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RESOLUTION NO. 1184
A RESOLUTION of the City Council of the City of Pasco requesting the State
Transportation Commission to reconsider the design of the I-182, Twentieth
Avenue Interchange in the City of Pasco.
WHEREAS , the Washington State Department of Transportation is in
the process of implementing the final design for the construction of the Tri -
Cities I-182 link with I-82; and
W H E R E A S, a part of the design includes the proposed interchange
of I-182 with Twentieth Avenue, in the City of Pasco; and
W H E R E A S , the adequate functioning of this interchange for many
years into the future is of serious concern to the City Council; and
W HE REAS , the City Council of the City of Pasco has strong misgivings
about the adequacy of the design which has been shown the City; N OW ,
THEREFORE,
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PASCO DO RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The City in general questions the capability of the interchange
to adequately handle the various turning movements resultant from accelerating
development and associated traffic in the area of Twentieth Avenue, and
specifically funds fault with the manner in which north -bound traffic off the
"Blue Bridge" on SR -12 which intends to proceed east on I-182 must weave
through the east -bound I-182 traffic which intends to exit at the Twentieth Avenue
Interchange via the collector -distributor road shown in the Interchange design,
and the City believes that the growing amount of this traffic will constitute a
hazard and will discourage use of the Interchange, and that as a consequence of
such, the resultant congestion will constitute a traffic hazard, together with
-becoming a negative factor to the highest and best development in the area of
Twentieth Avenue
Section 2. The City Council feels that the existing and future development
of the frontage on Twentieth Avenue from I-182, north to the Tri -Cities Airport, has
not been given proper consideration in the design of the Interchange.
Section 3. The City Council is of the opinion that the rapid growth of the
Tri -Cities area and the concommitant growth in the use of the Tri -Cities Airport is
a factor in future traffic projections that must be treated with concern. In a like
manner, planning must take into account the existence of Columbia Basin College
with its growing enrollment and the possibility that it might be designated a four-
year college at some time in the future.
Section 4. The City Council believes this Interchange deserves special
treatment because of the fact that it will be the only interchange between the
planned interchange at Road 68 and the present interchange at 4th Avenue in
Pasco, and that the interchange is unique because of the location of Columbia
Basin College and the Tri -Cities Airport.
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Section S. The City Council believes that the Twentieth Avenue Interchange
design was based on soft tenuous population projections which were on the low
side, and suggests that more recent firm projections should have been employed in
developing the final design for the Interchange.
Section 6. The staff and City Council have reviewed the Interchange design
with the District Engineer and staff and have not been able to achieve an
understanding that some modification of the Interchange is necessary, and with the
further understanding that: the present design meets with headquarters' approval, the
Council appeals to the Transportation Commission to consider the merits of the
City's objections with the view of ordering a redesign of the Interchange, and for
this purpose, the City Council requests an early meeting with the Commission.
PAS S E D by the City Council of the City of Pasco this day of
, 1978.
CHET BAILIE, Mayor
ATTEST:
Evelyn Wells, Deputy City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
14;T . Roach, City Attorney