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`Approved development' means development for which zoning has been granted by the county. `Critical road area' means a geographical area where any of the transportation facilities serving the area have been determined by the council to be worse than the acceptable level of service. `Immediate vicinity of a proiect' means the area in which transportation facilities will be required to mitigate impacts caused primarily by the project. `Level of service or LOS' means a qualitative measure describing operational conditions within a traffic stream and shall be determined using the procedures in the latest edition of the Highway Capacity Manual Transportation Research Boazd. `Mitigation' means specific actions to reduce traffic congestion. Mitigation is of two types: `local mitigation' which consists of improvements to roads and intersections that are in the immediate vicinity of a proiect including channelization of intersections, turn lanes into a proiect and similar improvements `Area mitigation' consists of improvements which increase the capacity of an arterial or other maior road such as additional lanes in the general region containing the proiect, or construction of anew arterial or collector road in the general azea containing the project, or improvements to public transportation such as buses or pazk and ride facilities sufficient to offset the traffic demand generated by the project. `Occupancy' means (11 the issuance of a certificate of occupancy for a commercial, multifamily, industrial building hotel or other structure requiring a certificate of occupancy; (21 the issuance of a buildingpermit for residential buildings that do not require a certificate of occupancy: or (3) final subdivision approval for subdivisions where dwellings aze allowed but dwellings are not being constructed before sale of any lot. `Project area' means the azea in which the proiect is expected to have an impact on the level of service of transportation facilities. `Reasonable assumptions' means the percentage of full build-out that is expected to occur during the twenty-year period after the date of the application as determined by the planning director. `Transportation facilities' means State and County highways roads, and public transportation facilities. `Worse than the acceptable level of service' means that the level of service at the AM or PM peak is "E" or"F" (d) Traffic Impact Analysis Report Required. (1) A traffic impact analysis report (TIAR) prepared or updated within six months before the submission of the application shall be included with the application for any change of zone that can venerate 50 or more peak hour trips The determination of peak hour trips shall be based on the Institute of Transportation Envineers "Trip Generation Handbook" or any other nationally recognized source. When the number of trips depends upon the exact future uses of the site, and those aze unknown at the time of rezoning (for example the types of commercial uses), the determination shall be based upon a 2