Buckhead/Lenox Stations Special Public Interest District

PART III CODE OF ORDINANCES--LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE

Part 16 ZONING*

CHAPTER 18L. SPI-12 BUCKHEAD/LENOX STATIONS SPECIAL PUBLIC INTEREST DISTRICT

Sec. 16-18L.011. Transportation management plans required; off-street parking requirements and limitations.
 

The owner or owners or the authorized agent of the owner or owners of each office building or group of office buildings located within the boundaries of the Buckhead/Lenox Special Public Interest District in which total gross leasable floor area of office space exceeds 100,000 square feet shall prepare and file with the director of the bureau of planning a transportation management plan (TMP). Any request for a special administrative permit for new construction in which total gross leasable floor area of office space exceeds 100,000 square feet shall contain said TMP as a part of the application. For all existing office developments, said TMP shall be filed with the director of the bureau of planning no later than 180 days from the effective date of this chapter. Said TMP shall be filed in the manner otherwise provided for special administrative permits in chapter 25 of this part and is subject to review and decision by the director of the bureau of planning. Appropriate forms for the filing of transportation management plans shall be promulgated by the director of the bureau of planning.

Each such TMP shall be designed so that in the horizon year, five years from the date of original approval of said TMP, 25 percent of peak-hour work trips to each such building or group of buildings shall be made by alternative transportation means other than single-occupancy vehicles. Each applicant shall thereafter on a five-year basis submit a new TMP and a report documenting the effectiveness of the previous TMP.

Peak-hour work trips are the total number of persons arriving at the subject site between 7: 00 a.m. and 9: 00 a.m. on the average work day. Said alternative transportation means included in each such required TMP shall include both alternatives to driving alone and techniques that encourage the use of these alternatives. Each such plan shall be comprised of improved use of public transit in combination with any of the following elements, as follows:

(1) Commute alternatives:

(a) Public transit;
(b) Carpooling and vanpooling;
(c) Commuter bicycling and walking programs;
(d) Alternative work hours:

1. Staggered work hours;
2. Compressed work weeks;
3. Flexible work hours (flextime);
4. Telecommuting.

(2) Transportation demand strategies:

(a) Improvements to alternative modes such as vanpooling;
(b) Financial incentives given to employees who use commute alternatives;
(c) Parking management programs;
(d) Commute alternatives information and marketing;
(e) Participation in a transportation management association.

(3) Parking limitations:

(a) Parking spaces for any new office development within the Buckhead/Lenox Stations District shall not exceed 2.75 spaces per 1,000 square feet of gross floor area.
(b) Parking spaces for any new mixed-use development consisting of office, hotel, retail or other permissible commercial uses, shall be based upon a shared parking formula approved by the commissioner of public works.
(c) Parking lots shall be designed so as to provide the most convenient accessibility to building entrances by handicapped persons and persons arriving by vanpools and carpools.
 

(Ord. No. 1996-65, §§ 1, 2, 8-28-96)