Charrette Briefing Handbook - City of Wayzata

Attachment F
Road 16 are classified a major collector street in the city’s comprehensive plan.
Eastman Lane, a 26-foot wide two lane street that in 1999 and in 2005 had a traffic
volume of 6,100 Average Daily Traffic (ADT). At the current time or in the future
according to the comprehensive plan, Eastman Lane has not been identified
as having capacity deficiencies or transportation issues The comprehensive plan
retains Eastman Lane as a two-lane street. The city’s comprehensive plan shows
Eastman Lane as having an existing bike/walk trail that currently exists as widened,
paved shoulders, as constructed by Hennepin County in 2001. The right-ofway,
easement and implied use is variable from 26 feet in the area of the yacht
club’s west parking lot and sailing center (implied use) to 39 feet adjacent to the
club house (implied use) and 66 feet along the east parking lot (plated right-ofway).
Implied use means that the city or county do not have dedicated or easement
right-of-way, but have used and maintained the street for a number of years
and can continue to use and maintain the street in the future.
Although the 66-foot right-of-way width is typical and the speed is typical of a former
county road, the right-of-way widths, which are within the city’s control and
the speeds, which are controlled by the state, are not typical of a community wishing
to retain small town character. Because speeds are controlled by the state,
the process for reducing the speed limit involves the following: When the city believes
that the existing speed limit upon any street or highway within its jurisdictions
and not a part of the state trunk highway system is greater or less than is
reasonable or safe driving under existing conditions, they may request the state to
authorize, upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation, the erection
of appropriate signs designating what speed is reasonable and safe. If the traveled
speed on the street is less than the posted speed the state may reduce the
speed limit, but if the traveled speed is greater the state may increase the speed
limit. Speed limits can also be reduced by designing the street with traffic calming
measures that are discussed at the end of this hand book.
Traffic, bicycle, and pedestrian safety on Eastman Lane, an identified issue from
the interviews, would be greatly improved by using the methods contained in the
Institute of Traffic Engineers (ITE) publication“ Context Sensitive Street Solutions”.
Part of the ITE publication is included as a “white paper” in this hand book.
Existing Comprehensive Plan Standards for local and collector streets:
Functional Classification Local Street Collector Street (Eastman)
Right-of-Way 50 -80 ft 60-100 ft
Capacity 8,000 to 10,000 ADT 8,000 to 10,000 ADT
Speeds Maximum 30MPH 30 to 40 MPH
The problem with updating Eastman Lane is the amount of right-of way (34 feet in
some locations). Because of this restriction, the city should be encouraged to work
with the railroad to use part of the railroad’s right-of-way for street improvements. A
discussion of street widths, pedestrian amenities, cleaning pollutants from storm water
runoff is provided in an attached “white paper”.
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