Jackson Township Planning Board
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The subject property is located on the north side of Farmingdale Road west of the Pfister Road intersection. Farmingdale Road is an east/west roadway providing for 1 travel lane in each direction and is under the jurisdiction of Ocean County. It has a gentle rolling vertical and straight horizontal alignment in the vicinity of the proposed site access. Farmingdale Road extends west to Jackson Mills Road and east to Route 9 in Howell Township, Monmouth County.
Pfister Road is a local 2-lane road and it intersects Farmingdale Road at an unsignalized intersection from the north, west of New Prospect Road. Pfister Road extends northwest to Sapphire Drive and serves commercial, farm and residential uses.
Traffic volume data was collected by conducting manual turning movement counts at the Farmingdale Road intersections of Pfister Road and New Prospect Road from 7:00 AM-10:00 AM and 3:00 PM-6:00 PM, consistent with the street peak hours adjacent to the site. In addition, an ATR was placed across Farmingdale Road which recorded traffic volumes for a period of approximately 1 week. The traffic volume counts were conducted in September 2022 when schools were in session. Peak hours of traffic flow were found to occur from 7:45 AM to 8:45 AM and from 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM. A summary of the 2022 volumes is included in the Appendix.
Figure 2 in the Appendix details the 2022 traffic volumes during the weekday street peak hours.
Estimates of traffic to be generated by the school campus were made after consultation with the operators of the schools, which will be private schools and will be primarily serviced by school bus transportation. Based on communication with the Applicant, the following information was provided to MRA.
Each high school will have a capacity of 174 students. Arrivals will be at 7:15 AM with a mid-day break from 1:45 PM to 2:30 PM and dismissals at 7:30 PM.
Most students will arrive by school bus, with each bus having a capacity for approximately 45 students.