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25 <br />guideline the following specific land use limitations can be considered for <br />undeveloped areas within both Orange County's and Hillsborough's jurisdiction. <br />The carrying capacity of the roadway network sets forth the constraints of <br />maximum development in a generalized EDD subregion. Additional background <br />traffic from other existing and proposed uses in the traffic feeder area is also part <br />of the overall traffic level of service equation. <br />See Appendix X for a scenario of traffic generations from potential projects within <br />portion of the Orange County EDD. The Hillsborough portion also compounds <br />the traffic impact in the subregion whereby an additional 10% increment to the <br />total traffic could be included in the subregional total to be approximated at <br />108,000 total trips. <br />Retail <br />20% n <br />Office /Flex <br />25% <br />Office <br />35 %. <br />Residential <br />15% <br />Miscellaneous <br />5% <br />6. Different non - residential uses have different traffic peak patterns. For <br />example, even though retail traffic has high volume, the volume is <br />distributed throughout the day from 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. with minor <br />peaks. In comparison office development has strong commuter hour <br />peaks in a.m. and p.m. that do not completely compound retail traffic. <br />7. Mixed -use development also permits some traffic to be 'captured' <br />internally to the EDD if there is a good interconnectivity road system <br />thereby reducing offsite impacts. <br />8. Access management systems should limit road and median cuts on <br />collector roads. <br />9. Frontage and service roads should contain and direct traffic throughout <br />the interconnected sites. <br />10. Nearby interstate interchanges will assist by immediately directing. regional <br />traffic to the interstate and reducing local road traffic. <br />11. Mass transportation and park and ride lots should be encouraged as well <br />as the employment of Traffic Demand Management (TDM) principles to <br />ameliorate traffic impact. <br />12. Residential development of a reasonably high density should also be <br />mixed in the EDD to encourage shop /work/live relationships and mass <br />transportation opportunities as well as pedestrian friendly planned <br />developments. <br />