Any person, firm, corporation, owner or lessee of any lot or land, constructing or causing to construct access to any public roadway in the City, except from residential subdivisions totaling less than five (5) acres, shall first present to the City the results of a trip generation study and a traffic impact study performed by an engineer qualified and pre-approved by the City Engineer. The trip generation and the traffic impact study shall describe the maximum anticipated traffic volumes by location and direction to be generated and which will impact the road system during a peak design hour in the year of construction plus twenty (20) years. The report shall also provide the means to compensate for any degradation of the traffic services existing on the City roadway system, to the City Engineer's satisfaction prior to the granting of a permit for construction. Improvements to the City roadway system shall be constructed as part of the development and its permit and the developer shall provide inspection fees, a testing deposit and as surety representing 100% of the cost of improvements.
(Ord. 08-0-35. Passed 5-6-08.)