Ordinance No. 1027134
ORDINANCE NO. 1027
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS, CALIFORNIA,
AMENDING CHAPTER 16, ARTICLE XVII, OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS
RELATING TO CYPRESS TRANSPORTATION DEMAND MANAGEMENT
REQUIREMENTS FOR SPECIFIED NEW DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS.
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Cypress recognizes the significance of
establishing county -wide congestion management programs that are intended to address
traffic congestion and protect air quality; and
WHEREAS, to comply with regulations established by AB 1791, Proposition 111,
and Measure M, the City Council of the City of Cypress adopted Transportation Demand
Management (TDM) Requirements for Specified New Development Projects in April 1991;
and
WHEREAS, the Transportation Demand Management Ordinance adopted in April
1991 established an employee threshold of 100 employees, in conformance with the
South Coast Air Quality Management District's Regulation XV, that determined when the
requirements would be applicable; and
WHEREAS, Rule 2202 was recently adopted by the South Coast Air Quality
Management District, which superceded Regulation XV, raising the employee threshold to
250 employees; and
WHEREAS, the County of Orange Growth Management Program requires that the
City of Cypress's current TDM ordinance be amended to reflect the new threshold and
other language modifications to remain eligible for future Measure M Turnback funds.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS DOES
FIND, DETERMINE AND RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
Section 16 -100 (d): Findings and Determinations, of the Cypress Municipal Code is
hereby amended as follows:
Other transportation demand management (TDM) program requirements have been
adopted for the region including Regulation XV Rule 2202 and Appendix IV G Appendix
IV -B Transportation Control Measures of the air quality management
plan (AQMP).
Section 16 -102 (a): Goals and Objectives, of the Cypress Municipal Code is
hereby amended as follows:
The goal of the transportation demand management program is to minimize the potential
impact of new commercial, industrial, and mixed -use development including employment
centers of ono hundred (100} two hundred fifty (250) persons upon existing
transportation and parking facilities, resulting in increased motor vehicle emissions,
deteriorating levels of service, and possibly significant additional capital expenditures to
augment and improve the existing transportation system.
Section 16 -103: Definitions, of the Cypress Municipal Code is hereby amended as
follows:
Employee shall mean any person employed by a firm, person(s), business, educational
institution, nonprofit agency or corporation, government agency or other entity which
employs mad- (100) two hundred fifty (250) or more persons at a single worksite.
Employer means any person(s) firm, business, educational institution, government
agency, non profit agency or corporation, or other entity which employs ene- hun00)
two hundred fifty (250) or more persons at a single worksite
- - - - - - - - - - -, and may either be a property
owner or tenant of an applicable development project.
Peak Period means those hours of the business day between 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m.,
Monday through Friday.
Worksite shall mean a building or group of buildings which are
in actual physical contact or separated solely by a private or
public roadway or other private or public right -of -way, and which are owned or
operated by the same employer (or employers under common control).
Section 16 -104 (a): Objectives, of the Cypress Municipal Code is hereby amended
as follows:
All new development projects, commercial, industrial, institutional, or other uses which are
determined to employ 1-00} two hundred fifty (250) or more persons
including any permit for expanding or changing the use of existing facilities that already
have I00} two hundred fifty (250) or more employees or will have one
hundred (100) two hundred fifty (250) or more employees as determined by the
employee generation factors specified under this section shall be subject to this section.
Section 104 (b)(2): Objectives, of the Cypress Municipal Code is hereby amended
as follows:
Building sizes shall be considered equivalent to the -ed(1 -00} two hundred fifty
(250) employee threshold as follows:
Section 16 -105 (2)(b): Facility Standards, of the Cypress Municipal Code is hereby
amended as follows:
Shower and locker room facility for employees of each sex shall be provided in each
building housing one hundred { 00) two hundred fifty (250) or more employees.
FIRST READ at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Cypress held on
the 24th day of June, 2002, and finally adopted and ordered posted at a regular meeting
held on the 8th day of July, 2002.
ATTEST:
MAYOR 'i HE CITY OF CYPRESS
ITY OF CYPRESS
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS
I, JILL R. INGRAM - GUERTIN, City
CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was
City Council of the City of Cypress held on
call vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
Clerk of the City of Cypress, DO HEREBY
duly adopted at a regular meeting of the said
the 8th day of July, 2002, by the following roll
4 COUNCIL MEMBERS: Keenan, Piercy, McCoy and Sondhi
0 COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
1 COUNCIL MEMBERS: McGill
Y CLERK OF TH 4 ITY OF CYPRESS
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