A. The use of alternatives to the single-occupant automobile is beneficial in reducing traffic congestion, excessive parking demand, and associated air pollution, noise, fuel use, vehicle wear and tear, and time losses and inconvenience, and thereby contributes to making the City of Berkeley a more attractive and healthful place to live, work, visit, and do business.

B. Informing commuters about their travel options and the impacts of their travel choices is a vital and necessary part of changing travel behavior. Such information provided through employers and their contractors is an effective and equitable way to encourage commuters to use alternatives to the single-occupant automobile.

C. Surveys of employees’ commute modes are needed by the City from time to time in order to develop effective trip reduction programs and transit systems.

D. Government Code 65089 (Prop. 111) requires the cities in each urbanized county to adopt and implement a trip reduction and travel demand management ordinance which meets the county’s Congestion Management Program requirements.

E. On December 16, 1992, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) adopted Regulation 13, Rule 1, Trip Reduction Requirements for Large Employers. The rule took effect in Alameda County on July 1, 1994. This rule applies to most Bay Area public and private employers of one hundred or more employees. In the City of Berkeley, the rule is being administered and enforced by the BAAQMD. It is in the interest of the City to exclude employers regulated by the BAAQMD from the trip-reduction-related responsibilities of this chapter so as to avoid duplicative regulation. (Ord. 6255-NS § 1 (part), 1994: Ord. 6152-NS § 2, 1992)