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4.3 Alternate Trip Generation Calculation Prior to the issuance of a permit requiring payment of Transportation SDCs, an applicant may elect to use the alternate calculation method (ACM) of determining the trip generation for the type of development proposed, as provided here. This election must be by written application to the City Engineer, must be accompanied with payment or the agreement to pay the transportation SDC using the standard calculation and must be approved by the City Engineer. Issuance of a final certificate of occupancy for the development will be contingent on a final decision by the City Engineer on the alternate calculation submitted for review. In the absence of the City Engineer's approval of the applicant's election to use an alternate calculation, the standard calculation shall be used. All calculations shall be based on the site’s trip generation that occurs concurrently with the PM peak hour of the City’s transportation system (as defined as the peak one-hour period between 4 PM and 6 PM). 4.3.1 Existing Traffic Study Standards If an applicant provides previously performed traffic studies that meet the standards in section 4.3 and have been approved by the City Engineer, the trip rate based upon those studies may be used to calculate the transportation SDC. Except that the studies may come from geographic locations other than those listed in section 4.3.3.3 the studies shall meet the standards set in section 4.3.3 and shall not be more than ten years old. 4.3.2 Independent Traffic Study If an applicant does not want to use the trip generation rates in section 4.2 or to have the rate determined under section 4.3.1, with the prior written approval of the City Engineer by complying with the standards in section 4.3.3 below, the applicant may conduct an independent survey of the proposed development's trip generation rate. 4.3.3 Transportation Traffic Study Criteria To be used to calculate the Transportation SDC for a proposed development under this section 4.3.3, a transportation study must meet the following standards unless the City Engineer modifies them because of unique circumstances: 4.3.3.1 Qualifications of Study The completed study must be stamped by either a licensed civil engineer qualified to conduct traffic studies or a licensed transportation engineer, who has been approved by the City Engineer. 4.3.3.2 Development Specifications The study shall be based upon analyses of the trip-making characteristics of similar facilities, both in size and type of land uses operating at full occupancy/capacity. November 26, 2018, Meeting - Item 4