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Council asks staff for more analysis on traffic guidelines, flags recreational‑seasonal ITE code
Summary
Staff presented draft Transportation Impact Analysis (TIA) guidelines; council directed staff and consultants to return with comparative scenarios, underlying trip‑count data and options to default to single‑family ITE rates rather than the recreational/seasonal category (ITE code 260).
City staff presented a draft Transportation Impact Analysis (TIA) guidelines document and council spent extensive time questioning assumptions about which Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) land‑use codes to apply to McCall developments.
Morgan Stroud, City Engineer, explained the draft guidance is intended to give staff and developers a consistent framework for scoping traffic studies, collecting counts and analyzing impacts. He said the document includes flexibility to require additional scope during project review and suggests considering an alternate ITE category sometimes labeled "recreational/seasonal" (ITE land use code 260) for certain residential uses.
Why it matters: Council members raised concerns that code 260 may understate trip generation for McCall, where short‑term…
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