Naples council sends updated traffic‑impact study rules to planning board for refinement

May 6, 2026

Council gave staff and Johnson Engineering direction to send an updated Traffic Impact Study ordinance to the Planning Advisory Board. The draft replaces acreage thresholds with four trip‑generation tiers, adds peak‑season/directional analysis, multimodal and crash‑history review, and a developer‑paid third‑party audit option.

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Johnson Engineering presented revised Traffic Impact Study (TIS) requirements designed to modernize how the city evaluates transportation impacts from development. The proposed rules replace the old acreage thresholds with four tiers based on net new peak‑hour trip generation (de minimis: <=10 trips; small: <50; minor: 50–99; major: 100+). Johnson Engineering also proposed:

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