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TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE REPORT relative to modifying traffic signal
timing citywide to operate with dwell recall, Transit Signal Priority, or
preemption along at-grade rail lines, Bus Rapid Transit lines, and full-time and
part-time transit lanes, and related matters.
Recommendation for Council action, pursuant to Motion (Raman, et al. –
Harris-Dawson):
INSTRUCT the Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) to:
a. Report to Council, in collaboration with the Los Angeles County
Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro), within 60 days, with
guidelines establishing dwell recall for signals along at-grade rail lines
and Bus Rapid Transit lines.
b. Report to Council, within 120 days, with a draft policy and implementation
plan and timeline to modify signal timing citywide to operate traffic signals
with dwell recall, Transit Signal Priority, or preemption along at-grade rail
lines, Bus Rapid Transit lines, full-time transit lanes, and part-time transit
lanes, with the goal of reducing signal delay to transit vehicles and
reducing transit end-to-end travel times to the greatest extent possible.
The timeline should identify changes that can be made without new
equipment (such as implementing dwell recall) to be implemented as
soon as possible, followed by changes requiring equipment and larger
capital costs, such as improvements to Transit Signal Priority and
preemption. The report should also include a draft policy and
implementation plan to provide automatic pedestrian and cyclist phasing
for adjacent crosswalks, bike lanes, and bike paths that run parallel to the
direction of trains or buses in a separate lane or guideway.
c. Report to Council, within 180 days, with a “Transit First Policy” that
incorporates the above guidelines and policies and guides all future
design or modification of traffic signals citywide, with the adopted goal of
reducing signal delay to transit vehicles and reducing transit end-to-end
travel times as much as possible above all other considerations,
excepting safety. The Transit First Policy would also guide the LADOT to
work with Metro to upgrade to the type of signal prioritization or
preemption that best meets the travel time goals of the policy. The policy
should include a provision that deviations from these goals must be
justified based on specific findings, on a case-by-case basis.
d. Study how the impacts of the above policies proposed in this Motion
(Raman, et al. – Harris-Dawson) affect speeds and timetables for transit
services, and report this information to Council within one year of
adoption of the policies proposed in said Motion, attached to the Council
file.
Fiscal Impact Statement: Neither the City Administrative Officer nor the Chief
Legislative Analyst has completed a financial analysis of this report. |
April 29, 2025
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15-0719-S19
EXEMPTION, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT (EIR), ADDENDA and
RELATED CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT (CEQA)
FINDINGS; TRANSPORTATION, PLANNING AND LAND USE
MANAGEMENT, and BUDGET AND FINANCE COMMITTEES’ REPORTS
relative to a proposed Ordinance amending Los Angeles Municipal Code
(LAMC) Section 12.26 J to update the City's Transportation Demand
Management (TDM) Ordinance, proposed New Development Review Fee
Ordinance, and Mobility Investment Trust Fund Ordinance, and related actions
to repeal existing Ordinances to align with the City’s climate action goals.
A. TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE REPORT
Recommendations for Council action, SUBJECT TO THE APPROVAL OF
THE MAYOR:
1. RECEIVE and FILE the Los Angeles Department of Transportation
(LADOT) report, dated June 5, 2019, attached to the Council file,
relative to the status of proposed updates to the City's TMD
Ordinance requirements for new developments.
2. FIND that:
a. Based on the independent judgment of the decision-maker,
after consideration of the whole of the administrative record,
the project was assessed in the previously certified EIR, No.
ENV-2013-0911-EIR, SCH No. 2013041012, certified on
November 25, 2015 (Council file No. 15-0719); Addendum
No. ENV-2013-0911-EIR-ADD1, dated December 3, 2015
(Council File No. 15-0719-S15); Addendum No. ENV-2013-
0911-EIR-ADD2, dated March 2016 (Council File No. 15-
0719); and pursuant to CEQA Guidelines, Sections 15162
and 15164, and the Addendum No. ENV-2013-0911-EIR-
ADD3, dated September 9, 2022, that no major revisions to
the EIR are required and no subsequent EIR or negative
declaration is required for approval of the Project.
b. The Fee Ordinance and Trust Fund Ordinance do not
constitute a "project," as defined by CEQA pursuant to CEQA
Guidelines Section 15378(b)(4), which states that a "project"
does not include "[t]he creation of government funding
mechanisms or other government fiscal activities which does
not involve any commitment to any specific project which may
result in a potentially significant physical impact on the
environment."
c. The adoption of the Fee Ordinance and Trust Fund Ordinance
are exempt from CEQA based upon CEQA Guidelines
Section 15061 (b)(3), since it can be seen with certainty that
there is no possibility that the activity in question may have a
significant effect on the environment, and as such the activity
is not subject to CEQA.
3. CONCUR with the action of the Los Angeles City Planning
Commission (LACPC) recommending approval of the proposed
TMD Ordinance, approved at its meeting of September 22,
2022, attached to the Department of City Planning (DCP) report for
Case No. CPC-2021-3141-CA, dated October 24, 2022, attached to
the Council file.
4. ADOPT the:
a. Findings of the LACPC as the Findings of Council, attached to
the DCP report for Case No. CPC-2021-3141-CA, dated
October 24, 2022, attached to the Council file.
b. Proposed TMD Ordinance amending LAMC Section 12.26 J,
Transportation Demand Management and Trip Reduction
Measures, attached to the DCP report for Case No. CPC-
2021-3141-CA, dated October 24, 2022, attached to the
Council file.
5. REQUEST the City Attorney, in coordination with the DCP, to:
a. Prepare and present the following:
i. An Ordinance amending LAMC Section 19.15 (Fee
Ordinance) (Attachment B - currently titled: Department
of Transportation Traffic Study Review, Condition
Clearance and Permit Issuance Fees), to incorporate
the new and revised fees detailed in the October 26,
2022 LADOT report, attached to the Council file.
ii. An Ordinance to:
1. Add Article 33 to Chapter 5 of Division 5 of the Los
Angeles Administrative Code (LAAC) to establish
a new special fund that combines multiple trust
funds to be known as the “Mobility Investment
Trust Fund,” as detailed in Attachment C of the
October 26, 2022 LADOT report, attached to the
Council file, and include revisions to the hotel
thresholds as follows:
50 rooms for Level 2
135 rooms for Level 3
2. Repeal LAAC Article 13.9 of Chapter 5 of Division
5 Neighborhood Traffic Management Trust Fund
and LAAC Article 26 of Chapter 5 of Division 5
Bicycle Plan Trust Fund, as detailed in
Attachments D and E, respectively, of the October
26, 2022 LADOT report, attached to the Council
file.
b. Incorporate the new TDM Ordinance, once it is adopted by
City Council, into the New Zoning Code, subject to changes to
conform to the format, style, and nomenclature of the New
Zoning Code.
B. PLANNING AND LAND USE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE REPORT
Recommendations for Council action:
1. CONCUR with the Transportation Committee Recommendation
Nos. 2a, 2b, 2c, 3, 4a, 4b, and 5ai, as detailed in the Transportation
Committee report.
2. CONCUR with the DCP recommendations contained in the report
dated October 21, 2022, and the LADOT recommendations
contained in the report dated October 26, 2022, relative to the
proposed TDM Ordinance, Trip Reduction Measures, findings, and
Environmental findings, as denoted in the Mobility Plan EIR
certified on November 25, 2015; and three Addendums.
3. APPROVE the LACPC recommendations in report CPC-2021-
3141-CA that includes Exhibit A, (proposed TDM Ordinance),
approved at the LACPC meeting on September 22, 2022
(Attachment A), attached to the LADOT report dated October 26,
2022.
4. REQUEST the City Attorney to:
a. Prepare and present an ordinance to add Article 33 to
Chapter 5 of Division 5 of the LAAC to establish a new special
fund that combines multiple trust funds to be known as the
“Mobility Investment Trust Fund” (Fund) (Attachment C), and
repeal LAAC Article 13.9 of Chapter 5 of Division 5
Neighborhood Traffic Management Trust Fund (Attachment D)
and LAAC Article 26 of Chapter 5 of Division 5 Bicycle Plan
Trust Fund (Attachment E), attached to the LADOT report
dated October 26, 2022.
b. Prepare and present a new TDM Ordinance, and thereby
repeal the existing ordinance adopted in 1993 (Ordinance No.
168700), as recommended in the DCP report dated October
21, 2022; and, in the LADOT report dated October 26, 2022,
attached to the Council file.
5. REFER to the Budget and Finance Committee and INSTRUCT the
City Administrative Officer (CAO) to prepare a report with
recommendations relative to the proposed New Development
Review Fee Ordinance and ‘Mobility Investment Trust Fund’ as
recommended in the LADOT report dated October 26, 2022,
attached to the Council file; and further, INSTRUCT the CAO to
indicate in the report if the recommended fee Ordinance is fully cost
recoverable and not expected to negatively impact the General
Fund.
6. REQUEST the City Attorney, upon completion of the CAO fee
analysis report, to prepare and present the following ordinances:
a. The new Development Review Fee Ordinance
b. A second Ordinance to create a new Special Fund that
combines multiple trust funds, to be known as the ‘Mobility
Investment Trust Fund’ and thereby repeal the existing
“Neighborhood Traffic Management Trust Fund” and the
“Bicycle Plan Trust Fund.”
7. REQUEST the City Attorney, in coordination with the DCP and
LADOT, to include in the Transportation Demand Management
Ordinance, the following:
a. Revise of hotel thresholds to:
i. 25 rooms for Level 1 (currently proposed)
ii. 50 rooms for Level 2 (on par with housing)
iii. 135 rooms for Level 3
8. INSTRUCT the DCP to incorporate the ordinance once adopted by
the Council, into the LAMC, Chapter 1A (proposed new Zoning
Code), and thereby conform to its new format/style.
C. BUDGET AND FINANCE COMMITTEE REPORT
1. CONCUR with the Transportation Committee’s recommendation to
receive and file the LADOT report dated June 5, 2019, attached to
the Council file.
2. CONCUR with the Transportation and Planning and Land Use
Management Committees’ recommendations approved on
November 1, 2022 related to the DCP Report dated October 24,
2022 and LADOT Report dated October 26, 2022, attached to the
Council file.
3. NOTE and FILE the CAO report dated November 16, 2022,
attached to the Council file.
Fiscal Impact Statement:
None submitted by the DCP. The LADOT reports that the TDM program update
includes a cost recovery fee ordinance, and is not expected to impact the
General Fund. The City Administrative Officer (CAO) reports that approval of
the recommendation in this report will have no impact on the General Fund.
With the approval of the new proposed Development Review Fees in the
LADOT report dated October 26, 2022, attached to this Council file, LADOT
estimates a total of $2.17 million in annual revenue of which $1.74 million will
be received as revenue by the General Fund and $430,000 will be received as
revenue by the Transportation Review Fee Fund, a fee-supported Special
Fund. The proposed fees provide full cost recovery.
Financial Policies Statement:
The CAO reports that the recommendation in the report complies with the City
Financial Policies in that it recommends to note and file this report. |
April 22, 2025
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