Lincoln Municipal Code Art. III Transportation Plans

This article shall apply to every applicant for a conditional use permit, zoning change or tentative map for:

(1) A new project which would allow a use or number of uses that, individually or collectively, would employ 100 or more employees at one common work location; or

(2) The expansion of an existing project which would allow a use or uses that, individually or collectively, after expansion, may both:

a. Generate employment for 100 or more employees; and

b. Increase the total number of employees at the common work location by 20 percent or more from the applicant's base-line employment.

(Ord. 604B §§3, 4, 1993: Ord. 418B §1(part), 1982: Ord. 357B §11.05.000, 1979)

The applicant shall submit, along with any other required information, a transportation plan for the project. The transportation plan shall include the following:

(1) Description. A description of the activity and operating characteristics of the proposed project (e.g., business hours and peak hours of traffic generation);

(2) Estimate. An estimate of the commuting characteristics of the tenants and/or employees anticipated at the project site (e.g., travel distance and mode);

(3) Mitigation Measures. Mitigation measures designed to achieve a reduction in the number of vehicle trips that would occur if all home-to-work trips by the anticipated tenants or employees were made in single-occupant vehicles. The applicant shall design a program to achieve a 30-percent reduction in vehicle trips. Such mitigation measures shall be selected by the applicant and may include, but are not limited to, the following:

a. Payment of subsidies or provision of other incentives to carpoolers or vanpoolers,

b. Payment of parking charges or absorption of vanpool operation expense for ridesharers,

c. Payment of subsidies or provision of incentives for the use of transit or transportation by other than single-occupant motor vehicles,

d. Provision of amenities, such as bicycle lockers, transit shelters, shuttle buses, etc., designed to enhance the use of other than single-occupancy motor vehicles,

e. An adequate number of shower and personal locker facilities for regular bicycle commuters,

f. A vanpool program consisting of a continuously outstanding offer to acquire a van or vans (by purchase, lease or otherwise), to obtain insurance and to make available to any group of at least eight employees a van for their use in a vanpool,

g. Provisions for shifting of vehicle trips from the peak hour to the nonpeak hours. A reduction in vehicle trips per day shall be permitted and calculated in the following manner: The number of trips taken out of the peak hour, divided by the estimated total trips multiplied by 25 percent would equal the percent reduction of vehicle trips per day credited,

h. Any other program the applicant may devise,

i. Assistance in transportation plan preparation will be provided by the city through the transportation control measure (TCM) coordinator. A TCM coordinator will be provided to the city by the Placer County transportation commission. The TCM coordinator's tasks shall include: conducting an initial survey regarding employees' use of alternative transportation modes which all employers will be asked to participate in; conducting an annual commute survey as part of assisting the employer's annual reporting requirements.

(Ord. 604B §5, 1993; Ord. 418B §1(part), 1982: Ord. 357B §11.05.010, 1979)

The transportation plan shall be referred to the transportation coordinator for review and evaluation of the proposed mitigation measures and for recommendation to the planning commission or the city council.

(Ord. 418B §1(part), 1982: Ord. 357B §11.05.020, 1979)

The planning commission or city council, as the case may be, shall review and evaluate the transportation plan and shall approve, modify and approve or disapprove the transportation plan as part of the review and approval process for the application under submission. No project application subject to the provisions of this article shall be approved without approval of the transportation plan. The transportation plan shall not be approved unless it is found to meet the trip-reduction objectives established in subsection 18.45.100(3).

(Ord. 418B §1(part), 1982: Ord. 357B §11.05.030, 1979)

As a condition of approval of the project, the city may require the applicant to enter into a written agreement with the city obligating the applicant to comply with the transportation plan. Such agreement shall be made to run with the land and bind all successors in interest of the applicant and shall constitute an equitable servitude on the property. Where appropriate, the city may require the agreement to include a provision for a penalty, in the event of breach by the applicant or a successor in interest, and, where the applicant is required to construct physical improvements on the project site, to include a provision for improvement security for the construction in a form approved by the city attorney.

(Ord. 418B §1(part), 1982: Ord. 357B §11.05.050, 1979)

Compliance with the approved transportation plan shall be included as a condition of approval for the application under consideration, and may be included as a term of a development agreement between the city and the project applicant.

(Ord. 418B §1(part), 1982: Ord. 357B §11.05.070, 1979)

Actions required in Article II of this chapter may be credited in the transportation plan for their potential contribution to the trip-reduction objective as required by this article.

(Ord. 418B §1(part), 1982: Ord. 357B §11.05.080, 1979)

Parking space requirements for tenant or employee parking for the project may be reduced below the prevailing parking standard by a percentage of the total number of spaces required that is equivalent to the percentage of trip reduction that is to be achieved by the programs specified in the transportation plan. In no case shall parking space reduction exceed the prevailing parking requirements or standards relating to tenants or employees.

(Ord. 418B §1(part), 1982: Ord. 357B §11.05.090, 1979)

Each applicant subject to the requirements of this article, and all successors in interest of the applicant obligated to carry out the transportation plan or any part thereof, shall submit to the transportation coordinator a report by March 1st every year describing the transportation program. The report shall contain, at a minimum, the following information:

(1) Description. A description of the measures taken to comply with this chapter, including an accounting of the resources expended on rideshare promotion activities;

(2) Use. The average number of tenants and/or employees regularly arriving at and leaving the project site for the reporting period by each of the following methods of transportation:

a. Single-passenger motor vehicles (including mopeds);

b. Carpools;

c. Van-type vehicles with eight or more commuters;

d. Mass transit;

e. Bicycles;

f. All others.

(3) Numbers. The total number of tenants and/or employees at the project site shall be included in the report;

(4) The rideshare coordinator will be responsible for conducting an annual commute survey as part of the employer's annual reporting requirements.

(Ord. 604B §6, 1993; Ord. 418B §1(part), 1982: Ord. 357B §11.06.000, 1979)