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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 2083 - Amending Title 11 ORDINANCE NO. ZOS 3 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF REDDING AMENDING TITLE 11, VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC, OF THE REDDING MUNICIPAL CODE BY ADDING A NEW CHAPTER 11.40 ENTITLED VEHICLE CONGESTION MANAGEMENT. The City Council of the City of Redding does hereby ordain as follows: Section 1. Title 11, Vehicles and Traffic, of the Redding Municipal Code is hereby amended by adding a new Chapter 11. 40, Vehicle Congestion Management, as set forth in Exhibit "A" attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference. Section 2. The City Council has determined that this matter is categorically exempt under the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act. Section 3. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Ordinance and cause its publication according to law. I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was introduced and read at a regular meeting of the City Council on the 3rd day of May_, 1994, and was duly read and adopted on the 17th day of Ray, , 1994, at a regular meeting of the City Council by the following vote: AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: P. Anderson, Kehoe, McGeorge, Murray and R. Anderson NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None ABSTAIN: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None ROBERT C. ANDERSON, Mayor City of Redding i ICEST: FORM APPROVED: � \ CONNIE STROHMAY City Clerk RA6ALL A. HAYS, City Attorney a� �i • • CHAPTER 11.40 ® e 0 Sections: 11.40.010 Purpose. 11.40.020 Applicability. 11.40.030 Definitions. 11.40.040 Requirements. 11.40.050 Performance Monitoring. 11.40.060 Public Education. 11.40.070 Violations and Enforcement. 11.40.010 Purpose. Understanding between the City of Redding and the AQMD. This chapter is enacted for the purpose of meeting the Trip Reduction and Travel Demand 11.40.030 Definitions. Management Ordinance requirements of the countywide Congestion Management Program as For the purposes of this chapter, the following adopted by the Shasta County Regional definitions apply: Transportation Planning Agency(RTPA)pursuant to Government Code 65089, et seq. This "Alternative Commute Mode" means bicycle, regulation is to improve air quality, minimize buspool,carpool,telecommuting,transit,vanpool, traffic congestion, and reduce the number of or walking. single-occupant motor vehicle trips taken by employees by encouraging ridesharing through "Congestion Management Agency" means that public education and requiring annual trip- regional agency referred to as the Regional reduction reports from significant vehicle trip Transportation Planning Agency (RTPA) generators. responsible for determining if the cities and County are complying with provisions of the 11.40.020 Applicability. Shasta County Congestion Management Program. This chapter shall be referred to as the "AQMD" means the Shasta County Air Quality "Congestion Management Program Trip Reduction Management District. and Travel Demand Management Ordinance" and applies to any significant trip generator as defined "Employer" means any person(s), firm, business, in Shasta County Air Quality Management District educational facility, nonprofit agency or (AQMD) Rule 3:24 and the definitions of this corporation, government agency, or other entity chapter. This ordinance applies to employers who which employs one (1) or more persons at a work have 100 or more employees (full-time, part-time, site. and temporary) within the City of Redding. It should be understood that although the City is "Employment Complex" means a place of mandated by State law to adopt the provisions of employment that may accommodate several this chapter, the Regional Transportation Planning employers all under one (1) structure or a group Agency (RTPA) has responsibility for the of structures where such structure(s) is owned or administration of each provision of the ordinance managed by a single entity. pursuant to the requirements of the Shasta County Congestion Management Plan. The AQMD has "Flexible Work Hours" means a work schedule accepted the responsibility for enforcement of the where employees are given the freedom to choose ordinance pursuant to the Memorandum of their starting and leaving times, as long as they EX...HIBIT • • CHAPTER 1 1.40 work the required number of hours and perform B. Each significant trip generator shall annually their responsibilities. provide to persons who arrive at the site a written notice which shall contain information "Ridesharing" means two (2) or more people on alternate commuting modes, commuter traveling together, including but not limited to matching services, carpooling, vanpooling, carpools, vanpools, buspools, taxipools, public public transit, bicycling routes, and incentives and private buses, and rail transit. on walking programs. "Significant Trip Generator"means any employer, C. AQMD Notification.- educational otification:educational facility, employment complex, or other entity identified by the AQMD that has 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of 100 or more persons scheduled to arrive at one(1) Subsection A(1) and (2), any significant site between the hours of 6 a.m. and 10 a.m., trip generator who becomes subject to Monday through Friday. this chapter due to an increase in work force, establishment of a new business, "Single-Occupant Motor Vehicle" means a motor or increase in facility use must notify the vehicle occupied by one (1) person. AQMD within six (6) months of becoming subject to Rule 3:24 and this "Site" means a building or grouping of buildings chapter. All notices shall be in writing located within the AQMD which are in actual and shall include the name of the physical contact or within walking distance— employer, business, or facility; mailing i.e., one-half (1/2) mile—of each other. address; the total number of persons arriving at the site between 6 a.m. and "Shasta County Regional Transportation Planning 10 a.m.; and the name of the supervising Agency (RTPA)"means the designated Congestion management person at the site. Management Agency for Shasta County. 2. To assist in identifying the significant "Telecommuting" means working at home or at a trip generators subject to this chapter, the satellite work station using electronic or other AQMD will publish an order to comply means to communicate with the usual place of with the provisions of the chapter during work or outside clients or customers. the first week of January of each year in a newspaper of general circulation. "Vanpooling" means several—typically six (6) or more—employees routinely utilizing a motor D. AQNID Review of Report. vehicle designed for carrying more than six (6) but fewer than sixteen (16) persons for work- After the significant trip generator submits a related transportation for the purpose of trip-reduction report, the AQMD will review ridesharing. the report with the staff of the Regional Transportation Planning Agency to analyze 11.40.040 Requirements. the progress being made at each specific site to reduce single-occupant motor vehicle trips. A. Trip Reduction Report. Suggestions may be offered by the AQMD on measures to be investigated for 1. Each significant trip generator shall implementation prior to the next annual submit an initial trip-reduction report to update of the report. the AQMD for review. E. Report Contents. 2. The report is due no later than 120 days after the significant trip generator has The report must include the following: received public notice or written notification that they are subject to the 1. The name of the individual to be provisions of this chapter. contacted concerning the report contents. CHAPTER 11 .40 2. An inventory of current measures used 3. A list of any special trip-reduction by the significant trip generator to reduce measures that are being implemented to single-occupant motor vehicle trips reduce motor vehicle trips in single- and/or traffic congestion. The measures occupant motor vehicles during the high may include one (1) or more of the ozone season (i.e., May through following: October). a. A monthly subsidy for a public 4. A list of any special trip-reduction transit pass. measures that are being implemented specifically to reduce motor vehicle trips b. Telecommuting program. in single-occupant motor vehicles during the lunch period each day. C. Guaranteed ride-home program. F. Trip Reduction Report Annual Update. d. Flex-time program. 1. Each significant trip generator must e. Compressed work-week schedule. review its implementation of trip- reduction measures and submit to the f. Financial travel allowances and AQMD annually, no later than rideshare subsidies. November 1st, a trip-reduction report update on a survey form to be provided g. Nonwork-related, lunchtime trip- by the AQMD. reduction program including bicycle and walking incentives listed in 2. The trip-reduction report update shall paragraph i; shuttle service to include information on the trip-reduction common local trip sites (shopping, measures implemented during the last restaurants, etc.); and on-site year since the previous report and amenities such as food services, quantify to the extent feasible any ATM machines, postal services, measured success of the program. The child-care services, fuel sales at cost update shall evaluate the strengths and from fleet pumps to carpools and weaknesses of the measures implemented vanpools; and gym or workout and provide a listing of any new or room. revised measures that will be implemented in the following year. h. Alternate mode commute time compensated (partially or fully) as G. Record-Keeping and Auditing. work time. 1. The significant trip generator shall keep i. Bicycling and walking incentives detailed records of all documents that and amenities such as bicycle may be used to verify the success of the lockers, on-site showers, subsidized trip-reduction program for a period of at walking shoes, bicycle parts and least two (2) years from the date of the repair program, and company applicable report. "fleet" bicycles for employee loan. 2. The AQMD has agreed to perform J. Development of a van or buspool random on-site audits at each significant program. trip generator site to verify the accuracy and completion of reports. k. Monthly or quarterly prize drawings for ridesharers. • CHAPTER 1 1.40 11.40.050 Performance Monitoring. 11.40.060 Public Education. A. In order to monitor the results of this traffic The AQMD has agreed to coordinate with control measure(TCM), the RTPA has agreed Caltrans Northstate Rideshare, Redding Area Bus to coordinate the following monitoring Authority(RABA),Anderson-Cottonwood Transit activities as appropriate and as needed on an (ACT), Regional Transportation Planning Agency annual basis: (RTPA), and other city, county, and regional agencies regarding the distribution of written 1. Spot traffic counts. information on alternate commute modes, commuter-matching services, carpooling, 2. Origin/destination studies. vanpooling, public transit, bicycle routes, etc., to employers, educational facilities, employment 3. Travel time and delay studies. complexes, and other entities that are smaller in size than the significant trip generators. 4. On- and off-street parking surveys. 11.40.070 Violations and Enforcement. 5. Vehicle-occupancy studies. A. It is a violation of this chapter if: 6. Home-based travel surveys. 1. A significant trip generator does not 7. On-board transit passenger counts and submit a trip-reduction report within surveys. 120 days of notification. B. The AQMD has agreed to annually review the 2. A significant trip generator does not transportation-related information provided in submit a trip-reduction report update the RTPA studies and surveys to determine annually no later than November 1. the progress being made in reducing single- occupant motor vehicle trips and associated 3. A significant trip generator fails to air emissions. maintain records or falsifies records. C. All significant trip generators shall cooperate 4. A significant trip generator does not to the extent feasible in providing information otherwise comply with this chapter. and site access to RTPA representatives in order to complete monitoring activities. B. Violations of this chapter are subject to the penalties outlined in Article 3, Chapter 4, Part 4 of Division 26 of the California Health and Safety Code and as otherwise provided in this code.■