HomeMy WebLinkAbout2021-12-13 - Southern Truss TIA Reviewkimley-horn.com 101 East Silver Springs Boulevard, Suite 400, Ocala, Florida 34470 352 438 3000
To:Tahir Curry
Associate Planner
St. Lucie County Planning and Development Services
From: Alex Memering, P.E. Alex Campano, E.I.
Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc.
Date: December 13, 2021
Re:Southern Truss
2nd Review of Traffic Impact Analysis
Kimley-Horn has reviewed the Traffic Impact Analysis (revised July 2021) prepared by Engineering Design
& Construction, Inc. related to the above-mentioned project. Please find our review comments below
pertaining to the development’s impacts to adjacent transportation facilities.
1.Please recalculate the daily trip generation assuming that AM peak hour traffic is 10% of daily traffic.
2.Please include the “Southern Truss Companies Trip Distribution” Exhibit 3 as an attachment within
the report.
3.Please update the Kings Highway roadway segments capacity to 2,000 per the FDOT Quality/Level
of Service Tables within the “Trip Distribution & Level of Service Check” table.
4.Please use a minimum 1% growth rate within the “Trip Distribution & Level of Service Check” table.
Additionally, please provide attachments showing how the growth rates were calculated and what
data was used. Please note growth rates can be calculated using FDOT Historical AADT data found
on FDOT Traffic Online, using 5 years of historical data.
5.Please confirm that peak hour project volumes shown within the roadway analysis table reflect
directional project volumes.
6.Please provide an intersection operational analysis for the existing full access driveway on Kings
Highway.
Thank you for the opportunity to assist St. Lucie County in reviewing this project. Please contact us if you
have any questions or need additional information.