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