Allandale: Traffic Analysis not in Good Faith

The Allandale Reporter web site has an update from the Northcross Committee of the Allandale Neighborhood Association.

The committee has sent a letter to the Mayor and City Council outlining their continued concerns with the plan to build a Wal-Mart supercenter on the Northcross property. They discuss some of the troublesome problems with the TIA (traffic impact analysis) produced by Lincoln Property and Wal-Mart:

[...] We believe that Lincoln Property Company has not acted in good faith when submitting this revised TIA, and should submit a TIA to [City of Austin] staff that accurately predicts the future volume of the store. The first step to achieving this goal is to base the traffic analysis on the findings of the August 2006 ITE Journal article (see attached), which demonstrated that Wal-Mart Supercenters in Texas and Oklahoma produced traffic volumes that greatly exceeded the volumes predicted by the ITE Handbook. By making this adjustment to the methodology, LPC can produce a traffic forecast that is more likely to reflect reality, rather than simply using inaccurate figures to satisfy the COA’s TIA requirement.

Read the full article here: Northcross and the Supercenter.