A. Access facilities are the physical interface between a development and the abutting County Highway. The economic success and vitality of the development and the safety of the motoring public are both linked to efficient traffic operations at the access intersections serving the development.
B. In order to maintain safe and efficient traffic operations at the access intersection and to ensure that the impact of development accessing a County Highway does not result in a degradation of traffic operations, improvements to the County Highway System may be required.
COMMENTARY: Increases in traffic from development result in two (2) types of impacts to the County Highway System:
• Impacts that occur at the access point(s) and adjacent intersections that result In an increase in delays at those specific locations and are directly attributable to a specific development.
• Cumulative impacts to the overall roadway network that result from the incremental increases in traffic from developments.
In order to prevent a degradation in traffic operations at access locations, and adjacent intersections, improvements to the County Highway at the access location and adjacent intersections maybe required.
C. To mitigate the cumulative impact of increased traffic from new developments to the overall roadway network, additional right-of-way shall be dedicated to facilitate the County in making future area-wide improvements to the County Highway system as a result of overall traffic growth generated at both the development access point(s) and the incremental increase in overall traffic.
(Ord. O-200811-82-068, passed 11-6-2008)