041-01
City of Winchester
Edwin C. Daley
i;(anager. City of Winchester
City 0/ Winchester
15 N. Cameron Street
Winchesler, V..I 22601
(540) 667-18/5
FAX: (540) 722-3618
John R. Riley, Jr
County Administrator
County of Frederick
107 N. Kent Street
Winchester, V,./ 22601
(540) 665-5666
F,>L'(; (540) 667.0370
County of Frederick
JOINT RESOLUTION
THE WINCHESTER COMMON COUNCIL
AND
FREDERICK COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
REQUEST TO COMMONWEALTH TRANSPORTATION BOARD TO
INCORPORA TE COLLECTOR-DISTRIBUTOR ROADWAYS
AND A NEW INTERCHANGE BETWEEN EXITS 310 AND 313
WHEREAS, the City ofWinchester ("City"), County of Frederick ("County") and the
Town of Stephens City worked in conjunction with the Virginia Department of Transportation
("VDOT") on the adopted Winchester Area Transportation Study ("W A TS") covering long-
range and short-term transportation needs in the Winchester area; and,
WHEREAS, the City adopted a resolution on August 11, 1998, approving the WATS
subject to three conditions, one of which was that the Plan be amended by including an 1-81
Interchange in the vicinity of Batt aile Drive; and,
WHEREAS, the County adopted a resolution on June 9,1998, approving the WATS
subject to certain other conditions; and,
WHEREAS, VDOT, as an initial step toward improving 1-81, employed HSlVTh1 to
prepare an Interstate 81 Improvement Study ("Study") for Study Area #10 resulting in the
publication of a Final Report dated November 1998; and,
WHEREAS, as a part of the abovementioned Study, traffic analyses were prepared by
TransCore for each of the existing interchanges, including the Route 50,522, 17 interchanges
(Exits 313, 313A & 313B) where the future year (2020) analysis shows nearly two out of every
three southbound 1-81 vehicles exiting the interstate; and,
WHEREAS, the Study called for a Single-Point Urban Interchange (Spur) at Exit 313
which is now being reevaluated due to cost and concerns about the inability of a SPUI to
effectively handle uneven volumes of opposing left-turning traffic exiting the Interstate; and,
WHEREAS, the City and the County have for at least the past six years communicated
their desires to see additional access provided to 1-81 between Exits 3 13 and 3 10 along with the
establishment of Collector-Distributor (C-D) roadways incorporated into the final design of the
Interstate widening proposal; and,
WHEREAS, the establishment of C-D roadways would improve the safety of interstate
mobility through the Winchester-Frederick County areas by separating the mainline traffic from
the very high volume of regional traffic seeking destinations served by the interchanges in the
Winchester-Frederick County areas; and,
WHEREAS, C-D roadways would permit the establishment of an interchange in the
vicinity of Battaile Drive to reduce the costs of interchange construction and extent of business
disruption in the vicinity of Exit 313 by dispersing existing and future regional traffic seeking
commercial and industrial destinations in the Winchester-Frederick County areas; and,
WHEREAS, the City and County are fully aware of the need for VDOT to provide
FHW A with justification for additional or revised access points on the Interstate System based
upon issues such as safety, traffic operation and coordination with land use which three aspects of
interchange justification we feel are served by the incorporation of C-D Roadways and an access
to the C-D network in the vicinity of Batt aile Drive.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Common Council of the City of
Winchester and the Board of Supervisors for the County of Frederick hereby recommend that the
Commonwealth Transportation Board request VDOT and FHW A to incorporate C-D roadways
with access to and from the C-D roadways provided in the vicinity of Battaile Drive and the
existing PaperMill Road overpass.
Adopted this Ztt..
Council, and this 11 th
Board of Supervisors.
day of nl~/ ,2001, by the Winchester City Common
f O. . k C
day 0 Annl , 2001, by the FrederiC ounty
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. G nor, President
Winchester 1 ommon Council
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Edwin C. Daley, City Manager
City of Winchester
ESTER COUNTY OF FREDERICK
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Richard C. Shickle, Chairman
Frederick County Board of Supervisors
Date: 5/0/01
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Date: If.h 1,/
Resolution No. 2001-28.
BOS Resolution No.: 041-01