Ordinance 3387-14 - Laserfiche WebLink

2. Transportation system improvements (such as off-site capacity improvements, or the fair share cost of transportation system improvements as required by Section 10 of this ordinance); and 3. Improvements that are designed to provide both local and system improvements (such as additional lanes or signalization for improving area wide as well as local transportation networks). Section 9: Requirements for transportation improvements 9.1 The City may require the applicant to implement or pay for transportation improvements to address the adverse impacts of a project, including: (1) to meet development regulations or other applicable standards for transportation improvements; (2) to meet adopted level of service standards; and (3) to implement other reasonable measures to avoid or otherwise mitigate adverse impacts to public safety, human health and the environment based on the traffic analysis and project review process. 9.2 Non-duplication. An applicant shall not be required to implement or pay for a mitigation measure more than once to address the same specific environmental impact, as provided by section 12 of this chapter. This does not preclude the City from requiring a local traffic improvement and the payment of a fee for system improvements if the project impacts occur in a different time or place, or if the local improvement does not address the system impact. For example, if a project would cause congestion and degradation of level of service both locally and system wide, an applicant could be required to mitigate the local impact by providing a turning pocket at an access point, while also paying a fee to make improvements to address level of service impacts on other intersections not addressed by the turning pocket. 9.3 Level of service improvements. The applicant is required to mitigate the project's transportation impacts to an acceptable level of service through the horizon year. 9.4 Acceptable level of service. The acceptability of levels of service is defined in 1, 2, and 3 below: 1. Level of service "A"through"D" is considered acceptable. 2. When the City Engineer and the Responsible Official determine that it is practical to create or maintain a level of service of "D" or better, Level of Service "E" or "F" is considered not acceptable. 3. When the City Engineer and the Responsible Official determine that it is not practical to create or maintain a level of service of"D" or better, then the applicant is required to use all practical measures to mitigate the impact on facilities, including all practical transportation improvements and TDM measures. The City will determine on a case-by- case basis whether the resulting level of service is acceptable. The City shall maintain a list of intersections where it has been determined that Level of Service "E" or "F" is considered acceptable, and will identify the lowest acceptable Level of Service for each of these intersections. If the adverse impact to level of service is likely to be significant, a detailed alternative analysis is required (see section 9.5). The City may recommend -6-