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4 .. obstructions in the roads, unfamiliarity of system, or difficulty in finding an address. Fire Department opposes the creation of dead While the Fire Department saw a problem with Police Department did not feel that closing law enforcement problems. a driver with the street As a general rule, the ends in the street system. the road closure, the the road would create any The third problem with closing Palmer Drive is the inconvenience it will cause residents of the Pike Lake area in going to and from Silver Lake Road and the shopping center area. Travel times could be increased by up to 5 minutes as a result of the road closing. Alternate 2: Connect Palmer Drive to Thorndale; Robin Lane to Palmer Drive, and Robin Lane to 12th Street N.W. This alternate would appear to have the second greatest likelihood of reducing or eliminating pass-through traffic. It would likely create many of the same problems in the shopping center as noted in Alternate 1 above. While it would be available for emergency access, it would probably be useful for emergency access to the inter~i~or of the subdivision only if all other accesses are blocked. Traffic on Pike Lake Drive and Thorndale would be expected to increase. The amount of increase would be dependent upon how many trips went to 14th Street NW or through the shopping center instead. It would appear that guard rail type barriers would have to be constructed at two locations. in order to prevent curb hopping. Lastly, this alternate may not be visually pleasing to the neighborhood. Alternate 3: Connect Palmer Drive to Thorndale; Robin Lane to Robin Lane This alternate might be characterized as the one most closely paralleling traffic patterns in the neighborhood. Because Palmer Drive (the shopping center) is made less convenient, less pass-through traffic would be expected. Once familiar with the area, however, the pass-through motorist may well find this circulation pattern more acceptable than 14th Street N.W. and Silver Lake Road. If this would occur to any great extent, this alternate could be characterized as moving the problem rather than solving it. Traffic patterns would shift south to 12th Street N.W. and Thorndale thereby increasing traffic on these streets and also increasing traffic in front of more homes on Pike Lake Drive. Land-Use Impacts All of the alternates would affect land-use relationships in the area. In order to aid the Council, the attached layouts show proposed alternates, the existing zoning, and possible lot configurations. It should be noted that vacations would be necessary and some aggregation of splintered parcels may be necessary. The vacation of right-of-way will produce irregular lot lines and ownership parcels.