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Florence staff outline traffic‑impact rules, new regional study and funding gap for road projects
Summary
Town staff reviewed traffic impact analysis triggers, a town‑county coordinated update to the town’s transportation plan (Wilson & Company), and the town finance director summarized CIP balances and potential revenue options to address a projected $16.2 million shortfall over the next four years.
Town of Florence staff told a joint work session that the town has updated procedures to require traffic impact analyses for development proposals that meet standard trip‑generation thresholds and that the town has contracted Wilson & Company to update its 2020 transportation study to reflect new build‑out data, neighboring jurisdictions’ projects and multiple PUDs moving through the pipeline.
“Generally it is anything that would generate 100 trips within a peak hour [that] would be an instant flag for us to require the developer … supply us with a TIA,” said a town transportation presenter, describing the triggers staff now applies for Traffic Impact Analyses (TIAs). Staff also said larger projects that generate more than 500 peak‑hour trips are treated as higher‑level studies with additional scrutiny.
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