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The City recently adopted a traffic mitigation ordinance as an amendment to the City's SEPA Ordinance. The concomitant agreement to the rezone ordinance requires the Applicant to comply with all SEPA policies in effect at time of submittal of future Building Permits. Due to the uncertainty regarding the assumptions in the traffic studies, City Council finds that it is necessary to monitor actual traffic impacts generated by the development during construction of the project to insure that traffic mitigation requirements are directly related to impacts actually generated by the development. A condition should be placed in the contract to allow the City to require mitigation per the impacts which are actually being generated by the proposal . CONCLUSIONS A condition was added to the concomitant agreement to require that approvals for the project be granted for a single phase of the master plan and proceed a single phase at a time. After 75 percent occupancy of each phase, traffic reviews for subsequent phases would be conducted to monitor actual traffic against those projected in the Merrill Creek Final EIS. Building permits for subsequent phases would not be granted until traffic impacts are mitigated in accordance with the revised traffic review. With the mitigation measures listed in the Concomitant Agreement to the Rezone Ordinance, both the direct and indirect impacts of the proposal on off-site traffic would be adequately mitigated. The project may be required to provide additional traffic mitigation based upon the traffic studies for each phase. FINDINGS On-Site Circulation: The proposal would have a public street from Merrill Creek Parkway to Phase 4 , the Single Family Plat. Private roadways would be provided throughout the rest of the site. The multiple family phases would have 23