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--1 1 Addendum to Lafevers Agenda Item M At their meeting of April 3, 1985, the Board of County Commissioners requested that the staff analyze the Lafevers site and estimate the number, type, and cost of the off-street improvements which will be required of the applicant at the time of development approval. In response to that request, the staff analyzed the site and the proposed project and developed cost estimates for the necessary off-site traffic improvements which the developer will be required to make. The Lafevers property at 8th Street and U.S. #1, currently zoned commercial, consists of 3.96 acres, while the remainder of the property for which a rezoning and a comp plan amendment have been requested consists of 1.95 acres. If the requested rezoning and the comp plan amendment are approved, the total land area available for development would be 5.91 acres. With. a C-1 zoning designation, this property could be used for any of a variety of commercial uses allowed in the C-1, Commercial District. Although the applicant has indicated that he intends to construct a 75,558 square foot retail facility on the site and has even submitted a conceptual site plan for the project, there can be no assurance that, once the zoning and land use designation is changed, the project as proposed would be built. Regardless of that fact, it is possible for the staff to generally determine what type of off-site traffic improvements would be required for the property to develop. It is also possible for the staff to estimate the general costs represented by the off-site traffic system improvements which will be required. A number of improvements would be required of the applicant prior to obtaining development approval for a project upon the subject property. Because the site is bounded on four sides by roadways and because of the large number of trips expected to be attracted to the property (between 3,765 and 5,626 average daily trips), there are a substantial number of off-site traffic improvements needed to avoid any adverse impacts upon the existing levels of service of the roadways in the area. Generally, these improvements would be identified during the site plan review for the project, and their installation would be conditions of site plan approval. Table 1 delineates the off-site traffic improvements which will be required of the developer of the subject property, while table 2 delineates the recent traffic improvements made by the County which benefit the subject property. For each of these improvements, the applicable costs have been estimated; however, these estimates are general and could substantially change based upon the final approved engineering design of the improvements. One important consideration in this matter is the timing of the improvements made by the County and benefitting the site. If this project had been submitted prior to the installation of the 8th Street improvements made by the County, the applicant would have been required to dedicate by donation the 50 feet of right-of-way for his 833 feet of frontage along the 8th Street alignment. This would have been mandated since 8th Street is designated as a secondary collector on the Thoroughfare Plan. As shown in table 2, this right-of-way donation would have represented an $85,000 contribution. 53 Bou 769