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AGENDA STATEMENT
City Council Meeting Date: March 8, 1993
SUBJECT:
Option to Accept or Reject the Delegation of the
Implementation of the Bay Area Air Quality Management
District's (BAAQMD's) Trip Reduction Ordinance (TRO)
Report by: Public Works Director Lee Thompson
EXHIBITS ATTACHED:
None
RECOMMENDAT I ON:
FINANCIAL STATEMENT:
To not accept BAAQMD's TRO delegation of authority and
authorize the Mayor to notify BAAQMD by letter of the
Council's action.
City would receive approximately $14,000 per year toward
implementation if the City accepts delegation. City would
pay any shortfall of the total cost. If the City elects to
not accept delegation, the BAAQMD would pay all of the cost.
DESCRIPTION: The passage of Proposition 111 by california voters in 1990
resulted in sweeping changes in transportation planning and established a State-
mandated Congestion Management Program (CMP). Alameda County and the cities within
Alameda County subsequently formed the Alameda County Congestion Management Agency
(CMA) and adopted a CMP in October 1991. One of the key components of the CMP is
implementation of trip reduction and travel demand strategies, which includes the
adoption of a Trip Reduction ordinance (TRO) by each Jurisdiction within Alameda
County. The City of Dublin adopted its TRO in July 1992 and has just begun
implementation in January of this year. The Bay Area Air Quality Management
District (BAAQMD) has also recently adopted a TRO more restrictive than Dublin's
TRO. Dublin now has the option of adopting the BAAQMD's ordinance and receiving
$14,000 for implementation, or terminating Dublin's ordinance as of July 1, 1994,
and allowing BAAQMD to administer their own ordinance.
The City of Dublin's ordinance is based on requiring that employers with over 100
employees make a good faith effort to educate and encourage their employees to use
mass transit, car pooling, or other alternates to using a single-occupant motor
vehicle to get to work. The BAAQMD's ordinance sets up certain trip reduction
goals, and if these goals are not met, the employers are required to take further
steps to meet the goals, such as financial incentives and pay parking.
Dublin was allotted $10,000 from AB 434 monies (vehicle registration fees) in 1992-
93 and will receive about $14,000 in future years if Dublin continues to administer
the existing ordinance through October of 1993 and then upgrades to BAAQMD's
ordinance and administers this more restrictive ordinance thereafter.
The alternative is to allow BAAQMD to take over the program as of July 1, 1994.
Dublin would then administer its own existing ordinance until July 1, 1994 and then
terminate the Dublin ordinance. Dublin would still receive the $10,000 in 1992-93
and $14,000 in 1993-94 for the program and thereafter could use the $14,000 per year
only on projects which would improve air quality.
The benefit for keeping the administration of the TRO program would be to keep local
control of the way in which the program is administered with Dublin's businesses.
The benefits of not accepting delegation of the program from the BAAQMD are that:
1) Dublin would not have to pick up any costs over and above the $14,000
per year after 1993-94. In 1992-93, $33,863 was budgeted for this
purpose. It should be noted that within two years, these requirements
will apply to employers of 50 or more employees.
ITEM NO.
COPIES TO:
Dublin would still be allowed the $14,000 per year to be spent on other
projects which would better the air quality. (Note that most of these
projects are mass transit oriented).
Being the enforcing entity for these regulations could alienate those
businesses that are required to comply.
Given the above reasons, Staff recommends not accepting delegation from BAAQMD and
to continue implementing Dublin's TRO until July 1994, using AB434 funding for this
project until that date. After July 1994, the City would no longer need to
implement any TRO as implementation will be taken over by BAAQMD's staff.
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