Code of Massachusetts Regulations › 310 CMR - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Title 310 CMR 60.00 - Air Pollution Control For Mobile Sources › Section 60.04 - MB City of Cambridge Vehicle Trip Reduction

Current through Register 1525, July 5, 2024
(1)
Purpose
. 310 CMR
			 60.04 authorizes the City of Cambridge to implement a vehicle trip reduction
			 program to achieve a combination of reductions in vehicle trips, vehicle miles
			 travelled and vehicle emissions so as to allow for the addition of commercial
			 parking spaces and the added vehicle trips they generate with no net negative
			 impact on air quality. 310 CMR 60.04 authorizes the City of Cambridge to
			 implement the vehicle trip reduction program as a replacement and substitution
			 to the Cambridge Parking Freeze.
(2)
Definitions.
Automobile Efficiency Rate
means the
				figure calculated by dividing the number of employees who report to a worksite
				within the City of Cambridge between 6:00 A.M. and 10:00 A.M. inclusive (Monday
				through Friday to achieve a five consecutive weekday average) by the number of
				vehicles used by those employees to reach the worksite during those hours.
				Bicycles, public transit vehicles, and approved Clean-Fuel vehicles shall be
				excluded from the vehicles counted. Motorcycles and light trucks shall be
				included in the vehicles counted.
Cambridge Parking Freeze
means the
				regulation for a commercial parking freeze in the City of Cambridge at
				40 CFR section
				52.1128 and
				52.1135,
				as modified by
South Terminal Corp. v. EPA
,502 F. 2d 646,
				671-672 (1st Cir. 1974) and the 1978 and 1983 Transportation Elements of the
				SIP, which limited commercial parking spaces in the City to a total of 13,452
				spaces.
Caravan
means Caravan for Commuters
				Inc., a private, non-profit commuter services company which develops and
				markets commuter transportation services.
Carpool
means a vehicle carrying two
				to seven passengers.
City
means the City of Cambridge,
				massachusetts.
Clean fuel
means any fuel or power
				source used in a vehicle that complies with the applicable standards for clean
				fueled vehicles contained in §§ 241-245 of the Clean Air Act,
				42
				U.S.C. §§
										7581 - 7595.
Clean fueled vehicle
means a vehicle
				in a class or category of vehicles which has been certified to meet the
				applicable clean-fuel vehicle standards as defined by and pursuant to the
				federal Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990.
Commercial parking space
means a
				parking space available for use by the general public at any time for a fee and
				shall not include:
(a) parking spaces
			 which are owned or operated by a commercial entity whose primary business is
			 other than the operation of parking facilities, for the exclusive use of its
			 lessees, employees, patrons, customers, clients, patients, guests or residents
			 and not available for use by the general public;
(b) parking spaces restricted for the use of
			 the residents of a specific residential building or group of
			 buildings;
(c) spaces located on
			 public streets; or
(d) spaces
			 located at a park-and-ride facility operated in conjunction with the
			 Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.
Department
means the Department of
				Environmental Protection.
EPA
means the United States
				Environmental Protection Agency.
Flex Time
means a wide range of
				flexible scheduling procedures that allows employees to set their own start
				times at their place of employment with the purpose of avoiding peak commute
				periods.
Four-day Workweek
means a provision
				which allows employees to work the number of hours normally worked in a
				five-day period in a four-day period.
Monitoring and Demonstration Plan
means the monitoring and demonstration plan developed by the City and approved
				by DEP on July 17,1996 for use by the City in connection with 310 CMR 60.04 and
				as it may be amended by the City in consultation with DEP.
MBTA
means the Massachusetts Bay
				Transportation Authority.
Oversight Committee
means a panel
				jointly appointed by the Department and the City.
Preferential Parking
means parking
				spaces reserved for motor vehicles such as carpools, vanpools, ULEVs and ZEVs
				which produce lower emissions than a single occupant vehicle. Preferential
				parking may be provided in more convenient locations to destinations as an
				incentive to utilize lower emitting modes of travel.
SIP
is the portion (or portions) of
				the state implementation plan, or most recent revision thereof, approved under
				§ 110 of the Clean Air Act, or promulgated under § 110(c), or
				promulgated under § 301(d) and which implements the relevant requirements
				of the Clean Air Act.
Telecommuting
means working at home or
				at a satellite facility which substantially reduces the VMT which would occur
				by working at the primary employment location.
ULEV
means an ultra low emitting
				vehicle as defined at
				310 CMR
				7.40.
Vanpool
means a vehicle carrying eight
				or more passengers.
VMT
means vehicle miles
				travelled.
Vehicle trip reduction programs
are
				programs designed to reduce VMT or vehicle trips by influencing travel behavior
				and demand or by reducing air emissions from mobile sources by utilizing clean
				fuels.
ZEV
means a zero emitting passenger
				car or light duty truck which produces zero emissions under any and all
				possible operations.