Irvine Municipal Code Ch. 8-4 Circulation Conditions to Allow Incremental Increase of Development In…

A. The "incremental increase," as defined below, of 1,800,000 square feet (gross floor area) of development shall be permitted in Planning Area 33 (Irvine Spectrum 1) contingent upon the following:

1. Adoption of an extension of the facility currently known as State Route 133 (the Laguna Freeway) northerly of the I-5 Freeway in the City of Irvine's circulation element of the General Plan.

2. Creation and adoption of a traffic management program with the following components:

a. Consolidation of traffic management programs under a single management body for the nonresidential/non-retail development in Planning Areas 12, 13, 17, 32 (Irvine Spectrum 3), 33 (Irvine Spectrum 1), and 34 (Irvine Spectrum 5). Development in Planning Area 35 (Irvine Spectrum 2) is not required to participate in this transportation management program, although it is intended that the management body actively pursue participation of employment sites in Planning Area 35.

b. The goal for the consolidated traffic management program shall be to reduce by 20 percent vehicle trips generated by the above-referenced development during the p.m. peak hour.

c. There shall be a program to monitor and report on the achievement of the vehicle trip reduction through use of the annual report published by the management body.

B. The incremental increase shall include general commercial development above the development authorized under the Irvine Spectrum 1 development agreement executed in August 1983 (including development, above the maximum point total referenced in that agreement, that may be authorized by Note 3 of Exhibit CI to that agreement). Of the incremental increase, 600,000 square feet (GFA) may be for retail uses. With the exception of the foregoing limitation, the exact mix of uses and their physical distribution within the planning area shall be directed by the principles embodied in the Irvine Spectrum 1 development agreement.

C. Concurrent with subsequent zoning ordinance changes that are necessary to implement this Section 8-4-1, the zoning for Planning Area 33 (Irvine Spectrum 1) shall be changed to include the incremental increase. The contingency requiring creation and adoption of a transportation management program shall be met when the single management body has been formed and established and is in operation. The 20 percent reduction referred to in Section 8-4-1.A.2.b above is only a goal for the transportation management program, and its achievement is not a contingency to development of the incremental increase.

D. The traffic reduction goal set forth in Section 8-4-1.A.2.b above does not supersede existing requirements included in the existing zoning for the Irvine Spectrum 4 (Planning Area 13) or the Irvine Spectrum 3 (Planning Area 32).

E. The Irvine Spectrum Transportation Management Association, Spectrumotion, may serve as the management body which is eligible to fulfill the requirement cited above in Section 8-4-1.A.2.a.

F. The owner of land within Planning Area 33 shall not be exempted from submitting additional traffic analyses to determine if modification will be necessary to approved traffic lane configurations for roadways within Planning Area 33. Part of this assessment can include whether additional right-of-way reservation will be necessary to accommodate the revised intensity standard for Planning Area 33.

G. Notes:

1. The additional allowed increment of 1,800,000 square feet (GFA) is equivalent to 1,565,000 gross leasable square feet.

2. The 20 percent reduction is intended to be measured as a reduction of 20 percent of the p.m. peak hour vehicle traffic that is generated by all development within the subject planning areas, excluding residential development, hotels and sites that include 50 percent or greater of retail development. The benchmark for the traffic reduction goal shall be based upon the generation rates listed on Figure 8-4.

3. The additional allowed increment of 600,000 square feet (GFA) is equivalent to 522,000 gross leasable square feet.

FIGURE 8-4. CITY OF IRVINE RECOMMENDED TRIP GENERATION

* As of 4-6-89.

(Code 1976, § V.E-703; Ord. No. 92-3, 4-14-92; Ord. No. 94-7, § 3, 6-14-94; Ord. No. 99-03, § 3, 2-9-99)