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TransportationCommission | 2006-12-13 | 2 | tape]] service deployment policies. He understood that those meetings would commence in January 2007. 5. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS There were none. 6A. RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE MULTIMODAL CIRCULATION SUBCOMMITTEE ON RECONCILING TMP POLICIES WITH THE 7 NEW POLICIES. Staff Khan presented the staff report. He noted that on October 17, 2006, City Council approved the initiation of the process for a General Plan Amendment to incorporate the Transportation Master Plan policies and the seven additional policies recommended by the Transportation Commission. Following the meeting, the Transportation Commission met in October, and the Commissioners asked the Multimodal Circulation Subcommittee to examine the TMP policies to determine whether any conflicts existed. If conflicts did exist, they were requested to address and reconcile the policies. The Subcommittee met after that meeting and developed recommendations, including minor changes to the TMP policies, as well as a substantial change to Policy 7 of the EIR policies. He detailed the changes in the policies as described in the staff report. The staff recommendations were intended to ensure that if Policy 7 were to be implemented, and if a certain level of congestion were to be accepted in certain locations in the City, some thresholds would be established that would take into account the impacts that may be generated from the increase in congestion. Staff Khan described the current CEQA process in detail. Staff recommended that Policy 7 be strengthened so that if the TSM or TDM measures were implemented, they would be verifiable on an annual basis. If they were not being met, additional measures would be implemented. Staff requested that the Commission examine the changes recommended by the Subcommittee and by staff, and to approve the changes with the changed policies as recommended by staff. Public Comment There were no speakers. Closed Public Comment Commissioner Krueger noted that he was trying to reconcile how staff's wording related to the goal of strengthening the TDM language. He noted that the second set of language seemed to put conditions on when unmitigated congestion could be accepted with TDM. He believed that weakened the intent of Policy 7 as he understood it. Staff Khan noted that Policy 5 addressed the issue of pedestrian and bicyclist impacts, which they tried to tie to Policy 7, and which strengthened Policy 7 in establishing thresholds. A discussion of the impacts and thresholds ensued. 2 | TransportationCommission/2006-12-13.pdf |