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© M I � V Infrastructure Minutes <br />April 10, 1990 <br />to assess traffic impact. Gene Bell told that committee that the <br />Traffic Impact Study Provision came out of the Planning Board's <br />Ordinance Review Committee; to carry out a Traffic Impact Study, it <br />would require an engineer or professional transportation planner to <br />study the impacts. There are 6 regulations that need to be satisfied: <br />1) A general site description, <br />2) An inventory of transportation facilities, internal and <br />external to the project, <br />3) Existing traffic conditions - things such as volumes and levels <br />of service, <br />4) The transportation impact of the development, <br />5) The transportation impact of the existing, as well as proposed <br />traffic, and <br />6) Recommendations for how to cope with these impacts. <br />Gene then passed out a handout entitled "Levels of Service" (Handout <br />#1). This is an excerpt from a consultant's study done on traffic <br />impact in Orange County. Basically, if traffic impact is below level D <br />in an urban setting or below level C in a rural setting, this would <br />require a traffic impact study and recommendation. The thresholds <br />generally accepted in this document are: <br />80 units of residential development <br />130 units of apartment development <br />150 units in a mobile home park <br />Any shopping center <br />Page 7 <br />