TO:
Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
THROUGH:
David N. Carmany, City Manager
FROM:
Richard Thompson, Community Development Director
Angelica Ochoa, Assistant Planner
SUBJECT:Title
Public Hearing to Consider Resolution No. 13-0054 Determining that the City is in Compliance With the Program Requirements of the 2013 Congestion Management Program for Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
CONDUCT PUBLIC HEARING, ADOPT RESOLUTION NO. 13-0054
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Recommended Action
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that the City Council conduct the public hearing and adopt Resolution No. 13-0054 (Attachment 1) demonstrating the City's compliance with the program requirements of the 2013 Congestion Management Program (CMP).
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FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
Local jurisdictions are required to meet the program requirements identified in the CMP to continue to be eligible to receive Section 2105 gas tax funding. The City received $161,987 in Section 2105 Local Gas Tax funds for fiscal year 2012-2013.
BACKGROUND:
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Agency (MTA) is the agency responsible for monitoring and implementing the CMP for Los Angeles County. All local jurisdictions that receive Section 2105 Gas Tax funds are required to maintain and continue their CMP conformance. Cities are required to comply with the CMP requirements through a noticed public hearing adopting the Local Development Report (LDR), which tracks development activity and a Resolution certifying CMP responsibilities. The local jurisdiction’s governing body must approve the required documents. A public hearing notice was published in the Beach Reporter on August 15, 2013 to comply with the CMP requirements.
DISCUSSION:
Local Responsibility
Each jurisdiction is responsible for monitoring new developments and mitigating impacts on an annual basis. The MTA assigns traffic mitigation measures to individual jurisdictions based upon development activity. In 1983, The MTA established a debit and credit point system which places a specific debit value (traffic impact) for each type of development and establishes a mitigation goal for the jurisdiction. This system ensures that jurisdictions responsible for impacts will be assigned mitigation responsibilities for each project.
The CMP includes mitigation strategies which are categorized as land use, transportation demand management, transit, transportation system management, and capital improvement strategies. For example, some of these may include signal synchronization, signal upgrades, and bike and pedestrian improvements. Implementing these strategies would generate credits to offset debits accrued by new development.
The goal of the CMP is to mitigate congestion, establish credit values through implementation measures and, thus maintain a credit balance. The City currently has a credit balance of 2,008 points toward new development activity for future years and will remain the same for 2013. Since 2003, the City of Manhattan Beach has not accrued new credits or debits because the program has been suspended by the MTA.
2013 Changes
Since 2003, MTA has been conducting a Congestion Mitigation Fee Study to determine the feasibility of implementing a countywide traffic impact fee based on net new trips to meet CMP requirements, which will replace the credit/debit system. To date, the fee study has been completed and the findings and recommendations were presented to the MTA Board for approval at their June 2013 meeting. The MTA Board approved the recommendations. The MTA Board further directed the CEO to report back on the relevancy of the current CMP statue in meeting state and regional transportation objectives before implementation of the CMP Fee Program. This issue is scheduled to be further discussed and addressed at the February 2014 MTA Board meeting.
MTA staff has indicated that any new development activity reported this year will not be counted retroactively if the MTA decides to continue the credit/debit program at a future date. In order to stay in compliance and preserve the City’s eligibility for gas tax funds, the City must conduct a public hearing and continue to report their development activity through the Local Development Report (LDR).
2013 Local Development Report
The LDR for 2013 (Attachments 2, 4 and 5) reports new development activity and demolitions. The reporting period for the current LDR covers June 1, 2012 through May 31, 2013. The following summarizes the contents of this report.
Deficiency Plan Status Summary: This item (Section I, pg. 1) provides a summary of the City's CMP compliance for the required reporting period. The summary indicates the total number of units and square footage of new commercial development categories after adjusting the demolitions.
New Development Activity Report: This section (Section I, pg. 2) summarizes the City's development activity for the reporting period. This section is comprised of three reports, these are:
New Development Activity (Section I, pg. 2) - This section quantifies the total number of building permits issued between June 1, 2012 and May 31, 2013 by land use type. There were a total of 66 building permits issued including new single family and multi-family residences.
New Development Adjustments (Section I, pg. 3) - This section quantifies the total number of demolitions between June 1, 2012 and May 31, 2013 by land use type. There were a total of 65 demolition permits issued including new single family and multi-family residences.
Exempted Development Activity (Section I, pg. 4) – This section quantifies the total number of exemptions between June 1, 2012 and May 31, 2013. There were no projects qualifying under exemptions.
CMP Highway Monitoring Data (Attachment 3): This documents details the results of the City’s biennial highway monitoring data for 2013. This report complies with the CMP requirements and is completed every odd numbered year.
CONCLUSION:
With the adoption of the attached Resolution (Attachment 1), and submittal of the Local Development Report (LDR), the City of Manhattan Beach is in compliance with the 2013 Congestion Management Program requirements.
Attachments:
1. CMP Resolution
2. 2013 Local Development Report (LDR)
3. CMP Highway Monitoring Data
4. 2012-2013 Non-residential Development Activity
5. 2012-2013 Residential Development Activity