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i <br /> i~ <br /> 3..1.2 Trip Generation Rates <br /> ~ When using Attachment 1 of this Appendix to determine the trip rate to be assigned to <br /> the proposed development, the City Traffic Engineer shall apply the description which <br /> rrjost nearly describes the type of development proposed by the applicant. If the <br /> proposed development is not represented on Attachment 1, the City's Traffic Engineer <br /> j will determine the rate. <br /> i <br /> ~i~2 Alternate Calculation _ <br /> Anytime prior to the issuance of a permit requiring payment of Transportation SDCs, an <br /> applicant may elect to use the Alternate Calculation method of determining the trip generation <br /> ~ for the type of development proposed, as provided in this paragraph 3.2. This election must <br /> be by written application to the City Traffic Engineer, must be accompanied with payment or <br /> the agreement to pay the transportation SDC using the Standard Calculation and must be <br /> approved by the City Traffic Engineer. Issuance of a final certificate of occupancy for the <br /> development will be contingent on a final decision by the City Traffic Engineer on the Alternate <br /> Calculation submitted for review. In the absence of the City Traffic Engineer's approval of the <br /> ~ applicant's election to use an Alternate Calculation, the Standard Calculation shall be used. <br /> All calpulations shall be based on the p.m. peak hour traffic on the adjacent street for a <br /> ~ genera'I type of development similar to the proposal and not on the p.m. peak hour traffic on <br /> the development site. <br /> 3.2.1 Existing Traffic Study Standards <br /> Ifi an applicant provides previously performed traffic studies that meet the standards in <br /> ' this paragraph and have been approved by the City Traffic Engineer, the trip rate based <br /> <br /> ~ upon those studies may be used to calculate the tCansportation SDC. Except that the <br /> studies may come from geographic locations other than those listed in paragraph <br /> 3.2.3.3, the studies shall meet the standards set in paragraph 3.2.3 and shall not be <br /> more than ten years. old. <br /> 3.2.2 Independent Traffic Study <br /> If an applicant does not want to use the trip generation rates in paragraph 3.1 nor to <br /> have the rate determined under paragraph 3.2.1, with the prior written approval of the <br /> ~ City Traffic Engineer by complying with the standards in paragraph 3.2.3 below the <br /> ~ applicant may conduct an independent survey of the proposed development's trip <br /> generation rate. <br /> 3.2.3 Transportation Traffic Study Criteria <br /> To be used to calculate the Transportation SDC for a proposed development under this <br /> paragraph 3.2, a transportation study must meet the following standards unless the <br /> City's Traffic Engineer modifies them because of unique circumstances: <br /> 3.2.3.1 Qualifications of Study <br /> The completed study must be stamped by either a licensed civil engineer <br /> qualified to conduct traffic studies or a licensed traffic engineer, who has been <br /> '3 ~ approved by the City's Traffic Engineer. <br /> i <br /> City of Eugene SDC Methodology Transportation, PageB-9 <br /> <br />