Chapter 10.32
TRIP REDUCTION PROGRAM
Sections:
10.32.040 Review and evaluation of the transportation plan.
10.32.050 Compliance with requirements.
10.32.010 Purpose.
A. Reduce the total number of single occupant vehicle trips associated with home to work commuting which will reduce vehicle emissions and traffic congestion;
B. Increase public awareness of the nexus between air pollution and automobile usage;
C. Increase public awareness of transportation alternatives to the single-occupant vehicle;
D. Implement general plan policy II.A.7. of the transportation and circulation element which requires city compliance with and implementation of the programs and policies of the Yolo County Congestion Management Plan (CMP);
E. Implement general plan policy III.C.l. of the transportation and circulation element which requires the city to encourage and support programs that will increase ridesharing;
F. Achieve an average vehicle ridership (AVR) of 1.5 by 1999 for employers of more than one hundred (100) employees as mandated by the California Clean Air Act. This objective shall be reached through the following schedule:
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July 1, 1993 |
1.05 AVR |
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July 1, 1995 |
1.20 AVR |
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July 1, 1997 |
1.35 AVR |
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July 1, 1999 |
1.50 AVR |
“Average vehicle ridership” means the figure derived by dividing the employee population at a target worksite that reports to work during the a.m. peak period i.e., weekdays from six a.m. to nine-thirty p.m., by the number of vehicles driven by these employees commuting from home to the worksite during these hours. Bicycles, transit vehicles, buses serving several worksites, and cars stopping on route to other worksites shall be excluded from the vehicles counted. (Ord. 92-09 (part): prior code § 6-8.01)
10.32.020 Applicability.
A. Existing and future public/private employers who employ twenty-five (25) or more employees (except contractors and businesses without a permanent work place) including part-time employees who work at least twenty (20) hours per week.
B. Exemptions:
1. Temporary construction activities, including activities performed by engineers, architects, contractors, subcontractors, and construction workers when such activities are related to the construction, development or the improvement to real property;
2. Other temporary activities which employ persons for a period of less than ninety (90) days. (Ord. 92-09 (part): prior code § 6-8.02)
10.32.030 Requirements.
A. Employers with twenty-five (25) to ninety-nine (99) employees:
1. Posting: post information materials provided by the community development department and/or Sacramento Rideshare to encourage ridesharing. Information material may include:
a. Current schedules, rates (including procedures for obtaining transit passes), and routes of mass transit service to the common work location or employment site,
b. Posters or flyers encouraging the use of ridesharing and referrals to sources of information concerning ridesharing;
2. Commuter matching service: disseminate annually to all employees, and new employees when hired, written information provided by the community development department and/or Sacramento Rideshare regarding the Sacramento Rideshare Program. This program is an area wide ridesharing matching service provided by the California Department of Transportation.
B. Employers with one hundred (100) or more employees:
1. Posting: post in a conspicuous place or places information materials provided by the community development department and/or Sacramento Rideshare to encourage ridesharing. Information material may include:
a. Current schedules, rates (including procedures for obtaining transit passes), and routes of mass transit service to the common work location or employment site,
b. Posters or flyers encouraging the use of ridesharing and referrals to sources of information concerning ridesharing;
2. Commuter matching service: disseminate annually to all employees, and new employees when hired, written information provided by the community development department and/or Sacramento Rideshare regarding the Sacramento Rideshare Program. This program is an area wide ridesharing matching service provided by the California Department of Transportation.
3. Ridesharing coordinator (commute coordinator): designate an employee or other appropriate person to serve as a commute coordinator. The commute coordinator’s responsibilities are to include:
a. Publicize the availability of public transportation;
b. Communicate employee needs to the community development department;
c. Assist employees in forming carpools or vanpools.
4. Annual Transportation Report. The purpose of the annual transportation report is to document the AVR rating for major employers and to require employers who do not meet the scheduled AVR to implement a trip reduction program.
a. Description: of the activity and operating characteristics of the proposed project (i.e., business hours and peak hours of traffic generation).
b. Annual transportation survey: to be conducted in order to determine AVR rating. This rating will be calculated as follows:
Number of workers commuting to a work site during the morning commute, totaled over five consecutive weekdays, divided by the number of vehicles those workers drive, totaled over the same five days.
Only for employers who are under the AVR objective:
c. Trip Reduction Program. Should annual transportation survey result in an AVR rating less than the objective rate as stated in Section 10.32.010(F) employer will be required to construct and implement a trip reduction program which will include any reasonable combination of transportation control measures to meet the AVR goals described in Section 10.32.010(F). The community development department is available to project applicants to assist with the development of the program. This program will be reviewed on a yearly basis by the community development department for compliance with AVR goals.
The trip reduction program can include a combination of the following transportation control measures:
i. Carpooling:
(A) Carpool and vanpool matching service;
(B) Providing carpool and vanpool vehicles;
(C) Carpool and vanpool operating subsidies (fuel, insurance, etc.);
(D) Carpool/vanpool preferential parking location.
ii. Transit:
(A) Subscription bus service;
(B) Shuttle bus service;
(C) Transit fare subsidy;
(D) Transit stop amenities;
(E) Agreements with local operators for additional service.
iii. Implementation support:
(A) Parking, showers, and lockers for bicyclists;
(B) Guaranteed ride home for commute alternative users;
(C) On-site child care and convenience services and stores that lesson need for personal vehicles at work;
(D) Posting information about commute alternatives;
(E) Publicity (newsletters articles, flyers, etc.);
(F) Commute alternatives information centers.
iv. Other incentives: employee transportation allowance.
v. Other alternatives:
(A) Flextime to allow commute alternatives schedules (e.g. to match transit schedules);
(B) Compressed work week;
(C) Telecommuting.
The city supports the goals of this chapter and as a public employer shall be subject to its provisions. (Ord. 92-09 (part); prior code § 6-8.03)
10.32.040 Review and evaluation of the transportation plan.
A. Existing Employers. All employers required to complete a transportation report shall submit such reports to the community development department annually by July 1st.
B. Condition of Approval. Mitigation measures designed to achieve the trip reduction objectives established in a transportation report are to be included as conditions of approval for an application under consideration or may be terms of a development agreement between the city and a project applicant. Under circumstances where the project applicant is not the ultimate user, the conditions of approval are to include a requirement that the mitigation measures in the transportation report be recorded as covenants, conditions, or restrictions on subsequent users of the property and become part of the lease agreement. (Ord. 92-09 (part); prior code § 6-8.04)
10.32.050 Compliance with requirements.
A. Compliance with Requirements. All existing employers of twenty-five (25) or more employees shall comply with the provisions of this chapter within six months of the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter.
The community development department will periodically review compliance with chapter requirements. Review may include on-site checks at the common work location or employment site as well as annual review of compliance with the transportation plan. In the event of non-compliance, the community development department will issue a letter specifying the points of noncompliance.
B. Effect of Receipt of a Letter of Noncompliance. Upon receipt of a letter of noncompliance, the applicant, and all successors in interest of the applicant obligated to carry out the transportation plan are to comply with the provisions as set forth in the letter of noncompliance within thirty (30) days, unless an appeal is filed.
C. Penalty. In the event of failure to comply with the requirements of this chapter or the terms of a transportation plan, the city may impose the following penalties:
1. Any penalty which may be imposed under the zoning code;
2. Any penalty as set forth in the transportation plan agreement, if any;
3. By any other remedy provided by the law.
D. Enforcement. The provisions of this chapter will be administered and enforced by the city community development department. (Ord. 92-09 (part); prior code § 6-8.05)