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A. A concurrency application and concurrency evaluation shall be provided by the applicant for each proposed development permit application.

1. The concurrency evaluation shall be conducted for the specific property, uses, densities and intensities based on information provided in the concurrency application.

2. Changes to the proposed uses, densities, and intensities that create additional impacts on transportation facilities shall be subject to an additional concurrency evaluation.

3. The concurrency evaluation will be conducted as part of the required traffic study as set forth in the city’s development guidelines and improvement standards manual.

4. In conducting the concurrency evaluation, the calculated level of service (LOS) standard for vehicle trip generation will be compared to the adopted LOS standard for each impacted arterial street.

5. Arterial street LOS measurements will be combined with the following other variables to calculate multimodal person trips (see Table 13.70.020):

a. Degree of pedestrian network completeness;

b. Degree of bicycle network completeness; and

c. Seated capacity and frequency of public transit bus routes.

B. The public works department will review the concurrency evaluation and comments will be provided per the city’s development guidelines and improvement standards manual.

C. The public works department will maintain a listing of all pending concurrency applications, concurrency approvals, and temporary and final certificates of concurrency.

1. The projected person trips generated by each proposed development project that has received a temporary certificate of concurrency shall be accounted for as part of subsequent concurrency evaluations.

D. In order to monitor the cumulative effect of exempt development approvals (as defined in BMC 13.70.090) on the level of service (LOS) for arterials, as well as completeness of pedestrian and bicycle networks and the seated capacity and frequency of public transit routes, the concurrency evaluation will include the impacts of exempt development approvals in all relevant concurrency monitoring reports. This will be measured through annual city traffic counts on arterial streets, ridership statistics provided by Whatcom transportation authority, and city measurements of completeness for pedestrian and bicycle networks.

E. The requirements of this section shall be applied at the time of approval of an initial development phase and may be adjusted for any subsequent development phase based on the cumulative impact of all the phases. All exempt development permit applications which have been submitted by the same developer on the same or contiguous parcels of land within the one-year period immediately prior to a current concurrency application shall be included in the application and concurrency evaluation. [Ord. 2008-12-113; Ord. 2006-04-041].