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Aps, Igures, and Ables: Local Area Transportation Review and Policy Area Mobility Review Guidelines M-NCPPC

This document provides guidelines for conducting Local Area Transportation Reviews (LATR) and Policy Area Mobility Reviews (PAMR) in Montgomery County, Maryland. It includes 10 tables and 2 figures that relate to different aspects of the review process, such as congestion standards, trip mitigation requirements, checklists for traffic studies, and calculations related to level of service. The guidelines are intended to help applicants prepare traffic studies and reviews to determine transportation facility adequacy for development as required by the county's Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance. The county is divided into policy areas and traffic zones, and the guidelines establish the specific congestion standards and mitigation requirements that apply based on the policy area where a proposed development is located

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Aps, Igures, and Ables: Local Area Transportation Review and Policy Area Mobility Review Guidelines M-NCPPC

This document provides guidelines for conducting Local Area Transportation Reviews (LATR) and Policy Area Mobility Reviews (PAMR) in Montgomery County, Maryland. It includes 10 tables and 2 figures that relate to different aspects of the review process, such as congestion standards, trip mitigation requirements, checklists for traffic studies, and calculations related to level of service. The guidelines are intended to help applicants prepare traffic studies and reviews to determine transportation facility adequacy for development as required by the county's Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance. The county is divided into policy areas and traffic zones, and the guidelines establish the specific congestion standards and mitigation requirements that apply based on the policy area where a proposed development is located

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MAPS, FIGURES, and TABLES

Map 1
Montgomery County, Maryland Annual Growth Policy Areas .................................................................... 7

Table 1
LATR Intersection Congestion Standards by Policy Area .......................................................................... 8

Figure 1
PAMR for Montgomery County - 2007 Growth Policy……………………………………………………… ................. 9

Table 2
Trip Mitigation Required by Policy Area………………………………… ............................................................. 10

Table 3
PAMR and LATR Approaches to Mitigating Unacceptable Impacts ........................................................ 12

Figure 2
Checklist for Determining the Completeness of Traffic Studies ............................................................. 14

Table 4
Signalized Intersections to be Included in a Traffic Study ...................................................................... 20

Table 5
Graduated and Maximum Trip Credits Related to Congestion Standards............................................. 33

Table 6
Montgomery County Lane Use Factors .................................................................................................... 38

Table 7
Critical Volume Calculations ..................................................................................................................... 39

Table 8
Relative Arterial Mobility and Arterial LOS……………………………………...................................................... 42

Table 9
Relative Transit Mobility and Transit LOS……………………………….......................................................... …43

Table 10
Equivalency Between Transit LOS and Arterial LOS………………………. .................................................... 43

Table 11
Trip Mitigation Required by Policy Area………………………………… ........................................................ …..44

Table 12
PAMR Mitigation Options for Providing Roadway Capacity……… ............................................... ………….47

Page 5 Local Area Transportation Review and Policy Area Mobility Review Guidelines M-NCPPC
Introduction
A. Background

County Code Section 50-35(k) (the Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance or APFO) directs the
Montgomery County Planning Board to approve preliminary plans of subdivision or other
approvals that require a finding of Adequate Public Facilities (APF) only after finding that public
facilities will be adequate to serve the subdivision. This involves forecasting future travel demand
from private development and comparing it to the capacity of existing and programmed public
transportation facilities.

In accordance with the 2009-2011 Growth Policy adopted by the County Council on November
10, 2009, subdivision applications are subject to two transportation tests called Local Area
Transportation Review (LATR) and Policy Area Mobility Review (PAMR).

B. Policy Areas

The County is divided into traffic zones, which are grouped into policy areas (Map 1). The
congestion standards for both LATR and the mitigation requirements for PAMR are established
by the County Council, adopted in these Guidelines, and applied to policy areas.

C. Local Area Transportation Review and Policy Area Mobility Review Standards

The Local Area Transportation Review and Policy Area Mobility Review Guidelines are to be used
by applicants in preparing reports to the Planning Board that determine the requirement for and
the scope of a traffic study or review prepared by an applicant for APF review and mandatory
referral cases brought before the Planning Board.

The Guidelines are also recognized as the standard for reports to the Board of Appeals and the
Hearing Examiner for special exception and zoning cases.

The Guidelines may also apply to building permit review for cases requiring an APF finding
without subdivision, though in limited cases (less than 12 months vacancy, no increase in square
footage, fewer than 30 peak hour trips) the APF test may be approved administratively by staff.

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