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LAW OFFICE OF KARA E, GRANT RK 15528 Page 3 TRAFFICFiRANSPORTATION REVIEW The traffic study only reviewed weekday {7-9 am and 4-6 pm} traffic conditions. Express Car Washes actually have their peak traffic generation on Saturdays at approximately 1:00 pm or 2:00 pm. Also, the commercial area around the site would have significant traffic conditions on a Saturday. Therefore, the traffic study needs to perform a Saturday traffic analysis and utilize typical trip generation for an Express Car Wash during those timeframes. RK has collected substantial trip generation data for Express Car Washes in Santa Ana which are shown in the attached Table 4-1. The Saturday trip generation is 50% higher on Saturdays than during the weekday conditions. Therefore, a Saturday traffic analysis is required. 2. The near -term traffic conditions evaluation in the revised traffic study was for the Year 2019- This is not a realistic timeframe, since it is nearly the last quarter of Year 2019. Since the project has not yet been approved and would need a period for construction, a much later time -frame needs to be evaluated for near -term conditions. An Opening Year of 2020 or 2021 is more realistic. 3. The traffic study took a trip credit for the traffic from the existing sit-down restaurant building that is on the site at 301 North Tustin Avenue. This would only be valid if the restaurant was in full operation when the traffic counts were taken. The restaurant is currently closed. This needs to be verified and the trip credit cannot be utilized if new traffic counts are taken to reflect 2419 conditions. 4. The site plan shown on page 3-68 (Figure 2-2) includes a full driveway access on North Tustin Avenue. This driveway is located approximately 240-feet from the intersection of Tustin Avenue at 41" Street. This distance appears to be too close to allow this driveway to be a full service access with all turning movements, since it would interfere with the northbound left turn pocket on Tustin Avenue. 5. The traffic counts mentioned on page 3-72 were taken in October of 2016, The revised traffic study was prepared in 2019; therefore, it has been three years since the traffic counts were taken in 2016, The traffic study should have been updated with more current traffic counts in 2019 to reflect existing conditions. 6, There is no explanation on what the existing project "re-route" was for as shown on page 3-73 and 3-74 (Figures 3-2 and 3-3). What has caused the re-route of traffic? f'ft� amirreering WW��hh33 enu0. �c. 75A-69