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Planning Commission hears plan to replace LOS with VMT and adopt TDM ordinance
Summary
City staff outlined a Transportation Sustainability Program to shift CEQA transportation analysis from level-of-service to vehicle-miles-traveled and to create a new Transportation Demand Management ordinance using parking-based targets and a points menu; commissioners asked for monitoring, TNC study, and clearer compliance rules.
San Francisco planning and transit staff told the Planning Commission on Feb. 11 that the city is preparing to replace automobile delay (level of service) with vehicle-miles-traveled (VMT) for transportation impact analysis and to pursue an ordinance that would require developers to meet site-based VMT/trip-reduction targets.
The Transportation Sustainability Program presentation said state guidance and rulemaking (OPR) point the region toward VMT as CEQA’s threshold for transportation impacts. Carly Payne of SFMTA described three TSP components: Align…
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