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13 SECTION D Project Approach and Understanding RFQ # 21-11-01 PROFESSIONAL PLANNING AND ZONING CONSULTING SERVICES, CIVIL AND TRAFFIC ENGIEERING ► Trip Generation Impact - ITE Trip Generation Manual 10th Edition Evaluating the impact for development/redevelopment begins with calculating the new trips that are generated by the project. Trip generation calculations for the proposed development should be completed using the relevant land use code for the submitted development application per the Institute of Transportation Engineers' (ITE) Trip Generation Manual, 10th Edition. Appropriate adjustments are calculated based on passby, internal capture and multimodal factors. On redevelopment projects, the existing land that is being eliminated is provided as a credit in the trip generation calculations. Therefore, the net trips are used in the traffic analysis for the future scenarios. ► Transportation Demand Management Strategies Transportation Demand Management (TDM) Strategies are proposed for development projects to reduce their impacts on the surrounding road network. The typical measures tend to promote bicycle use and walking, using transit, encouraging carpooling/vanpooling, and offering alternatives to typical work hours. Often, the most cost- effective way to solve a problem related to transportation is to manage demand. TDM focuses on helping people change their travel behavior to meet their travel needs by using different modes, traveling at different times, making fewer or shorter trips, and/or taking different routes. Such actions can include offering commuters one or more alternative transportation modes and/or services, providing incentives to travel on these modes, providing opportunities to better link trips, and/or incorporating growth management or traffic impact policies into local development decisions. The following TDM measures were recently recommended by Corradino for a nearby local project: ● Subsidized transit passes for residents and employees; ● Subsidized bicycle purchases for employees; ● Subsidized scooter fuel and designated scooter parking spaces; and, ● Providing a bicycle rack with 16 short-term, on-site bicycle parking spaces The site plan needs to appropriately integrate these items into the project. The location of the bicycle rack and scooter parking spaces need to maintain the most-efficient vehicular circulation and the safety for all users to the site. ► Meeting Attendance at Planning Board Hearings The Corradino Team is structured to ensure there will always be coverage at public meetings/hearings associated with each development/redevelopment project application. The quasi-judicial hearing has specific criteria and is a formal proceeding that puts evidence in the record about the application. The Corradino Team will attend these public hearings, and other associated meetings, to respond to questions regarding the application, including the summary of all traffic study review comments The Corradino Team will create a detailed record of the peer review which comes in the form of a technical memorandum with comments issued by the City's traffic review consultant and responses from the applicant's traffic consultant. The history of the comment review period will be documented in the technical memorandum and is usually included in the staff report for the related development/redevelopment application. The schedule is paramount, and The Corradino Team is committed to meeting all deliverable deadlines. ► Valet Parking Operation - Mechanical/Automated Parking Systems The use of mechanical lifts, and other automated parking systems, are prevalent in South Florida. The Corradino Team is very familiar with these systems and has reviewed them as part of valet operations on development/redevelopment projects. Review of valet operations includes the time it takes to load and unload stacked vehicles in on-site parking facilities. The queuing analysis includes the following items to determine the number of valet parking attendants required during the peak period of a regular weekday, so the queue does not extend past the entrance (95% confidence level analysis): ● Peak site-generated traffic into the pickup and drop off valet location; ● The average service rate which corresponds to the time it will take a valet parking attendant to park or retrieve a vehicle; ● The coefficient of utilization, which is the ratio of the average arrival rate of vehicles to the average service rate;