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Matthews staff outlines Transportation Impact Analysis process; council questions effectiveness
Summary
Town planning staff reviewed Matthews' Transportation Impact Analysis (TIA) process and proposed clarifications to the manual. Council members pressed staff on whether TIAs ever limit a project's scale and discussed options to strengthen mitigation and data collection.
Planning staff gave Matthews Town Council a detailed overview of Transportation Impact Analyses (TIAs) on Feb. 24, explaining how the town screens developments and uses TIAs to require off-site and on-site mitigation to lessen traffic impacts.
Susan Lutrick, planning staff, told the council the town adopted the current TIA process in 2021 and has since added collision and multimodal analyses. She said TIAs rely on existing counts, projected regional growth and standard trip-generation rates, and that developers pay the cost of preparing and of third‑party review of TIAs.
The presentation walked the council through the typical steps: a scoping meeting (often using NCDOT worksheets), field counts, capacity and queuing analyses, a build-plus-five-years scenario, collision analysis and multimodal gap assessment. Lutrick said the town asks that recommended mitigations be entered into…
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