Title: Transportation Demand Management

Municipality: Silver Spring

State: MD 

Reference: Sec. 1. Chapter 42A Article II. Transportation Demand Management.

Web Site: http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/Content/Council/2002bills/32-02e.pdf

Population:  

Coverage: Silver Spring central business district

Impetus: 

Start Date: 2003

End Date: 

Goal: Transportation system management is established in the district to foster coordinated and comprehensive transportation system management by government, new developers, property owners and employers in order to:  (1) Increase transportation capacity; (2) Reduce existing and future levels of traffic congestion; (3) Reduce air and noise pollution; and 74 (4) Promote traffic safety and pedestrian access. 75

Hours: 

Target: Commuting goals set in the Annual Growth Policy

Results: 

Scope: An employer who employs twenty- five (25) or more employees in the district at any time within one (1) year preceding the date of notice under subsection (a) must submit a traffic mitigation plan to the director. The number of employees working on the largest shift determines the number of employees at a work site.

Requirements: The traffic mitigation plan should be consistent with the commuting goals specified in the annual growth policy. A traffic mitigation plan may include use of an alternate work hours program, carpools, vanpools, subsidized transit passes, preferential parking, and peak period parking charges or other transportation system management measures. Must participate in county's Commuter Survey.

Managing entity: Director of the Department of Public Works and Transportation

Monitor: Every year submit a new TMP and a report documenting the effectiveness of the previous TMP 

Enforce:  The Department must enforce this Article. An employer that does not submit a traffic mitigation plan or provide survey data within 30 days after a second notice has committed a class C violation. An owner who does not submit a traffic mitigation plan within 30 days after a second notice has committed a class C violation.  A party to a traffic mitigation agreement BILL NO. 32-02 under Section 42A-26 who does not comply with the agreement within 30 days after notice has committed a class A violation.

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