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traffic impact analysis which substantially increased the project’s transportation impact beyond what the company has previously predicted.
That impact study, along with drastically increased numbers of housing units and commercial space, has left the project’s opponents renewing their criticism of the project.
Disney originally predicted that the park would attract 30,000 visitors on peak days, generating approximately 7,500 vehicle trips per day when the park opens in 1998.
Last week, Disney’s in-house traffic analyst Tom Lewis said his traffic study indicates the park would generate 31,790'trips per day in its first phase, climbing to an estimated 77,000 vehicle trips at full buildout in 2015. 1
According to Lewis’s “general rule” of cars equalling one-half the daily trips, Disney’s figures indicate the project would add approximately 15,900 cars in Phase One, and 38,500 cars at buildout.
The additional traffic comesj in . part, from increases in the project’s components which Disney unveiled last week. The rezoning application contains plans for a total of 1,340 hotel rooms, up to 2,500 Single and multi-family residential units and as much as 2 million square feet of commercial space.
Those figures came as no surprise to Kathleen K. Seefeldt, chairwoman of the Prince William Board of Supervisors. Disney officials, she said Tuesday, “were careful when they put out the first figures to outline that those first numbers were conservative —that they were trying to give state and local governments something to work with.
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