(a) The County Council by resolution may create a transportation management district (TMD) in Red, Orange, or Yellow Policy Areas as defined in the Growth and Infrastructure Policy. A district may be formed from all, or portions of, one or more Policy areas, even if they are not contiguous.
(b) The Department may take actions necessary to achieve effective transportation demand management in each District, on its own or by contract with any employer, transportation management organization, or other party, including:
(1) controlling the use of or limiting public parking, by regulation adopted under method (2);
(2) prohibiting bundling of parking in new developments;
(3) monitoring and assessing traffic patterns and pedestrian access and safety;
(4) adopting traffic and parking control measures;
(5) providing transit, shuttles, circulator services, or other transportation services;
(6) implementing approved transportation-related capital projects;
(7) promoting, implementing, and improving existing transit and ridesharing incentives;
(8) promoting regional cooperation between the County and other government agencies;
(9) creating cooperative County-private sector programs to increase ridesharing and transit use; and
(10) conducting surveys, studies, and statistical analyses to determine the effectiveness of and improvements needed to advance transportation demand management plans and employer and building owner efforts.
(c) In each District, sole source contracts may be signed with, or funds granted to, one or more transportation management organizations to carry out transportation demand management programs that the Department could otherwise carry out, under Chapter 11B.
(d) The Department and the Planning Board may, in accordance with this Article and other applicable law, jointly or separately impose transportation demand management measures as conditions on the Board’s approval of development in any District.
(e) Each District may have a Transportation Management District Advisory Committee if the Executive by regulation decides a Committee is necessary to carry out this Article or if the Council creates a Committee by resolution. The Executive or Council may designate any existing advisory body appointed by the Executive and confirmed by the Council to serve as a Transportation Management District Advisory Committee. The Executive must appoint and the Council must confirm members of any Advisory Committee. The County must not compensate members of an Advisory Committee for their services. Advisory Committee members, not otherwise public employees as defined in Chapter 19A, are not subject to the financial disclosure provisions of that Chapter. (1993 L.M.C., ch. 47, § 1; 2002 L.M.C., ch. 34, § 1; 2004 L.M.C., ch. 2, § 2; 2006 L.M.C., ch. 1, § 1; 2019 L.M.C., ch. 28, § 1; 2021 L.M.C., ch. 3, §1.)