue storage with the proposed expansion. With a projected MSTA queue <br /> length of 350 feet, adequate on-site storage will be available for queued vehicles. <br /> 1 <br /> Staff members are projected to arrive on-site prior to vehicular queuing in the AM <br /> peak hour and leave the site after vehicular queuing in the PM peak hour. Early <br /> Childhood and High School teachers will use the northwestern most parking lot j <br /> and will enter and exit the site via Site Driveway 3. Teachers for Grades 1 — 8 <br /> will enter the site via Site Driveway 3, turn south through the queuing lane, and <br /> park in the southernmost site parking lot. After school, these teachers will leave <br /> the site through Site Driveway 1. <br /> Several future MSTA calculator spreadsheets were created to help route traffic <br /> through the site. An overall spreadsheet was created to show all future trips <br /> (summarized in Table ES-1 above). A second spreadsheet was created <br /> accounting for the Early Childhood student population (55 students) and staff <br /> (assumed 7), high school student drivers (23 students), and high school staff <br /> (assumed 11) which will enter / exit the site via Site Driveway 3. A third <br /> spreadsheet was created accounting for the proposed students in Grades 1 — 4 <br /> (115 students) that will park in the parking lot located between Site Driveways 2 <br /> and 3. These trips will enter the site via Site Driveway 3 and exit the site via Site j <br /> Driveway 2. A fourth spreadsheet was created accounting for the proposed <br /> students in Grades 1 — 5 (100 students) and Grades 9 — 12 (57 students) being <br /> picked-up / dropped-off and Grades 1 — 8 staff members parking in the <br /> southernmost parking lot. These trips will enter the site via Site Driveway 3 and <br /> exit the site via Site Driveway 1. <br /> Future Conditions — Off-Site <br /> The directional traffic patterns, or trip distribution, of the (net) site generated <br /> traffic was determined based on existing off-site travel patterns. Based on traffic <br /> data collected by SEPI, 51% of the projected trips will approach / depart the site <br /> ES-7 1/ .. <br /> `vc I'4t 4f R1 iWlY4!¢ <br />