HomeMy WebLinkAbout2020-11-03; City Council; Resolution 2020-214RESOLUTION NO. 2020-214
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CARLSBAD,
CALIFORNIA, DETERMINING THE STREET FACILITY ON SOUTHBOUND EL
CAMINO REAL BETWEEN TAMARACK AVENUE AND CANNON ROAD TO BE
BUILT OUT AND EXEMPT FROM THE VEHICULAR LEVEL OF SERVICE
PERFORMANCE STANDARD, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE GENERAL PLAN
MOBILITY ELEMENT POLICY 3-P.9 AND THE CITYWIDE FACILITIES AND
IMPROVEMENTS PLAN CIRCULATION PERFORMANCE STANDARD
WHEREAS, on July 1, 1986 the City Council passed and adopted Ordinance No. 9808 amending
Title 21 of the Carlsbad Municipal Code (CMC) by the addition of Chapter 21.90 establishing a Growth
Management Plan (GMP) for the city; and
WHEREAS, on Nov. 4, 1986, Carlsbad voters passed Proposition E, initiative Ordinance No. 9824,
establishing residential dwelling unit limits in the city's four quadrants and requiring that public
facilities be made available concurrent with need in accordance with the city's growth management
program; and
WHEREAS, the GMP makes the approval of new development contingent upon adequacy of
public facilities, based on performance standards for eleven identified public facilities; and
WHEREAS, the Citywide Facilities and Improvements Plan (CFIP) includes the circulation
performance standard that requires facilities to maintain Level of Service (LOS) D or better, excluding
LOS exempt intersections and streets approved by the City Council; and
WHEREAS, the GMP requires annual monitoring to measure adequate performance of various
public facilities, including circulation; and
WHEREAS, the General Plan Mobility Element, adopted in September 2015, requires that the
city's LOS analyses for growth management purposes use Highway Capacity Manual (HCM)
methodology; and
WHEREAS, staff employed HCM methodology for its LOS analyses in the fiscal year (FY) 2018-
2019 annual monitoring report, in lieu of the city's prior use of the Intersection Capacity Utilization
Carlsbad (ICU-C) methodology; and
WHEREAS, CMC Section 21.90.080 states, "If at any time after the preparation of a local facilities
management plan the performance standards established by a plan are not met then no development
permits or building permits shall be issued within the local zone until the performance standard is met
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or arrangements satisfactory to the City Council guaranteeing the facilities and improvements have
been made."; and
WHEREAS, the General Plan Mobility Element, Policy 3-P.9, allows City Council to exempt the
vehicle mode of travel from the LOS D standard for a street intersection or facility that has been
identified as built- out because one or more enumerated criteria has been met; and
WHEREAS, General Plan Mobility Element Policy 3-P.11 requires new development that adds
vehicle traffic to street facilities that are exempt from the vehicle LOS D standard to implement
Transportation Demand Management (TDM) and Transportation System Management (TSM)
strategies to improve the efficiency of the existing transportation system, reduce reliance on single-
occupant automobiles and provide attractive alternatives to driving an automobile according to the
city's livable streets vision; and
WHEREAS, the FY 2018-2019 annual monitoring report identified the following street facility
not meeting the LOS D performance standard: El Camino Real southbound from Tamarack Avenue to
Cannon Road; and
WHEREAS, on Oct. 20, 2020, the City Council considered and unanimously approved city staff's
recommendation to determine the LOS D performance standard deficiency in the FY 2018-2019 annual
monitoring report for the above-described street facility; and
WHEREAS, city staff recommends addressing the LOS deficiency for the above-described street
facility through an exemption to the LOS D standard pursuant to Mobility Element Policy 3-P.9, because
roadway improvements would require more than three through lanes in each direction of travel, which
is inconsistent with the General Plan Mobility Element, acquiring additional right of way is not feasible
and analyses have been conducted to show that all feasible measures will be provided by the project
to improve the facility's operation; and
WHEREAS, for the above-described street facility, staff recommends that the City Council
determine the deficient street facility to be built-out and exempt from the LOS D standard and apply
TDM and TSM strategies to new development that adds vehicle traffic to the exempt street facilities;
and
WHEREAS, the city has determined that exempting the street facility from the vehicular LOS
performance standard pursuant to Mobility Element Policy 3-P.9 would not result in any significant
environmental impacts because (1) this would maintain existing conditions and would therefore not
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result in an environmental impact (CEQA Guidelines Section 15126.2), and (2) vehicular LOS is no
longer considered an environmental impact under CEQA (Pub. Res. Code § 21099(b)(2)). Therefore,
the city finds that exemption of the street facility from vehicular LOS standards is exempt from CEQA
pursuant to Pub. Res. Code § 21080(b)(5), and CEQA Guidelines §§ 15305, 15061(b)(3)).
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Carlsbad, California, as
follows:
1. That the above recitations are true and correct.
2. That the City Council determines El Camino Real southbound from Tamarack Avenue to
Cannon Road is built-out and exempt from the LOS performance standard for the vehicle
mode of travel under General Plan Mobility Element Policy 3-P.9(d), as roadway
improvements to address the deficiency would require more than three through travel
lanes in each direction and acquiring additional right of way is not feasible, such that
future development which adds vehicle traffic to this exempt street facility shall
implement TDM and TSM strategies in accordance with General Plan Mobility Element
Policy 3-P.11.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED at a Regular Meeting of the City Council of the City of
Carlsbad on the 3rd day of November, 2020, by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: Hall, Blackburn, Bhat-Patel, Schumacher.
NAYS: None.
ABSENT: None.
MATT HALL, Mayor
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BARBARA ENGLESON, City Clerk
(SEAL)
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