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December 5, 2019 <br />Page 2 <br />TRIP GENERATION <br />The Institute of Transportation Engineers has published the Trip Generation Manual, <br />Tenth Edition in 2017. Estimates of trip generation for various land use types can be <br />made using the rates and equations in the manual. Nevertheless, there are currently no <br />trip generation rates and equations for online vehicle auction lots and resale/ <br />remarketing yards. (NOTE: The closest ITE land use type is 841: Automobile Sales <br />— Used, but that land use code refers to standard retail used car lots that vary between <br />700 and 5,000 square feet. The Copart USA site in Elk River encompasses 47 acres.) <br />Therefore, the use of any published TTE trip generation rates or equations to estimate <br />daily trips is not suitable for the Copart USA land use. <br />To determine trip generation potential of a Copart site, Westwood conducted a survey <br />of a number of Copart sites throughout the United States. These sites comprised a <br />variety of acreages and access locations. Most included one employee office building <br />and one storage yard access. Westwood found that the trip generation rates for the <br />Copart sites were smaller than those of standard car dealerships. Westwood has <br />compiled the findings from these trip generation surveys and has applied the rates to <br />the proposed Elk River site. <br />Most Copart sites operate during the business hours of 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The <br />following lists the average trip generation potential of the site under full build <br />conditions: <br />Weekday: <br />Average of 593 trips per day (297 inbound; 296 outbound) <br />(Note: Directional Distribution: 50% entering, 50% exiting) <br />Weekday, Peak Hour of Adjacent Street Traffic, One Hour between 7 and 9 <br />A.M.: <br />Average of 51 trips per hour (45 inbound; 6 outbound) from 7:00-8:00 a.m. <br />(Note: Directional Distribution: 88% entering, 12% exiting) <br />Weekday, Peak Hour of Adjacent Street Traffic, One Hour between 4 and 6 <br />P.M.: <br />Average of 81 trips per hour (27 inbound; 53 outbound) from 5:00-6:00 p.m. <br />(Note: Directional Distribution: 33% entering, 67% exiting) <br />COMPARATIVE LAND USES <br />The prospective Copart site is currently zoned as I-3 — General Industrial land use. <br />According to the Elk River Municipal Code, the I-3 District shall "serve as a general <br />