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Mountain House Transportation Improvement Fee and Transportation Impact Mitigation Fees MHCSD has established the Mountain House Transportation Improvement Fee(MHTIF)to fund community road improvements and improvements on gateway roadways serving the Mountain House community. In addition, — development within the MHCSD will pay Transportation Impact Mitigation Fees(TIMF)as part of the countywide program that funds regional transportation improvements.These fee programs have been established to provide a simple and equitable method for funding transportation mitigation. The MHTIF is designed to fund the mitigation required within the MHMP area that is now contained in the TIF program. Any additional roadway and other transportation costs would be separately funded by the College Park at Mountain House Specific Plan III developers.Each development within the Mountain House community would pay fees based on the number of dwelling units and commercial square footage created.Construction of phased improvements would be required such that traffic LOS is maintained within the adopted standards(LOS D on _ regional gateways,LOS C on community roadways)throughout the community. The MHTIF would fund the community's share of traffic mitigation both within and outside of San Joaquin County.The Offset Program included in the MHTIF recognizes that trips from other counties will also adversely affect roads within the Mountain House community and provides a mechanism through which this shared responsibility can be satisfied.It permits funding of roadway improvements beyond the project's fair share within San Joaquin County as one way to satisfy the community's overall shared funding responsibility. This requires — similar funding of improvements by Contra Costa and Alameda Counties on improvements within their respective jurisdictions,thus eliminating the need for complicated funding agreements between the affected counties.("Fair share"means the community's obligation to participate in the planning,construction,and/or funding for an — infrastructure facility improvement that will be shared with other jurisdictions,to the extent of the community's proportional impact.) In summary,development within the MHMP area is expected to meet its transportation mitigation responsibilities through a combination of the following: • paying MHTIF fees for construction of improvements on regional gateways to the community and roadways within the community,or • building infrastructure within the community as required to maintain LOS within the adopted standard and — paying TIMF fees for construction of improvements elsewhere in the county. According to the agreements adopted by the County and MHCSD,the MHTIF/County TIMF'/Offset Program will — fund the widening of Grant Line Road to four lanes between the Alameda county line and its intersection with I- 580.For example, approximately$5 million has been set aside in the MHTIF for the improvement of Grant Line Road from west of Great Valley Parkway to the Grant Line Road/I-580 interchange.Other roadway sections to be — funded through MHTIF include Byron Road from south of the county line to Grant Line Road, and Grant Line Road from Mountain House Parkway to Byron Road. Final EIR for the Mountain House Master Plan and Specific Plan 1994 (Mitigation Measures) The following lists the transportation mitigation measures that were adopted by San Joaquin County to mitigate the significant impacts identified in the MHMP EIR and that are applicable to the proposed project. Despite the — adoption of these measures,the MHMP EIR concluded that the LOS for regional roadways, including Altamont Pass Road west of Grant Line Road and certain locations on 1-205,1-580,and I-5 would remain unacceptable, resulting in a significant and unavoidable impact. — Mitigation Measure M4.12-1.This measure addressed the need for 1) a Transportation Systems Management(TSM)program,2)a Transportation Management Association, 3)local transit service, 4) — increased proximity of residential and commercial uses as a policy of the MHMP,5) flexible work EDAW College Park at Mountain House Specrfic Plan III Draft EIR Transportation 4.11-12 San Joaquin County