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§5-6 Traffic Impact Studies Model Land Use Management Code and compare it to the thresholds specified in this ordinance to determine whether a traffic impact study is required. Applicants for discretionary development proposals shall provide sufficient information about the development proposal (e.g., number of dwelling units, square footage of buildings, number of employees, land area of the development, etc.) for the Land Use Officer to apply professionally accepted trip generation rates to the proposed development. The Land Use Officer shall not accept a discretionary development proposal for processing unless it contains the data on the proposed development necessary to apply available trip generation rates. §5-6-9 CASES WHERE DATA ARE NOT AVAILABLE In the event that information submitted by the applicant of the discretionary development proposal is sufficient to calculate the trip generation that would be expected to result from the proposed development, but trip generation rates or other data are not available or in sufficient quantity of studies to make a determination of applicability under the terms of this Ordinance, this Section shall apply. (a) The Land Use Officer shall first determine if: (1) professionally acceptable trip generation rates applicable to the subject development exist from other reputable sources, such as the Journal of the Institute of Transportation Engineers; (2) other trip generation studies of similar developments are available; or (3) professionally acceptable trip generation rates for one or more similar land uses can be used in making the determination of applicability. If the Land Use Officer is able to provide such information and determines it is professionally reputable, then the Land Use Officer shall use said data to make the determination of applicability. The Land Use Officer shall have no more than ten (10) working days to comply with the provisions of this paragraph, when it applies. (b) In the event the Land Use Officer is unable to make a determination of applicability, the Land Use Officer shall notify the proposed applicant in writing that professionally accepted trip generation rates are not available for purposes of making a determination of applicability. (c) Upon receipt of notice described in paragraph (b) of this Section, the applicant for a discretionary development proposal shall have thirty (30) days to have a qualified professional prepare and submit a peak -hour trip generation study as defined by this ordinance. §5-6-10 SPECIFICATIONS FOR PEAK -HOUR TRIP GENERATION STUDIES (a) Discounting of pass -by trips. The peak -hour trip generation study may subtract from the empirical data on actual vehicle trips those trips that are reasonably considered to be "pass -by" trips as defined by this Resolution [Ordinance], using professionally accepted assumptions about the percent of pass -by trips approved by the Land Use Officer. (b) Reduction for internal trips in multi -use or mixed use developments. In calculating the new trips generated from a proposed development containing multiple uses or mixed uses, a qualified professional with the approval of the Land Use Officer may apply a percentage reduction to the total vehicle trips shown in any peak hour trip generation study to account for internal trips, as defined in this Resolution [Ordinance], so as to account for (discount) the number of internal trips reasonably 4 P157