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45 <br />PROPOSED ORDINANCE AMENDMENT <br />ORDINANCE: Subdivision Regulations <br />REFERENCE: Private Road Standards <br />�X� Staff �— Planning Board BOCC <br />ORIGIN OF AMENDMENT: Public _ Other: <br />STAFF PRIORITY RECOMMENDATION Comment Middle _X : <br />Low <br />EXPECTED -PUBLIC - <br />HEARING �DATE: <br />_ -- August -30,- 1990------------------ - - - - -- <br />PURPOSE OF AMENDMENT: <br />To consider the traffic impacts of efficienkcy apartments, duplexes, and <br />home occupations in determining the private road classification he reiremets <br />ate required for subdivision approval and elimirovedtby theuBoardnof that <br />Class A roads for minor subdivisions be app <br />Commissioners. <br />IMPACTS /ISSUES: <br />One of the Zoning Ordinance amendments presented on May 29, 1990 <br />whether <br />proposed that efficiency aear rrnt '.ttedsinpresidentialazones. The number of <br />detached or attached, b p <br />efficiency apartments may incrtheetraffic impactsaoftadditional considered <br />restrictions. To account f apartments be cons <br />dwelling units, it is proposed that efficiency aP rivate road. <br />in determining the appropriate classificaion for a pstructures and <br />It is also proposed that traffic generated <br />home occupations be considered. <br />According to the Trip Generation manual enerates Institute of <br />Engineers, a single - family residence g <br />trips per day. This figure declines by 3.4 trip s if there are no more <br />than 2' household members, and declines to theasizellimitationrOfs if <br />there is only one family vehicle. Du <br />efficiency apartments, it is expected generatedeby an f efficiency <br />apply, reducing the estimated traffic <br />one -half (1/2) of that expected <br />apartment to 5.7 trips per day, g Y <br />for a single - family residence. <br />The Trip Generation Manual includes trip rates for apartments buildings <br />containing 4 or mare dwelling units, s istlesscthanathataforess <br />duplex units. Trip generation for apartment <br />sin le- family units due to closer proximitsYoromursan centers, <br />g pedestrian trip <br />greater opportunities for p <br />these factors are would not apply for most of the areas in Orange <br />County where duplexes are permitted, it is presumed that the trip <br />generated by duplexes approximate that for single-family residences. <br />Little data is available for the amount of traffic generated by home <br />There is a wide range of uses which may qualify- One of <br />occupations. eneration be comparable to <br />the qualifying criteria is that traffic g <br />that for a residence. <br />