Chapter 10.80
TRIP REDUCTION
Sections:
10.80.030 Sonoma County transportation authority.
10.80.040 Trip reduction requirements.
10.80.010 Short title.
The provisions of this chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “City of Cotati Trip Reduction Ordinance (TRO).” (Ord. 785 § 1(part), 2006).
10.80.020 Authority.
This chapter is authorized under Chapter 2.6 of Division 1 of Title 7 of the Government Code (Government Code Sections 65000 et seq.) and Streets and Highways Code Section 2105. (Ord. 785 § 1(part), 2006).
10.80.030 Sonoma County transportation authority.
This chapter incorporates the Sonoma County transportation authority (SCTA) minimum trip reduction and travel demand requirements. (Ord. 785 § 1(part), 2006).
10.80.040 Trip reduction requirements.
The following trip reduction requirements are established and are imposed upon employers within the city:
A. This chapter shall apply to all employers within the city with one hundred or more employees at an individual job site. Where such an employer has multiple job sites, only those sites which have one hundred or more employees are subject to this chapter.
B. Each employer subject to this chapter may elect to disseminate trip reduction information regarding transportation alternatives including carpools, vanpools, transit and bicycling and other methods of reducing trips such as telecommuting, compressed work week, and flexible work hours annually to each employee and to all new employees as they are hired.
C. Each employer subject to this chapter may elect to annually conduct an employee trip survey using a uniform survey form prepared by the Sonoma County transportation authority. A summary of the trip survey results may be submitted annually to the city. An eighty percent trip survey response rate is a desired goal. The city shall prepare an overall summary of all surveys which will then be reported annually to the Sonoma County transportation authority.
D. The city shall designate a transportation administration to be responsible for implementing the trip reduction ordinance, as codified in this chapter.
E. Each employer subject to this chapter may designate a transportation coordinator to be responsible for administering the employer requirements of this chapter. Each transportation coordinator shall be required to complete a training course approved by the Sonoma County transportation authority.
F. The desired trip reduction goal is a five percent reduction in trips per year to a maximum of fifty percent reduction in trips based upon the first year of reporting. (Ord. 785 § 1(part), 2006).
10.80.050 Nonduplication.
If any other agency which has jurisdiction over trip reduction requirements for employers within the city adopts trip reduction requirements that meet or exceed the requirements of this chapter, then any employer within the city that meets those requirements will be deemed to be meeting the requirements of this chapter by annually forwarding to the city a copy of all trip reduction information and documentation required by the other agency. (Ord. 785 § 1(part), 2006).