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§5-6 Traffic Impact Studies Model Land Use Management Code §5-6-17 DETERMINATION OF PROJECT AND SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS The Land Use Officer shall determine which mitigation measures constitute "project" improvements and which mitigation measures constitute "system" improvements within the context of the Georgia Development Impact Fee Act of 1990. In the event that a particular improvement is called for in the traffic impact study or recommended by the Land Use Officer, and the Land Use Officer is unable to uniquely attribute the recommendation as a project or system improvement or finds that such improvement has characteristics of both a project improvement and a system improvement, the Land Use Officer shall determine the proportion of the cost of such improvement that can reasonably be attributed to the development as a project improvement, and the portion of such improvement that can reasonably be considered a system improvement. fSee Commentarvl §5-6-18 CONDITIONS OF DEVELOPMENT APPROVAL FOR PROJECT IMPROVEMENTS Upon the determination of project improvements needed to mitigate the traffic impacts of the discretionary development proposal as provided in this ordinance, the Land Use Officer shall recommend that the project improvements be completed by the developer as conditions of approval of the discretionary development proposal. §5-6-19 SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS When the Land Use Officer recommends improvements as a condition of a development proposal that the Land Use Officer determines are wholly or partially "system" improvements, the Land Use Office may include such recommendations in the recommended conditions of approval for the discretionary development application. The development applicant and the city [county] in the case of system improvements shall have the following options: (a) The applicant for a discretionary development proposal may voluntarily agree to pay for the cost of providing the system improvements, or a pro -rated share of the cost of said system improvements that are reasonably attributed to the subject development, as determined by the county [city]. (b) If the mitigation measure is a system improvement that is specifically listed in the county's [city's] capital improvement element of the comprehensive plan as an impact fee -eligible system improvement, then the development applicant may agree to install the system improvement and the county [city] may agree to provide an impact fee "credit" or partial credit pursuant to the Development Impact Fee Ordinance. (c) The county [city] may determine that the road impact fee required by the county's [city's] Development Impact Fee Ordinance is sufficient with regard to mitigating the need for system improvements generated by the proposed development and approve the subject development without conditions relative to system improvements. In such cases, the county [city] may subsequently use the traffic impact study for future long range transportation planning efforts and may consider the recommendations of the traffic impact study in a future update of its E P162