Traffic, Parking, and Regional Draw

Executive summary

The current application expressly says the cemetery is intended to serve Amador County, Sacramento County, Placer County, and surrounding areas. It estimates about 60 funeral events per month with 50 attendees per event, but its environmental-constraints table states an average increase of only 20 vehicles per day. The supplied record does not contain a dedicated traffic study explaining that figure.

Parking description

The current County referral describes both driveway parking for up to 100 cars and a 64-space permanent parking lot. The current engineered plan visibly depicts the 64-space gravel lot, but the additional 100 driveway spaces are not clearly mapped as individually defined spaces. Historical drawings show the concept’s origin: parking was described alongside a 20-foot by 2,000-foot gravel road.

Peak conditions versus averages

An average daily traffic number can obscure the operational condition that matters most for a cemetery: a group of vehicles arriving and leaving around the same funeral. The project’s 50-attendee cap, driveway-parking concept, and emergency-access requirements make peak-event circulation more informative than a daily average alone.

Agency record

Public Works recognized from the outset that the cemetery would generate traffic and required commercial driveway encroachments and a traffic mitigation fee. In June 2026, Caltrans said the project as described would not impact State Route 104. Those statements are not contradictory: the local-road and on-site circulation questions are distinct from Caltrans’s state-highway review.