(1) “Affected employee” means a full-time employee who begins his or her regular work day at a single work site between 6:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. (inclusive) on two or more weekdays.

(2) “Affected employer” means a public or private employer that, for 12 consecutive months, employs 100 or more affected employees at a single work site who are scheduled to begin their regular work day between 6:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. (inclusive) on two or more weekdays.

The intent is to include any employer that has 100 or more full-time employees on-site between 6:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. (inclusive), even if the individual employees vary over time. Construction work sites are excluded from this definition when the expected duration of the construction is less than two years.

(3) “Alternative mode” means any means of commute transportation other than that in which the single-occupant motor vehicle is the dominant mode, including telecommuting and compressed work weeks if they result in reducing commute trips.

(4) “Alternative work schedules” mean programs such as compressed work weeks that eliminate work trips for affected employees.

(5) “Base year” means the period from January 1, 1992, through December 31, 1992, on which goals for vehicle miles traveled per employee and proportion of single-occupant vehicle trips are based.

(6) “Carpool” means a motor vehicle occupied by two to six people traveling together for their commute trip that results in the reduction of at least one motor vehicle commute trip.

(7) “Commute trips” mean trips made from a worker’s home to a work site for a regularly scheduled work day beginning between 6:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. (inclusive) on weekdays.

(8) “Commute Trip Reduction Task Force Guidelines, July 1992” means the guidelines adopted by the State Commute Trip Reduction Task Force as established by RCW 70.94.537.

(9) “Compliance” means fully implementing all provisions in an approved CTR program within the deadlines established in this chapter and meeting or exceeding VMT and SOV goals of this chapter.

(10) “Compressed work week” means an alternative work schedule, in accordance with employer policy, that regularly allows a full-time employee to eliminate at least one work day every two weeks by working longer hours during the remaining days, resulting in fewer commute trips by the employee. This definition is primarily intended to include weekly and biweekly arrangements, the most typical being four 10-hour working days or 80 hours in nine working days, but may also include other arrangements. Compressed work weeks are understood to be an ongoing arrangement.

(11) “CTR plan” means the King County commute trip reduction plan, as adopted by King County Ordinance 10733 and subsequent amendments, to regulate and administer the CTR programs of affected employers within its jurisdiction.

(12) “CTR program” means an employer’s strategies to reduce affected employees’ SOV use and VMT per employee.

(13) “CTR zone” means an area, such as a census tract or combination of census tracts, within the City of Covington characterized by similar employment density, population density, level of transit service, parking availability, access to high occupancy vehicle facilities and other factors that are determined to affect the level of SOV commuting.

(14) “Director” means the Director of the Department of Public Works or his or her authorized designee.

(15) “Employee” means anyone who receives financial or other compensation in exchange for work provided to an employer, including owners and partners of the employer.

(16) “Employer” means a sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, unincorporated association, cooperative, joint venture, agency, department, district or other individual or entity, whether public, nonprofit or private, that employs workers.

(17) “Exemption” means a waiver from CTR program requirements granted to an employer by the City based on unique conditions that apply to the employer or employment site.

(18) “Flex-time” is an employer policy allowing individual employees some flexibility in choosing the time, but not the number, of their working hours to facilitate the use of alternative modes.

(19) “Full-time employee” means a person, other than an independent contractor, scheduled to be employed on a continuous basis for 52 weeks for an average of at least 35 hours per week.

(20) “Good faith effort” means that an employer has met the minimum requirement identified in RCW 70.94.531 and this chapter, and is working collaboratively with the City to continue its existing CTR program or is developing and implementing program modifications likely to result in improvements to its CTR program over an agreed upon length of time.

(21) “Implementation” means active pursuit by an employer of the CTR goals of RCW 70.94.521 through 70.94.551 and this chapter as evidenced by appointment of a transportation coordinator, distribution of information to employees regarding alternatives to SOV commuting and commencement of other measures according to their CTR program and schedule.

(22) “Mode” means the means of transportation used by employees, such as single-occupant motor vehicle, rideshare vehicle (carpool, vanpool), transit, ferry, bicycle and walking.

(23) “Peak period” means the hours from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. (inclusive), Monday through Friday, except legal holidays.

(24) “Peak period trip” means any employee trip that delivers the employee to a work site to begin his or her regular workday between 6:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. (inclusive), Monday through Friday, except legal holidays.

(25) “Proportion of single-occupant vehicle trips” or “SOV rate” means the number of commute trips over a set period made by affected employees in single-occupant vehicles divided by the number of affected employees working during that period.

(26) “Single-occupant vehicle (SOV)” means a motor vehicle occupied by one employee for commute purposes, including a motorcycle.

(27) “Single-occupant vehicle (SOV) trips” means trips made by affected employees in single-occupant vehicles.

(28) “Single work site” means a building or group of buildings occupied by one or more major employers which are on physically contiguous parcels of land or on parcels separated solely by private or public roadways or rights-of-way.

(29) “Telecommuting” means the use of telephones, computers or other similar technology to permit an employee to work from home, eliminating a commute trip, or to work from a work place closer to home, reducing the distance traveled in a commute trip by at least half.

(30) “Transit” means a multiple-occupant vehicle operated on a for-hire, shared-ride basis, including bus, ferry, rail, shared-ride taxi, shuttle bus or vanpool.

(31) “Transportation demand management (TDM)” means a program designed to reduce SOV commute travel during the peak commute traffic period between 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. (inclusive), Monday through Friday.

(32) “Transportation management organization (TMO)” means a group of employers or an association representing a group of employers in a defined geographic area. A TMO may represent employers within specific City limits, or may have a sphere of influence that extends beyond City limits.

(33) “Vanpool” means a vehicle occupied by seven to 15 people traveling together for their commute trip that results in the reduction of a minimum of one motor vehicle trip. A vanpool trip counts as zero vehicle trips.

(34) “Variable work schedule” means a work schedule that includes rotating shifts in which the employee is assigned different start times during the year, noncontinuous schedules in which an employee reports to the work site only during specified periods of a continuous 12 month period or other work schedule arrangements outside of a regularly scheduled continuous work period.

(35) “Vehicle miles traveled (VMT) per employee” means the sum of the distance in miles of individual vehicle commute trips made by affected employees over a set period divided by the number of affected employees during that period.

(36) “Week” means a seven-day calendar period, starting on Monday and continuing through Sunday.

(37) “Weekday” means any day of the week except Saturday or Sunday.

(38) “Writing,” “written,” or “in writing” means original signed and dated documents. Facsimile (fax) transmissions are a temporary notice of action that must be followed by the original signed and dated document via mail or delivery. (Amended at request of department 2/08; Ord. 38-02 § 2 (12.60.010))