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transportation facilities serving the project area, the conditions of zoning shall require area mitigation. (3) If there is more than one way to mitigate an adverse effect, the director shall present to the council the pros and cons of the alternatives. (f) Mitigation requirements will be deemed satisfied when: (1) A public agency has committed funds for area mitigation that will remove the LOS deficiency. In the case of the State, commitment of funds means that the governor has released funds to complete the improvement. In the case of the County, commitment of funds means that the council has appropriated funds to complete the improvement; or (2) The private developer's commitment to implement mitigation has been secured by bond or equivalent security, or mandatory participation in an improvement district, community facilities district, or other equivalent means of guaranteeing performance. (g) A developer's area mitigation expenses shall be credited against any fair share or similar fee requirement for roads. A developer's local mitigation expenses shall be credited against any fair share or similar fee requirement for roads if the council determines that the mitigation substantially benefits the general public and was not necessary primarily for the benefit of the project. In general, roads that are necessary for access to or within a development or turn lanes for a private project shall not qualify for fair share credit. (h) The following types of rezoning applications shall be required to submit a TIAR when required by this section, but shall not be required to perform area mitigation: (1) Residential or other rezonings where the applicant commits, and the conditions of zoning require, that the project earn at least two times the number of affordable housing credits otherwise required under chapter 11, County affordable housing policy, provided further that the applicant shall be entitled to the full amount of "excess credits" under section 11 -15, County affordable housing policy, based on the number of affordable housing credits normally required. (2) Rezoning to CV, CN, MCX, PD, or ML where the council determines that the project will reduce regional traffic congestion by providing necessary commercial or light industrial opportunities to serve an area where there is a shortage of available space zoned for such uses, and substantial residential development has already been approved, provided that conditions of zoning shall ensure that any commercial development be of a scale consistent with the standards of a "neighborhood center" as described in the general plan. (i) The restrictions on occupancy shall not apply to the construction of infrastructure such as water tanks, roads, sewage treatment plants, or other project elements that do not generate substantial traffic. (j) The council may designate critical road areas by ordinance. (k) In a critical road area, all rezonings shall be subject to local and area mitigation, except as stated in subsection (h). (1) In order to determine whether a rezoning application meets the TIAR threshold of fifty or more peak hour trips, and to prevent applicants from going below the TIAR threshold by dividing a project into segments, the director shall review all development proposed on the same or adjacent properties, and shall include traffic that may be generated by any development application approved after the effective date of this ordinance, or by any other pending development application, if it is on a portion of the same lot or tax map key parcel, or an adjoining lot or tax map key parcel, or in the immediate vicinity of the development. 3