Windsor Municipal Code Art. 2 Operation

The provisions of this chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Town of Windsor Trip Reduction Regulations (TRR)."

(Ord. No. 93-31 § 2)

This chapter is authorized under Proposition 111, Government Code Section 65089 and the Streets and Highways Code Section 2105.

(Ord. No. 93-31 § 2)

This chapter incorporates the Sonoma County Transportation Authority (SCTA) minimum trip reduction and travel demand requirements.

(Ord. No. 93-31 § 2)

The following Trip Reduction Requirements are hereby established and are imposed upon employers within the Town.

a. This article shall apply to all employers within the Town with one hundred (100) or more employees at individual job sites. Only those sites which have one hundred (100) or more employees are subject to this chapter.

b. Each employer subject to this chapter shall disseminate trip reduction information regarding transportation alternatives including carpools, vanpools, transit and bicycling and other methods of reducing trips such as telecommuting, compressed work week and flexible work hours annually to each employee and to all new employees as they are hired.

c. Each employer subject to this chapter shall annually conduct an Employee Trip Survey using a uniform survey form prepared by the Sonoma County Transportation Authority. A summary of the trip survey results shall be submitted annually to the Town of Windsor. An eighty (80%) percent trip survey response rate is a desired goal. The Town shall prepare an overall summary of all surveys, which will then be reported annually to the Sonoma County Transportation Authority.

d. The Town Manager shall designate a "Transportation Administrator" to be responsible for implementing the Trip Reduction Ordinance.

e. Each employer subject to this chapter shall designate a "Transportation Coordinator" to be responsible for administering the employer requirements of the Trip Reduction Ordinance. Each Transportation Coordinator shall be required to complete a training course approved by the Sonoma County Transportation Authority.

f. The desired trip reduction goal is a five percent (5%) reduction in trips per year to a maximum of fifty percent (50%) reduction in trips based upon the first year of reporting.

(Ord. No. 93-31 § 2)

If any other agency which has jurisdiction over trip reduction requirements for employers within the Town adopts trip reduction requirements that meet or exceed the requirements of this chapter, then any employer with the Town that meets those requirements will be deemed to be meeting the requirements of this chapter by annually forwarding to the Town a copy of all trip reduction information and documentation required by the other agency.

(Ord. No. 93-31 § 2)

Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Chapter and pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section 40929, the requirements of this Chapter shall not be applicable to any employer unless the provisions of this Chapter are required by federal law to avoid the imposition of federal sanctions.

(Ord. No. 96-83 § 1)