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BACKGROUND The City of Pleasanton requires all development to mitigate the traffic impacts generated by the proposed projects. When the City receives a development proposal, the development is checked to see if it matches the development size and type identified in the General Plan and the Traffic Impact Fee Report. If the project matches, a traffic impact analysis is not required. If the development significantly changes the size or type of development from what is shown in the General Plan or the Traffic Impact Fee Report, then the project developer is required to fund a traffic impact analysis (TIA) to determine the change in impact to the circulation network and any possible additional mitigation required. The City of Pleasanton has used on call transportation consultants for the past 10 years to conduct traffic modeling and complete TIA reports. The TIA is funded by the developer, but the contract administration and project management is conducted by the City of Pleasanton. This allows the City to work directly with the transportation consultant to ensure that all of the elements of the TIA are addressed prior to the final report. The on call consultant has, in the past, been a single traffic consultant that maintained the model and conducted all TIA reports. This approach, while good in prioritizing model runs and TIA completion priorities, often created burdensome workloads and extended TIA final report delivery times. This delay added significant amounts of time to the developer project approval timeline. To remedy this delay, the City moved away from the use of a single traffic consultant for TIA reports and has been advertising and awarding each TIA independently. The independent advertisement and award creates some delay in project completion, which will be eliminated with the on call consultant services contracts. DISCUSSION The cost of a traffic impact analysis can range between $5,000 and $100,000 depending on the size of the project, with most traffic impact analysis reports costing around $30,000. Over the past 2 years the total contract amounts for on call transportation consultant work averaged just above $400,000 per year. The majority of this work was for the completion of TIA's and City-related on call transportation consultant services. The on call transportation consultant services contracts will allow for improved project delivery time by eliminating the need to advertise and authorize each TIA. The elimination of these steps could reduce the final report delivery time by up to two months. This will allow developers to complete their development review in a more timely fashion. It is anticipated that a similar number of development projects will be brought to the City of Pleasanton in the next several years. The approval of three on call consultants allows for greater flexibility in meeting developer timelines and maintains the Page 2 of 3