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d -6- traffic (study)report(ed) the peak hours (7:00am -9:00). What day? Sunday peak hour(I 1:00am to 1:00pm)traffic volume in the off season for recreation travel and farming. Services in that time start at 11:30 and over at 1:00. No extra traffic during that time from the church. What about the evening services?" RESPONSE TO APPEAL STATEMENT NO. 8 The Department of Public Works states: i As a major east-west route, SR 120 is a consistently busy highway; all east-west state highways are major routes to the foothills and various recreational locations. Caltrans reviewed the study and found no issue with the timing of the traffic counts. 1 Farming and harvesting equipment is rarely transported on SR 120 in a way that negatively impacts traffic during peak hours. In addition, SR 120 has 8 foot wide paved shoulders that allow slow moving traffic to mostly stay out of the through lanes. Neither church traffic on Sundays nor school traffic (off on summer vacation) has much overlap with summer seasonal traffic. Regarding peak hours, page 10 of the traffic study states, "data was limited to midweek a.m. peak hour and Sunday peak hour volumes." The Sunday peak hours of 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. were chosen after discussion with Church staff to properly capture the overlap between traffic leaving the site after the first service of the day and traffic arriving for the second. The mid-week a.m. peak hours of 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. were likewise chosen to properly capture the impact a private school would have on morning commute traffic during student drop-off. These are standard procedures for analyzing the traffic of any religious facility or private school, respectively, and have been done in this same manner for several other religious facilities and private schools in the County over the past few years. a ` Traffic Studies are designed to look at the largest impact a project's traffic will have on the public road system around it. Since evening services do no generally occur opposite of peak roadway traffic, and generally have less traffic than Sunday morning services, this was deemed to not have a greater impact than the times already being studied. APPEAL STATEMENT NO. 9 "Sight distance along Carrolton Road at the proposed project driveways was completed. The sight distance looking from each of the driveways in both north and south west. Direction appears to be in excess of about 600' of uninterrupted sight distance. Based on Caltrans Highway Design Manual standards this stopping sight distance(SSI) corresponds to a designs speed in excess of 60 mph. Carrolton is not a highway, it is a rural two lane road. The traffic report also does not take into account the numerous days we have fog limiting visibility of 100 feet or less.