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| | | An Act To Provide Incentives for Development and To Amend |
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| | | Traffic Movement Permit Standards |
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| | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: |
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| | | Sec. 1. 23 MRSA §704-A, sub-§1, ¶A-1 is enacted to read: |
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| | | A-1.__"High-speed rural arterial highway" means an arterial | | highway as defined in section 704 that is not located in the | | urban compact area of an urban compact municipality as | | described in section 754 and where the posted speed limit at | | the time of the application for a traffic movement permit is | | 40 miles per hour or greater. |
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| | | Sec. 2. 23 MRSA §704-A, sub-§1, ¶D is enacted to read: |
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| | | D.__"Traffic demand management techniques"__means measures | | taken to reduce or spread peak hour traffic over a longer | | period of time.__Such measures include, but are not limited | | to, on-site facilities or on-site design considerations to | | support local, regional or state bicycle, pedestrian, | | passenger rail, transit and ride-sharing efforts or plans.__ | | The department may not require operational support of | | passenger transportation systems or require parking | | management strategies of the permit applicant. |
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| | | Sec. 3. 23 MRSA §704-A, sub-§2, ¶C, as enacted by PL 1999, c. 468, §2, | | is repealed. |
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