Grand Terrace Municipal Code Ch. 16.04 Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction and Vehicle Registration Fees

This chapter is intended to support the SCAQMD's imposition of the vehicle registration fee and to bring the city into compliance with the requirements set forth in Section 44243 of the Health and Safety Code in order to receive fee revenues for the purpose of implementing programs to reduce air pollution from motor vehicles.

(Ord. 135 § 1(part), 1991)

For the purposes of this chapter, the definition of the following terms shall apply:

A. "City" means the city of Grand Terrace.

B. "Fee administrator" means the finance director of the city or his/her designee.

C. "Mobile source air pollution reduction programs" means any program or project implemented by the city to reduce air pollution from motor vehicles which it determines will be consistent with the California Clean Air Act of 1988 or the plan proposed pursuant to Article 5 (commencing with Section 40460) of Chapter 5.5 of Part 3 of the California Health and Safety Code.

D. "South Coast Air Quality Management District," or "SCAQMD," means the South Coast Air District as defined in Section 40400 et seq. of the Health and Safety Code and is the agency that is responsible for comprehensive air pollution control in the South Coast Air Basin (SCAB) and certain areas of the Southeast Desert Air Basin (SEDAB).

E. "FCAA" means the Federal Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990.

F. "CCAA" the 1988 California Clean Air Act.

G. "Transportation Control Measure," or "TCM," means any strategy for reducing mobile source emissions through reduction of trips, vehicle miles traveled, vehicle hours traveled, traffic congestion, vehicle idling or vehicle use.

H. "VMT" means vehicle miles traveled, the total miles traveled by a vehicle or vehicles over a particular period, whether over a twenty-four-hour period, over an average vehicle trip, etc.

I. "VT" means vehicle trip, one-way trip from an origin to any destination.

J. "Employer" means any person(s), firm, business, educational institution, government agency, nonprofit agency or corporation, or other entity.

(Ord. 147 § 2(part), 1994; Ord. 135 § 1(part), 1991)

A. Receipt of Fee. The additional vehicle registration fees disbursed by the SCAQMD and remitted to the city, pursuant to this chapter, shall be accepted by the fee administrator.

B. Establishment of Air Quality Improvement Trust Fund. The fee administrator shall establish a separate trust fund to receive deposits of these funds.

C. Transfer of Funds. Upon receipt of vehicle registration fees, the fee administrator shall deposit such funds into a separate fund established pursuant to subsection (B) of this section. All interest earned by the trust fund account shall be credited only to that account.

D. Expenditure of Air Quality Trust Fund Revenues. All revenues received from the SCAQMD and deposited in the trust fund account shall be exclusively expended on mobile source emission reduction programs as defined in Section 16.04.020. Such revenues and any interest earned on the revenues shall be expended within one year of the completion of the programs.

E. Audits. The city consents to an audit of all programs and projects funded by vehicle registration fee revenues received from the SCAQMD pursuant to Section 44223 of the Health and Safety Code. The audit shall be conducted by an independent auditor selected by the SCAQMD as provided in Sections 44244 and 44244.1(a) of the Health and Safety Code.

(Ord. 135 § 1(part), 1991)

A. Purpose. The purpose of this section is to reduce vehicle trips thereby reducing air pollution and improving air quality, to comply with state law, and to promote an improved quality of life. These actions are to be incorporated into new development so as to meet congestion management goals at a minimum cost and disruption to citizens, business and industry.

B. Design standards for development:

1. Require bicycle parking facilities as a percentage of auto parking spaces in new nonresidential development or require secured lockers. For new nonresidential and multifamily (of ten or more units) development or remodel when discretionary review is required. Parking racks and secured lockers at a rate of one per thirty parking space with a minimum of three-bike rack;

2. On-site pedestrian walkways and bicycle facilities to connect each building in the development to public streets. For new nonresidential and multifamily development;

3. Require shower facilities for persons bicycling or walking to work. For new nonresidential development. Minimum of one shower facility accessible to both men and women (CMP threshold or one-half CEQA, or two hundred fifty peak hour trips);

4. Passenger loading areas in locations close to building entrances and so as not to interfere with vehicle circulation. For new nonresidential and multifamily (of ten or more units) development with at least one hundred parking spaces. Loading area = equivalent to a minimum of five parking spaces;

5. Preferred parking facilities for vanpools are required and should have vertical clearance of no less than nine feet. For new nonresidential development one to two spaces per one hundred parking stalls;

6. Provide transit improvements such as bus pullouts, bus pads, bus shelters. Need for and nature to be defined in cooperation with Omnitrans. For all new residential and nonresidential development along existing or planned transit routes;

7. Provide telecommuting center or contribute toward the development of a telecommuting center. For new residential development of twenty plus units;

8. Provide on-site video conferencing facilities. For office park developments for one thousand plus employees;

9. Reduce parking space requirements to account for increased ridesharing and other modes of transportation. For new nonresidential development linked to other actions that reduce trips;

10. Require provisions for shuttle services to and from transit facilities;

11. Require provisions or contributions to a shuttle that accesses transit facilities;

12. Require provisions for on-site child care facilities and ground-level play areas, or contribute to development of an off-site facility within walking distance;

13. Require provisions for delivery services to residents and/or employment centers in the vicinity.

C. New facilities:

1. Develop bicycle route system consistent with SCAGs Regional Mobility Element. To be determined based on countywide bicycle plan;

2. Designate on-site parking areas to be used by commuters as park-and-ride lots or contribute exaction fee to develop off-site park-and-ride lots;

3. Development of small business incubator (possible CMAC funding ISTEA);

4. Install or widen sidewalks, where appropriate, to safely accommodate pedestrians.

D. Land use patterns:

1. Increase commercial densities around transit stations. (Suggested level of implementation: commercial density of 1.0 FAR [or higher] within one-quarter mile of transit modes or stations);

2. Provide incentives to incorporate on-site child care facilities and senior citizen facilities. (Suggested level of implementation: child care and senior citizen uses calculated at fifty percent [twenty-five to seventy-five percent] or actual floor area);

3. Require residential subdivisions to incorporate supportive daily services that are centrally located and conveniently accessibly to pedestrians and bicyclists.

E. Employer-based rideshare program:

1. Require provision of a centrally located commuter information area that offers information on available transportation alternatives, route schedules and maps, available employee incentives, and rideshare promotional material for employers of less than one hundred employees.

F. Monitoring. Prior to the issuance of a building permit for new building or an addition to an existing building, all facilities and improvements imposed by this section shall be constructed or otherwise provided.

G. Enforcement:

1. The community development director or director's duly designated representative is responsible for the enforcement of the provisions in these sections.

2. No person, firm or corporation shall violate or otherwise fail to comply with any of the provisions of this section. The failure to implement the trip reduction measures made applicable by this section shall be punishable as provided in Chapter 4.88 and Chapter 18.93 of this code.

(Ord. 147 § 2(part), 1994)

A. Purpose. These additional actions will be considered by the city of Grand Terrace to offset any lack of future development:

1. Educational Program. Continue outreach program/educational program with the purpose of reducing nonwork and work trips (AB2766-Contract No. C93056);

2. Park and Ride Facilities. Develop two park and ride facilities with access to Barton Road;

3. Bike Trails. Install bike lanes and related street improvements and landscaping on currently used routes along the southwestern portion of Main Street to Mt. Vernon and to the northeastern portion of Barton Road;

4. Telecommuting. Develop employee-based telecommuting option to be authorized on a one-by-one basis;

5. Local shuttle system that serves only residents and businesses of Grand Terrace, within city boundaries;

6. Bus route expansion within the city to increase the opportunity to commute by bus.

(Ord. 147 § 2(part) 1994)