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the regional road network to mitigate the problem, or you wait until improvements have been made that take away the Level of Service deficiency. SIRACUSA:I -? YUEN:Yes? Why dont we take questions. We can take questions as I go along. You have a question? SIRACUSA:Okay. Its my impression that when youre talking about roads here youre only talking about major arterials, County and State Highways, and not smaller roads which may be County-owned but would go into say cul-de-sac subdivisions. Is that a correct assessment? YUEN:No. As far as the regional roads, yes. It would only be the arterial roads,themainhighways.Itsaysarterialandcollectorroads.Butyouwouldstill,ifyou had a project on a small street that could generate 100 or more trips per day (sic), this would say you should do a traffic study; and if that would congest that road, then you would do the local mitigation for that. But you wouldnt have somebody go fix, well, you can make them fix the road that theyre on as part of the local mitigation. SIRACUSA:Im thinking in terms of roads, obviously Im thinking of roads where I live, single lane dirt road; and 100 trips per a day is ridiculous. I mean when five new subdivisions were approved, you know, 20 cars made a humongous difference. And so it seems that youre not taking scale into consideration here, that in some areas 100 trips may be a perfectly reasonable way of gauging this. But in other areas, 50 or even 20 trips would be a tremendous impact. And there doesnt seem to be a lot of flexibility. And when I was reading through here, and you talked about things being vague. To me, it was that they were allowing for some flexibility because some of these situations are so different from one community and one area to another. And how do we walk that thin line of balancing, you know, being really specific and on allowing enough variation to allow for different regions and their own specific layouts and problems? YUEN:None of these bills is intended to answer all of the issues that may come up during a rezoning request. So, for example, in a situation you gave where if somebody is applying for a rezoning on say a one-lane road that is just not suitable for that level of development, then regardless of whether you have a concurrency ordinance or not, the right response is to deny the rezoning because the road is not adequate to serve the proposed project. The reason to have a cutoff for doing the traffic report is that the traffic report studies congestion. The TIAR may refer to the type of road thats in front of the project, but the TIAR only tells you about congestion. The TIAR doesnt tell you, you know, theres a 40-foot drop off the shoulder. Okay? So it doesnt solve those kinds of issues. And those things are still out there; and you have to use common sense and judgment in analyzing any rezoning. This only deals with the question of traffic congestion and how it may affect the local and the regional road networks. 4EXHIBIT D