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EXHIBIT "A" West Las Positas Interchange Study Interim Policy for New Development Applications The following policies shall be in effect from the date of adoption of this resolution until the date the City Council has acted upon the recommendations of the West Las Positas Interchange Study. Proposed projects will be processed as submitted following standard City application processing procedures. Staff shall include an analysis of the traffic impacts of every project on the neighborhoods and 1-680 interchanges at Bernal Avenue, Stoneridge Drive, and West Las Positas Boulevard. This analysis shall include a comparison of the traffic anticipated from the site in the General Plan with the traffic projected from the proposed project. It shall also include an analysis of any specific project mitigation measures designed to allow the City to achieve its General Plan Circulation Element goals and policies, with or without the West Las Positas Interchange. Applicants of projects which have a bearing on the traffic issues relating to the West Las Positas Interchange are encouraged to include proposed traffic mitigations which have a positive impact on the City's traffic circulation system, assuming the elimination of the West Las Positas Interchange from the City's traffic circulation network. Staff is hereby directed to incorporate the following concepts as standard conditions of approval: The developer's agreement to pay its fair share of alternative traffic mitigation measures, with or without the West I. as Positas Interchange; The developer's aclcnowledgement that the City is not guaranteeing that existing LOS standards be maintained in perpetuity and that no guarantee is made the City will be responsible for keeping those intersections at LOS D or better; and C® If a building permit or other action which vests the project approval pursuant to State law, whether approved at the time of initial discretionary approval or subsequent to it, has not been obtained within two years of receipt of City discretionary approval, the approval shall lapse; and The developer's commitment to implement a proactive Transportation Systems Management program or other measures which will positively mitigate the project's otherwise anticipated traffic impacts.