Developers Provide Fair Share of Traffic Mitigation :: Use the Public Transit Infrastructure
Pedestrian and Transit Friendly

LADOT is actively involved in the review of all new development projects for traffic impacts and traffic mitigation. The Department utilizes this responsibility to support the City's Smart Growth objectives. Generally, the definition of Smart Growth is to manage new developments in ways to minimize traffic congestion. It is conservatively estimated that LADOT's policies in the last three years have resulted in the reduction of over 3 million daily vehicle trips.

Developers Provide Fair Share of Traffic Mitigation

LADOT reviews new development projects under the adopted quidelines and policies mandated by the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Projects that add significant amount of traffic are reviewed and developers are required to provide traffic mitigations for impacts. The following link is a copy of LADOT's traffic study policies and procedures. In highly congested areas of the City, additional traffic mitigation standards have been set, including the requirement that new development pays traffic impact fees that can be used to implement additional traffic congestion relief measures. There are 5 Transportation Specific Plan areas in the City of Los Angeles, as noted on the Transportation Specific Plan Map.

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Use the Public Transit Infrastructure

The City's General Plan includes a Transportation Element that explicitly states the City's policies to reduce traffic impacts by encouraging development adjacent to rapid transit stations and at nodes of the bus transit system. See the City of Los Angeles General Plan Transportation Element for a description of the City polices and the the Transit Corridors Map. For developments near these locations, the City grants parking reductions and other incentives for development as detailed in the adopted Transportation and Land Use Policy directive.

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Pedestrian and Transit Friendly

New buildings are required to have features that are pedestrian and transit friendly. City Council has further adopted an ordinance that requires the larger developments to consider pedestrian and transit access in design. The ordinance also requires attention to bicycle access. The specifics of this ordinance are located on the TDM Ordinance page.