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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 />most 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 />will determine the rate. <br />3.2 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 calculations shall be based on the p.m. peak hour traffic on the adjacent street for a <br />general 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 />If an applicant provides previously pertormed traffic studies that meet the. standards in <br />this paragraph and have been approved by the City Traffic Engineer, the trip rate based <br />upon those studies may be used to calculate the transportation 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 tk~e 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 />approved by the City's Traffic Engineer. <br />City of Eugene SDC Methodology Transportation, PageB-9 <br />