The Ventura County Transportation Commission (VCTC) is responsible
for the preparation of the Congestion Management Plan (CMP) for Ventura
County. Among the State-mandated elements of the CMP is a Trip Reduction
and Travel Demand Management Element that promotes alternative transportation
methods, such as carpools, vanpools, transit, bicycles, walking and
park-and-ride lots, improvement in the balance between jobs and housing,
and other strategies, including flexible work hours, telecommuting
and parking management programs. The goals and policies of the CMP
also support the increased use of low and no emission vehicles. The
VCTC must also determine annually whether the County and cities within
the County are conforming to the CMP, including the requirement to
adopt and implement a Travel Demand Management Ordinance (TDM Ordinance)
to improve both congestion and air quality.
This chapter is intended to promote trip reduction and travel
demand measures in the City and meet the Travel Demand Management
Facilities Ordinance adoption requirement as set out in the Ventura
County Congestion Management Program. The requirements of Ventura
County Air Pollution Control District (District) Rule 210 are separate
from this chapter, and administrated by the District. This chapter
sets forth the minimum requirements for meeting the CMP. Employers
are encouraged to offer or provide additional inducements to use alternatives
to single-occupant vehicles to their employees necessary to meet Rule
210 requirements.
(§ 1, Ord. 702, eff. December 24, 1993)
The following words or phrases shall have the following meanings
when used in this chapter:
means the use of modes of transportation other than the single
passenger motor vehicle, including, but not limited to, carpools,
vanpools, buspools, public transit, walking and bicycling.
means any development project that is determined to meet
or exceed the project size threshold criteria contained in Article
2 of this chapter.
means a vehicle with more than 16 seating positions used
and maintained primarily for carrying commuters to and from work.
is a statute that requires all jurisdictions in the State
of California to evaluate the extent of environmental degradation
posed by proposed development.
means a vehicle occupied by two or more persons aged 16 years
or older commuting to or from work and/or school.
shall mean the builder who is responsible for the planning,
design and construction of an applicable development project. A developer
may be responsible for implementing the provisions of this chapter
as determined by the property owner.
means the construction or addition of new building square
footage. Additions to buildings which existed prior to the adoption
of the ordinance codified in this chapter and which exceed the thresholds
defined in Article 2 shall comply with the applicable requirements
but shall not be added cumulatively with existing square footage;
existing square footage shall be exempt from these requirements. All
calculations shall be based on gross square footage.
means the portion of total required parking at a development
used by onsite employees. For information purposes, based upon information
developed by the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), broad
employee parking needs could be calculated as follows:
|
Type of Use
|
Percent of Total Required Parking Devoted to Employees
|
|---|---|
|
Commercial
|
30%
|
|
Office/professional
|
85%
|
|
Industrial/manufacturing
|
95%
|
means a location in a community where facilities are provided
either by public or private means for shared employee work activities.
means parking spaces designated or assigned, through use
of a sign or painted space markings, for carpool and vanpool vehicles
carrying commute passengers on a regular basis that are provided in
a location more convenient to a place of employment than parking spaces
provided for single occupant vehicles.
means the legal owner of a development who serves as the
lessor to a tenant. The property owner shall be responsible for complying
with the provisions of this chapter either directly or by delegating
such responsibility as appropriate to a tenant and/or his agent.
means transit services provided by public agencies for the
general public on a regular basis by vehicles, such as buses or trains,
usually on a fare-paying basis.
means the lessee of facility space at an applicable development
project.
means the alteration of travel behavior, usually on the part
of commuters, through programs of incentives, services and policies.
TDM addresses alternatives to single occupant vehicles such as carpooling
and vanpooling, and changes in work schedules that move trips out
of the peak period or eliminate them altogether (for example telecommuting
or compressed work weeks).
means reduction in the number of work-related trips made
by single occupant vehicles.
means a group of at least seven commuters traveling to work
in a vehicle designed for carrying more than six but less than 16
persons, including the driver, which is maintained and used primarily
for work-related transportation of adults for the purpose of ridesharing.
means a device by which any person or property may be propelled,
moved, or drawn upon a highway, excepting a device moved exclusively
by human power, used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks,
or buses used for public or private transit. Examples include, but
are not limited to passenger cars, motorcycles, vans, recreational
vehicles and pickup trucks.
is the authority created by the California State Legislature
to meet federal standards and otherwise improve air quality in the
Ventura County portion of the South Central Coast Air Basin.
(§ 1, Ord. 702, eff. December 24, 1993)
