Streamlining Traffic Mitigation Fees

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• Creators:
  Crebbin, Cory ; Hoppe, Martin
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  City Of Lacey Commercial And Residential Properties Commercial Buildings Construction Developers Development Fees Funding Impacts Ordinances Residential Areas Traffic Analysis Zones Traffic Impact Analyses Transportation Improvement Plans Trip Distribution Trip Generation

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• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/1403513
• Resource Type:
  Proceedings
• Geographical Coverage:
  Washington
• TRIS Online Accession Number:
  00778497
• 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
• 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.
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:1f158183bbdfac059b9c3c961936b4a73810225a999403d549e7d166c74c81f6
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/12908/dot_12908_DS1.pdf
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