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JONES PETRIE RAFiNSKI Engineering ' Planning - GIS • Landscape Architecture y011t" OtiC Sill le SOU €'CO Surveying • Environmental - Renewable Energy • ArchiWCWre, December 6, 2013 City of South Bend Department of Public Works Division of Engineering 227 W. Jefferson Blvd, Suite 130ON South Bend, IN 46601 Attention: John Engstrom, P.E. RE: CITY OF SOUTH BEND - TRAFFIC IMPACT STUDY Dear John: Thank you for allowing JPR an opportunity to provide you with this proposal for the above referenced project. It has been a pleasure working with you in the past, and we look forward to working with you again. For this project I will serve as the project manager and principal in- charge and will coordinate all staff assignments and provide oversight and budget control for the duration of our work. PROJECT DESCRIPTION & UNDERSTANDING: The proposed project is located in Ignition Park at the southern gateway into downtown South Bend on the southeast corner of the Sample Street/Prairie Street intersection. As part of the preliminary planning for the project, the City has requested a Traffic Impact Study (TIS) be completed to determine the impacts the development of the Ignition Park will have on the surrounding roadway network. In addition, the study will need to be reviewed and approved by the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) as the project will impact existing intersections along the State Road 23 corridor. The proposed study area to be considered is shown on Figure 1. The area generally includes the roadways surrounding the proposed Ignition Park development and would include Sample Street, Prairie Street, Lafayette Boulevard, Garst Street, Stull Street, Cotter Street, Scott Street, and Indiana Avenue, A preliminary meeting to review the scope of the study will need to be conducted with INDOT to approve an official scope of study. However, it is anticipated to include the scope outlined in Task 2. The goal of the study would be to outline the impacts the proposed development will have on the surrounding roadway network and develop a proposed plan to mitigate these impacts. Lafayette Boulevard, Sample Street and Prairie Street are major thorough ways for traffic entering and existing downtown South Bend. The capacity analysis for these intersections will outline the proposed improvements necessary to keep at and /or to bring the existing intersections to an acceptable level -of- service and to mitigate the impacts of the Ignition Park development.