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City staff previews Transportation Sustainability Program and proposed TSF fee; public debate centers on impacts for eastside neighborhoods
Summary
Planning staff outlined a three‑part Transportation Sustainability Program — CEQA reform to VMT, a TDM menu for developers and a new Transportation Sustainability Fee (TSF) — proposing roughly $7.74/sq ft for market‑rate residential projects and projecting $1.2 billion over 30 years; neighbors pressed for more outreach and targeted spending for areas already strained by development.
City planning staff on Aug. 6 delivered a detailed briefing on the Transportation Sustainability Program, a package of policy changes and fees officials say are needed to fund transit capacity and to change how the city evaluates transportation impacts under CEQA.
In a presentation to the Planning Commission, Wade Wykreff and colleagues summarized three pillars of the effort: replace the longstanding Level‑of‑Service metric under CEQA with a vehicle‑miles‑traveled (VMT) standard (in response to Senate Bill 743), create a firm Transportation Demand Management (TDM) menu of onsite measures developers must implement, and expand the city’s existing transit impact fee into a new Transportation Sustainability Fee (TSF) on market‑rate residential…
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