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Committee recommends citywide TDM framework to council with monitoring caveats
Summary
The Transportation Committee reviewed a proposed citywide Transportation Demand Management ordinance framework that would require ADT reductions for new developments and recommended the framework to council while emphasizing enforceability and monitoring needs.
The City Council Transportation Committee voted to recommend a proposed framework for a citywide Transportation Demand Management (TDM) ordinance to the full City Council, while several members urged clearer enforcement and monitoring mechanisms before final adoption.
Transportation planner Ben Pacham presented the framework on behalf of Public Works and planning staff. The draft ordinance would screen new discretionary projects using trip‑generation estimates and require projects that generate more than 200 net new average daily trips (ADT) to submit and implement a TDM plan. The framework uses ADT as the principal performance metric — rather than peak‑hour counts — to reflect post‑COVID travel patterns…
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