This bill revises existing incentives that guide the location of high-traffic developments generating more than 100 cars per hour and relaxes the standard for projects in growth areas that reuse currently developed land and buildings with no more than a 10% increase in building footprint by limiting traffic mitigation requirements to improvements to entrances and exits of a project. Current law provides this incentive only for conversion of existing buildings.

This bill limits the relaxed standard of traffic mitigation requirements to certain growth areas.

Development incentives are not provided if a development has an entrance or an exit on a high-speed arterial highway. This bill provides development incentives only if a project provides prudent traffic demand management strategies, such as provision of appropriate on-site bus stops or train platforms. The department may not require operational support of passenger transportation systems or parking management strategies.

This bill requires that the largest developments that generate 400 or more passenger car equivalents at peak hour provide right-of-way access to adjacent parcels, where sensible, if these developments are located on arterial highways.

This bill also provides enforcement mechanisms for applicants for a building occupancy permit to prove that their entrances and exists are legally permitted.