Virginia Administrative Code › Title 24 - TRANSPORTATION AND MOTOR VEHICLES › Agency 30 - DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 155 - TRAFFIC IMPACT ANALYSIS REGULATIONS › Section 24VAC30-155-40 - Rezoning

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
A. Proposal
				submittal. The locality shall submit a package to VDOT within 10 business days
				of receipt of a complete application for a rezoning proposal if the proposal
				substantially affects transportation on state-controlled highways. All trip
				generation calculations used for the purposes of determining if a proposal
				meets the criteria shall be based upon the rates or equations published in the
				Institute of Transportation Engineers Trip Generation, 8th Edition, 2008, and
				shall not be reduced through internal capture rates. For redevelopment sites,
				trips currently generated by existing development that will be removed may be
				deducted from the total site trips that are generated by the proposed land use.
				However, no submission shall be required under this section if the rezoning
				proposal consists of no changes in allowable land use. Furthermore, no
				submission shall be required if the rezoning proposal results in lower maximum
				daily trip generation and no increase in maximum trip generation for AM Peak
				Hour of the adjacent street, PM Peak Hour of the adjacent street, and Weekend
				Peak Hour when compared to the hourly trip generation of land uses allowed by
				right under the current zoning, excepting governmental uses such as schools and
				libraries.
For the purposes of this section, a rezoning proposal shall
				  substantially affect transportation on state-controlled highways if it meets or
				  exceeds one or more of the following trip generation criteria:
1. Within a jurisdiction in which VDOT has
				maintenance responsibility for the secondary highway system, if the proposal
				generates more than 5,000 vehicle trips per day at the site's connection to a
				state-controlled highway. For a site that does not have an entrance onto a
				state-controlled highway, the site's connection is assumed to be wherever the
				road network that the site connects with attaches to a state-controlled
				highway. In cases where the site has multiple entrances to highways, volumes on
				all entrances shall be combined for the purposes of this
				determination;
2. Within a
				jurisdiction in which VDOT does not have maintenance responsibility for the
				local highway system, if the proposal generates more than 5,000 vehicle trips
				per day and whose nearest property line is within 3,000 feet, measured along
				public roads or streets, of a connection to a state-controlled highway;
				or
3. The proposal for residential
				rezoning generates more than 400 daily vehicle trips on a state-controlled
				highway and, once the site generated trips are distributed to the receiving
				highway, the proposal's vehicle trips on the highway exceed the daily traffic
				volume such highway presently carries. For the purposes of determining whether
				a proposal must be submitted to VDOT, the traffic carried on the
				state-controlled highway shall be assumed to be the most recently published
				amount measured in the last traffic count conducted by VDOT or the locality on
				that highway. In cases where the site has access to multiple highways, each
				receiving highway shall be evaluated individually for the purposes of this
				determination.