Item 4: Ord.on Downtown and Mixed Use Development

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ATTACHMENT B Traffic Impact Analysis Exempt Area, or (b) subject to a prior approved Traffic Impact Analysis and is consistent with the impacts analyzed. (1) The development will generate 100 or more vehicle trips during any peak hour as determined by using the most recent edition of the Institute of Transportation Engineer’s Trip Generation. In developments involving a land division, the peak hour trips shall be calculated based on the likely development that will occur on all lots resulting from the land division. (2) The increased traffic resulting from the development will contribute to traffic problems in the area based on current accident rates, traffic volumes or speeds that warrant action under the city’s traffic calming program, and identified locations where pedestrian and/or bicyclist safety is a concern by the city that is documented. (3) The city has performed or reviewed traffic engineering analyses that indicate approval of the development will result in levels of service of the roadway system in the vicinity of the development that do not meet adopted level of service standards. (4) For development sites that abut a street in the jurisdiction of Lane County, a Traffic Impact Analysis Review is required if the proposed development will generate or receive traffic by vehicles of heavy weight in their daily operations. For purposes of EC 9.8650 through EC 9.8680, “daily operations” does not include routine services provided to the site by others, such as mail delivery, garbage pickup, or bus service. “Daily operations” does include, but is not limited to, delivery (to or from the site) of materials or products processed or sold by the business occupying the site. For purposes of EC 9.8650 through EC 9.8680, “heavy vehicles” are defined as a single vehicle or vehicle combination greater than 26,000 pounds gross vehicle weight or combined gross vehicle weight respectively. Section 11. Subsection (3) of Section 9.9650 of the Eugene Code, 1971, is amended to provide as follows: 9.9650 TransPlan Policies. (3) Transportation System Improvements: Roadways. Motor vehicle level of service policy: (a) Use motor vehicle level of service standards to maintain acceptable and reliable performance on the roadway system. These standards shall be used for: 1. Identifying capacity deficiencies on the roadway system. 2. Evaluating the impacts on roadways of amendments to transportation plans, acknowledged comprehensive plans and land-use regulations, pursuant to the TPR (OAR 660-12-0060). 3. Evaluating development applications for consistency with the land- use regulations of the applicable local government jurisdiction. (b) Acceptable and reliable performance is defined by the following levels of service under peak hour traffic conditions: 1. Level of Service F within Eugene’s Downtown Traffic Impact Analysis Exempt Area; 2. Level of Service E within the portion of Eugene’s Central Area Transportation Study (CATS) area[,] that is not within Eugene’s Downtown Traffic Impact Analysis Exempt Area; and Ordinance - Page 14 of 17