trafficlightJamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Planning Commission has approved a request that the City Council develop an ordinance requiring traffic studies on a 6-1 vote with Corey Bayer dissenting.

Bayer said the requirement would add cost and time to future developments.

City Engineer Reed Schwartzkopf said one of the goals of the proposal should be fairness.

SRF Consulting Group, Planner, Stephanie Falkers,said a traffic impact study should put in writing existing traffic and traffic counts in the area of the development, estimate the amount of traffic generated by any planned new development and list the impact of new traffic on the existing street system.

The Planning Commission also reviewed an expansion of the boundaries for the Jamestown Urban Area.

The map defines areas where the human population density is anticipated to increase.

The Planning Commission gave final approval to a new plat combining three existing lots into one at the 700 block at 12th Street Southwest.