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HomeMy WebLinkAbout02-11 Transportation Demand Management StandardsORDINANCE NO. 02-11 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA, CALIFORNIA AMENDING TITLE 13 OF THE COSTA MESA MUNICIPAL CODE REGARDING TRANSPORTATION DEMAND MANAGEMENT STANDARDS. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Title 13 of the Costa Mesa Munici.pal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: a. Amend Section 13-193 as follows: "Sec. 13-193. PURPOSE This article is intended to meet the requirements of State Government Code Section 65089(b)(3) which requires development of a trip reduction and travel demand element to the Congestion Management Program and Section 65089.3(b) which requires adoption and implementation of Trip Reduction and Travel Demand Ordinance, and Orange County Transportation Authority's Growth Management Ordinance Policy Resolution 3, Section II.CA .b.(ii), which requires adoption of Local Transportation Demand Management Program approved by the Authority." b. Amend Section 13-196(6)(2) as follows: "(2) Employment projections developed by the City using the following employee generation factors: 3Comm��rcral Uss 3 j�eneratronFiatellPopiatrin Density Str�ard' ..... ,., General Retail 1 Employee/450 square feet Restaurant 1 Employee/450 square feet Service uses 1 Employee/333 square feet Corporate Headquarters 1 Employee/337 square feet Office 1 Employee/300 square feet Retail Shopping Center 1 Employee/500 square feet Hotel 1 Employee/2.5 Rooms Performing Arts Theatre 1 Employee/2,500 square feet nclus rral us�s NO I Generation Ft teC/Popu[ tl In � nsixy ,an, rdsP�'' q Light Industry 1 Employee/470 square feet Industrial Park 1 Employee/420 square feet Office 1 Employee/300 square feet Warehouse 1 Employee/750 square feet Manufacturing 1 Employee/300 square feet c. Amend Section 13-197 to read as follows: "Sec. 13-197. FACILITY STANDARDS All applicable developments shall be subject to the facility standards as specified in this section and shall provide all the improvements identified in either subsection (a) or subsection (b), as determined by the City of Costa Mesa: (a) Option A (1) Preferential parking for carpool vehicles: a. At least 15 percent of the employee parking spaces shall be reserved and designated for carpool vehicles by marking such spaces "Carpool Only". b. Carpool spaces shall be used only by carpool vehicles in which at least 2 of the persons will be employees or tenants of the proposed project, or where a reciprocal preferential carpool parking agreement with other developments has been established. 2 C. Such carpool spaces shall be located near the building's employee entrance(s) or at other preferential locations within the employee parking areas as approved by the Planning Division. (The intent of this section is not to preclude parking agreements for visitors and handicapped, but to provide preferential carpool parking within the general employee parking areas. The factors listed below shall be used to determine the number of employee parking spaces.) d. The total number of employee parking spaces shall be determined by using the following factors as specified in CHAPTER VI OFF-STREET PARKING STANDARDS. Type of Use Percent of Total Parking Devoted to Employee Parking Commercial 30% Regional Community Neighborhood Office/Professional 85% Industrial/Warehouse 90% (2) Bicycle parking and shower facilities. Bicycle parking and locker facilities shall be provided in a secure location for use by employees or tenants who commute to the site by bicycle or walk in accordance with the following standards: a. The number of bicycle facilities/racks shall be provided at the rate of at least one rack for every 20 employees. b. A minimum of 2 showers shall be provided, one each for female and male employees. (3) Information on transportation alternatives. a. A commuter information area shall be provided that offers employees appropriate information on available transportation alternatives to the single occupant vehicle. This area shall be centrally located and accessible to all employees or tenants. b b. Information in the area shall include, but not be limited to, the following: i. Current maps, routes and schedules for public transit. ii. Ridesharing match lists. iii. Available employee incentives. iv. Ridesharing promotional material supplied by commuter oriented organizations. (5) Rideshare vehicle loading areas. 3 a. The need for, design, and location of passenger loading areas for passengers to embark and disembark from rideshare vehicles shall be reviewed by the Transportation Services Manager. b. Passenger loading areas shall be of a size large enough to accommodate the number of waiting vehicles equivalent to the rate of at least 5 spaces per every 100 of the required parking spaces for the project. C. The passenger loading areas shall be located as close as possible to the building's employee entrance(s), and should be designed in a manner that does not impede vehicular circulation in the parking area. (5) Vanpool vehicle accessibility. a. The need for, design, and location of passenger loading areas for passengers to embark and disembark from vanpool vehicles shall be reviewed by the Transportation Services Manager. b. The design of all parking facilities shall incorporate provisions for access and parking of vanpool vehicles. C. Where applicable, vanpool vehicle accessibility shall include a minimum of 7 feet and 2 inches vertical clearance for those parking spaces and ramps to be used by such vehicles. d. Vanpool parking spaces shall be located near the building's employee entrance(s) or other preferential locations as approved by the Transportation Services Manager. e. The number of accessible vanpool parking spaces shall be at the rate of at least two spaces per every 100 of the total required employee car pool parking spaces as determined in Section 13-197(a)(1)(d) FACILITY STANDARDS. (6) Bus stop improvements. a. The need for, design and location of potential improvements at area bus stops shall be reviewed by the Transportation Services Manager. b. Bus stop improvements shall be determined in conformance with standard traffic engineering principles including, but not limited to, the following: The frequency and relative impact of blocked traffic due to stopped buses; ii. The level of transit ridership at the locations. (b). Option B. (1) Reserved parking spaces. A percentage of parking spaces, located as close as is practical to the entrance(s) of the use they are intended to serve, shall be reserved for use of carpool and vanpool vehicles, as determined by the Transportation Services Manager; 4 (2) Bicycle parking. Secure, adequate and convenient storage shall be provided for bicycles; (3) Bus improvements. Bus bays, bus stops and bus shelters shall be provided adjacent to roads and streets traversing, or bounding.the development project, as determined by the Transportation Services Manager;' (4) Transportation information. A transportation information center shall be provided within each building of over 25,000 gross square feet; (5) Employee locker rooms. A shower and locker room facility for employees of each sex shall be provided in each building of 100,000 or more gross square feet. For any development project containing 100,000 or more total combined gross square feet, but which does not contain any single building of 100,000 or more gross square feet, the final review authority may elect, at its discretion, to require the provision of shower and locker room facilities; and (6) Sidewalks. Sidewalks or other paved pathways following direct and safe routes shall be provided from the external pedestrian circulation system to each building in the development project." d. Delete Section 13-198 and reserve for future use. Section 2. Environmental Determination. The project has been reviewed for compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), the CEQA Guidelines, and the City's environmental procedures, and has been found to be exempt. Section 3. Inconsistencies. Any provision of the Costa Mesa Municipal Code or appendices thereto inconsistent with the provisions of this Ordinance, to the extent. of such inconsistencies and no further, is hereby repealed or modified to the extent necessary to affect the provisions of this Ordinance. Section 4. Severability. If any chapter, article, section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase, or portion of this Ordinance, -or the application thereof to any person, is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portion of this Ordinance or its application to other persons. The City Council hereby declares that it would have adopted this Ordinance and each chapter, article, section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase or portion thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or. more subsections, subdivi- sions, sentences, clauses, phrases, or portions of the application thereof to any person, be declared invalid or unconstitutional. No portion of this Ordinance shall supersede any local, State, or Federal law, regulation, or codes dealing with life safety factors. Section 5. Publication. The Mayor shall sign and the City Clerk shall certify to the passage and adoption of this Ordinance and shall cause the same to be s published and posted pursuant to the provisions of law in that regard and this Ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days after its final passage. PASSED AND ADOPTED this 17th day of June, 200 ATTEST: �L Ci y Clerk of the City of Costa Mes�Lj STATE OF CALIFORNIA) COUNTY OF ORANGE) ss CITY OF COSTA MESA) Mayor of the City of Costa Mesa APPROVED AS TO FORM: City Attorney�- I, RUTH DELANEY, Acting Deputy City Clerk and ex -officio clerk of the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa, hereby certify that the above and foregoing Ordinance No. 02-11 was introduced and considered section by section at a regular meeting of said City Council held on the 3 d day of June, 2002, and thereafter passed and adopted as a whole at a regular meeting of said City Council held on the 17th day of June, 2002, by the following roll call vote: AYES: NOES: d04E- ABSENT: ►jt)qE-- IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the City of Costa Mesa this 18" day of June, 2002. Deputy City Clerk x -officio CI rk of the City Council oft C ty of Costa Mesa - 6