PARKING LOT DESIGN
C~..L.y CENTER DEVELOPJMtENT CORFOR.A.TION
:a::OPKINS
MINNESOTA.
Date: January 12, 1983
To: City Council
From: Kevin Locke, Executive Director
City Center Development Corporation
Re: Merchants' Parking Lot Committee
A committee to work with the parking lot design firm, consisting of
Jerry Richards, Michael Tait, Doug Weldon, Don Speckal,Eddie Schutz,
Randy Pommerenig, Bob Dilly and Jerre Miller, was formed December 8th
at an open meeting to which all the businesses and property owners
surrounding the parking lots were invited.
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The Committee met December 15th to discuss existing problems with the
parking lots and to prepare a list of design objectives to guide the
parking lot designer. In addition, background information on the
traffic volumes and traffic movements surrounding the parking lots
was discussed. I believe you all have received the background material
and the list of objectives that resulted from the meeting.
The C.C.D.C. Board of Directors reviewed the list of objectives at
it's meeting of January 11, 1983 and recommends that they be the basis
of the actual design for the 10th Avenue Parking Lot.
S1.ncerely,
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Kevin Locke
VOLUNTARY l?R.OGR~ TO"'VVARDS CO:M::M:UNrrY DEVELOl?:M:ENT
crr-y CENTER DEVELOF:bI.[ENT CORFOR.A.TION
:H:OPKINS
MINNESOTA..
Subject:
DeceNber 15, 1982
10th Avenue Parking Lot Des1.gn Committee
Kev1.n Locke
City Center Development Corporat1.on
10th Avenue Parking Lot Design Objectives
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Enclosed is a summary of the overview material we discussed at the meeting
Wednesday (12-15-82) and the list of parking lot problems and design objectives,
which we developed dur1.ng the fleeting.
I am going to pass the list of objectives on to the C.C.D.C. Board (12-28-82)
and ultimately the City as the objectives the committee would like to see
achieved by any improvements to the 10th Avenue parking lot.
The objectives will be given to the firm chosen to design the parking lot
improveNents. They will form the basis for prepar1.ng alternative design
scheNes, which w1.11 then be presented to the Park1.ng Lot Design Committee.
If you have any questions about any of the enclosed materials, the list of
objectives or the next steps l.n the process, feel free to give me a call.
My phone number l.S 935-8115.
Kevin Locke
Director, City Center Development Corporat~on
VOLUNTARY PROGRESS TOVVARDS CO:M::M:UNITY DEVELOP!v.[ENT
TRAFFIC VOLID1F.S
Existing Traffic Volumes on key streets in the vicinity of the 10th
Avenue lots are shown on the attached map. Excelsior Avenue continues
to be the most heavily traveled street in the lmmediate vicinity, with
8700 - 11,000 trips per day. Eleventh Avenue North is the most heavily
traveled ~orth-South street, with 6900 trips per day. Tenth Avenue
carries 3400 trips. No data is available for 9th Avenue, but traffic
levels would be expected to be on the order of 3-4000 trips per day.
Peak traffic on 10th Avenue tends to occur around noon.
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10th AVENUE NORTB TRAFFIC MOVEMENTS
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TOTAL AVERAGE DAILY TRAFFIC: 3000 - 3400
All traffic on 10th Avenue consists of one of these basic four (4) types
of movements:
1. Thru Traffic - traffic that does not stop at any of the
businesses served by the 10th Avenue parking lots.
2. Entering Traffic - trafflc which enters the parking lots
from 10th Avenue.
3. Exiting Traffic - traffic whlch exits from the parking
lots on 10th Avenue.
4. Internal Traffic - traffic which moves between the parking
lots on 10th Avenue.
*Source: trafflc counts on 12-9-82
The vast Najority of traffic on 10th Avenue North is related to the existing
parklng lots. lwo-thirds of the traffic is either entering the lots to park,
exiting the lot after having been parked or floving froN one lot to the other.
Through traffic consists of only one-third of the total - approximately 1000
cars per day. This is a very low volume of through traffic. It is within the
range of traffic volumes you would expect on a quiet residential street. The
lack of through traffic and the dominance of parking lot related trafflc indicates
that 10th Avenue, between 1st Street North and Excelslor Avenue is functioning
primarily as a part of the clrculation system for the 10th Avenue parking lots.
In effect, 10th Avenue, itself, is already a part of the 10th Avenue parking
lots, but serving that functlon very lnefficiently because of the deslgn
characteristlcs of the street, the access points to the eXlstlng lots, and the
deslgn of the lots themselves.
The through traffic on 10th Avenue is very liMited, but does tend to interfere
with the use of the street and the parking lots by people wishlng to park and
shop at the surroundlng stores. Conflicting movements eXlst at the entrles
and exits from the existing lots because of the number of access points that
exist. The fact that some access drlves are one-ways and others two-ways,
and access drlves on opposite sides of the street do not line-up, create
confusion. Furthermore, the street itself discourages East-West pedestrian
Movements and discourages people dOlng business on one-side of the street from
parklng in the lot on the other slde.
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