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TRIS Online Accession Number:00778497
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NTL Classification:NTL-HIGHWAY/ROAD TRANSPORTATION-HIGHWAY/ROAD TRANSPORTATION;NTL-HIGHWAY/ROAD TRANSPORTATION-Construction and Maintenance;NTL-ECONOMICS AND FINANCE-Funding;NTL-PLANNING AND POLICY-Public Participation and Outreach;NTL-OPERATIONS AND TRAFFIC CONTROLS-Congestion;
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Abstract:The City of Lacey rewrote the ordinance governing collection of fees to mitigate
development impacts on the transportation system. Previously developers
submitted traffic generation and distribution reports prepared by qualified
traffic engineers. The impacts were reviewed and the mitigation required at
each site in the City were iteratively negotiated. This process required
substantial investment by the developer and the City. Funds collected could
only be used on the specific project for which they were collected.
In developing a new ordinance, the City requested public input. Roundtable
discussions included builders and developers. The application of mitigation fee
formulas to commercial and residential projects, as well as trip generation and
distribution methodology, were discussed in these sessions.
The final ordinance included trip generation reductions for commercial property
and a per trip mitigation fee cap for residential properties. The ordinance
also allows the City to pool money from various projects for a single project
under certain circumstances, and mitigation fees can be collected for projects
already built until the project costs are fully amortized. An additional result
of the roundtable discussions is that the City developed a trip distribution map
for each Traffic Analysis Zone(TAZ). A proposed development can use this
distribution to be negotiated as was done under the previous ordinance.
All of these tools are based on existing information. Trip distributions were
plotted using the City's transportation model assembled as part of the
Transportation Comprehensive Plan. All projects to be mitigated are listed in
the city's Six-Year Transportation Improvement Plan.
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