4.7.400 Transportation Facilities Report

4.7.400 Transportation Facilities Report.

A. Preparation. The Transportation Facilities Report must be prepared by a licensed professional engineer especially qualified in civil or traffic engineering by the State of Oregon. It is the responsibility of the engineer to provide enough detailed information for the City Engineer to determine if a Transportation Impact Analysis is required.

B. Contents of the Transportation Facilities Report. The Transportation Facilities Report must contain the following information organized as follows:

1. Description of the Proposed Development. Provide a description of the proposed development sufficient to understand the proposed development’s size, uses, operations, and interaction with the transportation system. At a minimum, the description must include both qualitative and quantitative descriptions, such as scale of the proposed development, day-to-day operations, deliveries, staffing, customer base (visitors, patients, employees, students, etc.), peak hours of operation, and identification of site access and on-site circulation needs.

2. Trip Generation. Provide a trip generation description for the proposal with the following applicable information:

a. Trip Credits and Vested Trips. If trip credits are being used from the existing on-site development or from a separate development approval, the trip generation description must provide supporting documentation of those trip credits, and documentation of the authority to use those trip credits for the proposed development.

i. Clear and Objective Track. Average trip generation rates from the latest edition of the publication Trip Generation by the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE).

ii. Discretionary Track. The City Engineer will determine which of the following to use for the base trip generation rates:

(A) Average trip generation rates from the latest edition of the publication Trip Generation by the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE);

(B) Local data. The procedure for identifying local trip generation rates must comply with the guidelines for “Conducting a Trip Generation Study” in the ITE Trip Generation document; or

c. Bend Comprehensive Plan Amendments. For Bend Comprehensive Plan amendment applications, the trip generation must represent a reasonable build-out scenario supported through citation of nearby existing site trip generation rates and densities in order to ensure reasonable trip generation comparisons. If the Bend Comprehensive Plan amendment is accompanied by a concurrent Site Plan Review application, the trip generation for the site plan review application may be used instead. The amendment must comply with the Transportation Planning Rule, OAR 660-012-0060.

i. Clear and Objective Track. Adjustments for pass-by trips will be allowed as provided in the ITE Trip Generation publication. Pass-by trips must always be accounted for in the site access analyses and sufficiently documented. Pass-by trip maps must be created for each pass-by route separately rather than a single combined map.

ii. Discretionary Track. Adjustments for pass-by trips may be applied depending on the adjacent transportation facility and City Engineer approval. The published average pass-by rate will typically be allowed for those land use categories that are provided in the ITE Trip Generation publication. Pass-by trips must always be accounted for in the site access analyses and sufficiently documented. Pass-by trip maps must be created for each pass-by route separately rather than a single combined map. The City Engineer may approve another method to review adjustments for pass-by trips.

e. Site Internalization/Trip Sharing. Applications processed as a Discretionary Track may demonstrate how the site reduces vehicle trips through site design, including parking supply, land use mixes, and densities that promote reduced rates based upon those elements. City review of the proposal based on guidance from the state’s Transportation Planning Rule may result in trip generation reductions.

3. Transportation and Parking Demand Management (TPDM) Plan. In compliance with BDC Chapter 4.5, Master Plans, institutional and employment master plans must develop a TPDM plan. All other proposed development applications may choose to develop a TPDM plan. The proposed measures of the TPDM plan will be evaluated to determine trip generation reduction rates. See BDC Chapter 4.8, Transportation and Parking Demand Management (TPDM) Plan.

4. Major Intersections. From each access point (driveway or street) of the proposed development onto and along the transportation system for a distance of one mile, show the major intersections on a map.

5. Trip Distribution. Provide a trip distribution description and map that contains the following information:

a. Trip distribution assignments within the study area that replicate overall origin/destination patterns, including the major intersections identified in subsection (B)(4) of this section. Existing field count turning movement patterns are to be used as a guide for trip assignments. The assignment will be adjusted to reflect future funded transportation facilities, improvements or services that are authorized in the Transportation System Plan and for which funding is in the City’s approved Capital Improvements Program (CIP), the Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) or other approved funding plan. See BDC 4.7.500(B)(1) for the study area.

b. Description of truck delivery routes, including over-dimensional loads if applicable, of travel to and from the site for a distance of one mile. The distance will be extended to identify freight routes for freight-intensive sites or those that generate over-dimensional loads.

6. Transportation Facilities Evaluation. The report must evaluate and document the following for compliance with this code, the Transportation System Plan and the City of Bend Standards and Specifications:

a. The existing transportation system infrastructure serving the site within the study area. The evaluation must include any future funded transportation system elements included in the City’s approved five-year Capital Improvement Program, Statewide Transportation Improvement Program or other approved funding plan. See BDC 4.7.500(B)(1) for the study area.

b. The following right-of-way information along the frontage of the proposed development:

i. Compliance with the required right-of-way width for the roadway classification.

ii. Compliance with the required street widths.

iii. Compliance with the required right-of-way or easement width for all trail and access corridors including bicycle low stress routes and crossings and other connector routes and crossings as identified in the City of Bend Standards and Specifications.

iv. Compliance with the required street frontage elements including curbs, bike facilities, park strips, sidewalks/multi-use paths, driveways and driveway aprons, as well as curb ramps. All applicable elements must be accessible per the City of Bend Standards and Specifications.

c. The following access information:

i. Legal access and recorded easements for all driveway and access systems serving the site. For all driveways and new intersections created by the proposed development, intersection sight distance measurements must be provided for all movements into and out of the proposed accesses. Field measurements should be used wherever possible, although plan measurements from civil drawings may be used, particularly for planned intersections or driveways. Measurements need to account for vertical and horizontal curvature, grades, landscaping, and right-of-way limitations. Sight distance measurements must comply with City of Bend Standards and Specifications for the posted speed of the road. At the written request of an applicant and as part of the discretionary track development review process, the City Engineer may approve an alternate sight distance standard based on existing constraints.

ii. For arterial and collector street accesses and new street connections document the location of all existing driveways and street connecting points within 300 feet of the frontage of the property. Provide a driveway conflicting movement diagram and assessment showing overlapping conflicts with nearby existing driveways and street intersections.

d. The following on-site circulation and/or street plan access information:

i. The proposed street layout that matches the Transportation System Plan and how it interfaces into abutting and nearby approved development street layouts, abutting and nearby master plans or special planned areas and requirements of this code and provides access for development of adjoining properties.

ii. Truck circulation and entry/egress assessment including routing, turning movement, and delivery needs for all truck and emergency service vehicles. Identify any proposed special truck accommodations for freight service.

iii. A demonstration that required public access, shared access, and shared parking easements are in place or will be required to be in place.

e. The following existing and planned walking, biking and transit facilities and infrastructure serving the site from each access point (driveway or street) of the proposed development onto and along the transportation system for a distance of one-quarter mile:

i. Location of all sidewalks, curb ramps, bike lanes, paths, crosswalks, pedestrian signal heads, push buttons, related signage, striping, and transit facilities along with pedestrian paths of travel between the transit facility and the site and to the buildings on the site.

ii. Barriers, deficiencies and high-pedestrian demand land uses including schools, parks, parking, senior housing facilities, and transit facilities.

f. Truck circulation and entry/egress including routing, turning movement, and delivery needs for all truck and emergency service vehicles. Identify any proposed special truck accommodations for freight service.

a. Safety must be evaluated for the study area and a Discretionary Track application may require additional locations as required by the City Engineer. The evaluation must document and review crash data from the ODOT Crash Analysis and Reporting Section (ODOT-CARS). Crash data may be requested directly from ODOT or the Bend Urban Area Metropolitan Planning Organization. Crash data must provide a five-year history of ODOT reported crashes and must be presented in tabular and crash diagram form. Crash data must include the following information:

i. Crash histories and a calculated crash rate;

ii. Crash patterns (was there an identifiable pattern to the crashes due to the design characteristics of the intersections) and crash types affecting proposed development trips; and

iii. Whether any location within the study area is included within published safety studies, such as the Oregon Department of Transportation Safety Priority Index System lists, ODOT Safety Action Plan, or the City’s Arterial and Collector Multimodal Safety Study.

a. Public and Private Schools (K-12), Colleges and Universities. Provide an analysis of walking, biking and transit facilities along and across arterial and collector roadways which accommodate safe, accessible and direct access to and from the school. Elementary schools must analyze the facilities within one mile of the school. All other schools, colleges and universities must analyze the facilities within one and one-half miles of the school.

b. All Other Uses. Provide an analysis of walking, biking and transit facilities, including street crossings, access corridors and access ways, which accommodate safe and convenient pedestrian and bicycle access from within new subdivisions, multi-unit developments, planned developments, shopping centers, and commercial districts to adjacent residential areas within one mile, to transit facilities within one-quarter of a mile, to existing or planned mobility hubs identified in the Transportation System Plan Figure 5-2 within one-quarter of a mile and to existing or planned neighborhood activity centers within one-half mile of the development. Neighborhood activity centers include, but are not limited to, parks, shopping areas, or employment centers. Proposed residential developments must also provide the analysis to elementary schools within one mile and all other schools, colleges and universities within one and one-half miles of the proposed development including development of a Safe Routes to School Plan.

c. All Uses. Identify if any street within or abutting the development site is in alignment with a bicycle low stress route identified in the Transportation System Plan Figure 5-1, Bicycle Low Stress Network, and the Connector Routes and Crossings Map identified in the City of Bend Standards and Specifications and determine how to meet the required Level of Traffic Stress 1 or 2.

9. Discretionary Track. Identify any proposed waivers in compliance with BDC 3.4.150, Waiver and Modification of Public Improvement Standards, and any deviations from the City of Bend Standards and Specifications.

1. If any of the infrastructure or facilities are missing or substandard as identified in the Transportation Facilities Report, then the applicant will be required to upgrade the infrastructure to comply with BDC Title 3, Design Standards, and with the City of Bend Standards and Specifications.

2. Based on information provided in the Transportation Facilities Report, the City Engineer will notify the applicant in writing if the report is complete, and if not, what additional evaluation information is required. If no additional information is needed, the City Engineer will notify the applicant whether a Transportation Impact Analysis is required based on the following criteria:

i. Clear and Objective Track and Discretionary Track. The current or projected increase in trip generation of the roadway system in the vicinity of the proposed development will exceed the minimum operational criteria in BDC 4.7.500(B)(6).

(A) Substandard roadway configuration and/or alignment, or capacity deficiencies that are likely to be compounded as a result of the proposed development;

(B) Proposed street design creates inadequate circulation and does not minimize cut-through traffic or accommodate orderly development of adjacent properties; and

i. Projected increase in trip generation that will impact the safety of the existing transportation system; and

ii. A traffic safety hazard is created or exacerbated on any street, roadway segment, or intersection within the study area as a direct result of the proposed development.

i. Impacts to priority walking and biking routes, school routes, transit connectivity and multimodal street improvements identified in the Transportation System Plan including bicycle low stress routes identified in the Transportation System Plan Figure 5-1, Bicycle Low Stress Network, and the Connector Routes and Crossings Map identified in the City of Bend Standards and Specifications;

ii. Bike and/or pedestrian access to site has gaps and/or the bike lane or sidewalk is dropped, missing, or otherwise unusable; and

iii. Identified transit facilities and/or their pedestrian paths of travel between the transit facility and the site and to the buildings on site are not complete.

3. In all instances, a Transportation Impact Analysis must be submitted for any proposed development that:

a. Considers modification, installation, or removal of any traffic control device;

b. Forecasts net increase in site traffic volumes greater than 700 average daily vehicle trips or off-site major intersections within one mile are impacted by 50 or more peak-hour vehicle trips; or

c. Contains a safety issue including one or more fatalities or severe injury crashes, one or more reported crashes per 1,000,000 entering vehicles, or if any location within the study area is included within published safety studies, such as the Oregon Department of Transportation Safety Priority Index System lists, ODOT Safety Action Plan, or Bend Transportation Safety Action Plan.

4. No off-site improvements will be required as a condition of approval when a Traffic Impact Analysis is not required for the Clear and Objective Track. [Ord. NS-2463, 2023; Ord. NS-2434, 2022; Ord. NS-2423, 2021; Ord. NS-2362, 2020; Ord. NS-2289, 2017; Ord. NS-2271, 2016; Ord. NS-2263, 2016]