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Traffic Impact Analyses- For the purpose of changing the threshold for when a traffic impact analysis is required from four hundred trips to two hundred fifty trips.
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CITY COUNCIL OF THE
City of Annapolis
Ordinance 19-16 Amended
Introduced by: Alderman Littmann, Alderman Pfeiffer
and Mayor Pantelides
Referred to
Planning Commission
Rules and City Government Committee
Transportation Committee
Transportation Board
AN ORDINANCE concerning
Traffic Impact Analyses
FOR the purpose of changing the threshold for when a traffic impact analysis is required from four hundred trips to two hundred fifty trips.
BY amending the following portion of the Code of the City of Annapolis, 2015 Edition
Section 22.21.010
SECTION I: BE IT ESTABLISHED AND ORDAINED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that the Code of the City of Annapolis shall be amended to read as follows:
TITLE 22 - ADEQUATE PUBLIC FACILITIES
Chapter 22.21 - TRAFFIC IMPACT ANALYSES
Section 22. 21.010 - Traffic Impact Analyses.
A. Applicability. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this title, a traffic impact analysis shall be required for:
1. A project must have a traffic impact study if:
a. The proposed development and/or additions to existing structure is expected to generate four hundred TWO HUNDRED FIFTY daily trips or more based upon trip generation rates published in the latest edition of the Trip Generation Manual, published by the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE); or
b. There are current traffic problems or issues in the project area, e.g. high traffic accident frequency; or
c. The proposed entrances and exits from the site are too close to an intersection.
2. Exceptions. There are no exceptions to the criteria above.
3. The Director of Planning and Zoning, at his or her discretion, can conduct traffic impact analyses even if they do not meet the criteria set forth above.
B. Procedures for the preparation of traffic impact analyses
1. The traffic impact analysis...
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