18.185.060 Mitigation requirements/conditions of approval.
A. Mitigation shall ensure that the transportation facilities are providing adequate capacity and safety concurrent with the land use action or development of the property.
B. The city may deny, approve, or approve a land use action or development proposal with appropriate conditions.
C. The TIS shall identify methods of mitigating on-site and off-site deficiencies for present and proposed phases of the land use action or development.
D. Build-out year, long-range forecast year, and project phasing impacts shall be considered.
E. Mitigation measures may also include, but are not limited to:
1. Where the existing transportation system will be impacted by the proposed development, dedication of land for streets, transit facilities, sidewalks, bikeways, paths, or accessways may be required to ensure that the transportation system is adequate to handle the additional burden caused by the proposed use.
2. Where the existing transportation system is shown to be burdened by the proposed use, improvements such as paving, curbing, installation or contribution to traffic signals, construction of sidewalks, bikeways, accessways, paths, or streets that serve the proposed use may be required.
3. Where planned local street connectivity is required to improve local circulation for the betterment of interchange function, local street system improvements will be required.
4. Mitigation measures may also include additional street connections and street extensions, turn lanes, signalization, signal modifications, installation of medians, shared access and other access management strategies, geometric improvements such as lane geometry improvements, and intersection realignments.
F. The TIS shall demonstrate how the recommended mitigations are roughly proportional to the identified impacts. [Ord. 911 § 1, 2016; Ord. 817 § 8-3L.960, 2006.]