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to I-64, and Winghaven Blvd./Bryan Rd. from I-70 to I-64. Considerable in-fill is taking place north of I-64/U.S. 40/61 from the Missouri River west to Lake Saint Louis Blvd. in the cities of Weldon Spring, O’Fallon, Dardenne Prairie, Lake Saint Louis, and parts of unincorporated St. Charles County. New residential development is occurring in the northern part of the county also on available land in many older and well-established communities. They include areas north and south of Mexico Rd., especially west of Mid Rivers Mall Dr., and north of I-70 from the city of St. Charles west through old O’Fallon to Wentzville, especially north and south of Rt. P. In the Wentzville area development continues all around the older parts of town and south of I-70 along Rt. Z and both sides of Rt. N to I-64. New development has accelerated north of Wentzville from U.S. 61 west to Warren County. Using Census Bureau data as a benchmark and a considerable amount of other data, the Council developed forecasts of population for the St. Louis Region. The latest forecasts are contained in the Council’s report, “Long-Range Population and Employment Projections” prepared in June 2004. It consisted of reviewing historical data from the census for 1980, 1990, and 2000, and then producing a series of projections based on births, deaths, and in and out migration from the St. Louis region. Comparisons were made of these forecasts to the history of the region’s population. Change in population depends on many factors as previously described. Table 1 in Chapter 1 showed St. Charles County’s population grew at 48 and 33 percent from 1980 to 1990 and 1990 to 2000, respectively. During that time the region only grew by about 3 percent. Table 31 below shows the forecasts of population for the region to year 2030. It shows the region’s population will slowly increase at about 10 percent to about 2,700,500 while the county will grow by almost 30 percent to 408,000. This will make it the second largest next to St. Louis County. The number of households will also grow but at a faster rate than the population because the size of households is decreasing. For the St. Louis region households are expected to grow around 18 percent but St. Charles County will grow by 43 percent. The average household size will decline throughout the entire region. B-2. Employment Forecasts Employment growth or decline and its distribution throughout the region has a major effect on all modes of transportation, especially traffic on the region’s highway system. Travel for work has always been a major item used in developing highway traffic forecasts. As a result, estimates of future employment in St. Charles County and for the region were developed for this study. Employment projections, unlike population projections, do not use a baseline of census data. Instead, data is acquired from a number of agencies that provide employment information on persons in the United States and the state of Missouri. In addition, data were collected from various agencies in St. Charles County. Forecasts were then developed using an evaluation process which considered the development outlook and potential for each county in the region. Employment forecasts were developed by the Council for Legacy 2030, and details can be found in the Council’s June 2004 report cited above. 90
Category 2000 Table 31 Population and Households Forecasts St. Louis Region 2005 Estimated St. Louis Region 91 2030 Projected Percent Change 2000-2005 2005-2030 Population 2,482,900 2,522,700 2,770,500 1.6% 9.8% Households 969,200 1,002,600 1,188,600 3.4% 18.6% Avg. HH Size 2.56 2.52 2.33 -3.0% -7.5% St. Charles County Population 283,900 314,400 408,000 10.7% 29.8% Households 101,800 117,400 167,800 15.3% 42.9% Avg. HH Size 2.79 2.68 2.43 -2.8% -9.3% Pop % of Region 11.4% 12.5% 14.7% 9.6% 17.6% For St. Charles County, many factors have contributed to a sizeable increase in employment. They include the amount of available land, the growth in residential development and population, and the expansion and improvement to the major highway network. New employment has followed improvements that are taking place along existing and new highway corridors. Examples are the Rt. 370 freeway from the Missouri River to I-70, improvements to I-70 especially at many of the interchanges, the new Rt. 364 freeway from the Missouri River to Rt. 94, and the upgrading of U.S. 40/61 to I-64 from the Missouri River to I-70 at Wentzville. These and other road improvements allow faster travel on the region’s major highway system and thus attract commercial, industrial, and other development. The most dramatic change has been in the new I-64 corridor from the Missouri River to Wentzville. It has become the “high tech” corridor with many new major employers. East of Rt. 94, additional companies have built in the Missouri Research Park which is on the south side and others including Verizon and Enterprise Leasing have built on the north side. All around the Rt. 94/Rt. K interchange a very large amount of commercial development has sprung up including hotels, restaurants, car dealerships, and other strip commercial, all anchored by CitiGroup and BJC Hospital. At the Winghaven Blvd. interchange considerable development has occurred, similar to that at Rt. 94/Rt. K, anchored by MasterCard. New commercial establishments have developed all around the Rt. N interchange anchored by Wal-Mart, Lowes, Target, and JC Penny to name a few. New commercial development has sprung up around the Lake Saint Louis Blvd. interchange with more coming.
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THE ST. CHARLES COUNTY TRANSPORTATI
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C. Present Land Use Basic inputs in
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Mueller Rd., Elm Point Rd., and Lit
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Interstate highways serve traffic w
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other uses as well. They generally
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Table 4 Average Daily Traffic Volum
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U.S. 67 is a four-lane expressway t
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Rt. N has two major parts which are
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adds to the amount of VMT that is f
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