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EVERETT 2044 <br />COMPREHENSIVE PLAN <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> 6/17/2025 <br />COMPREHENSIVE PLAN <br />TRANSPORTATION ELEMENT <br /> Page 112 <br />Environmental Considerations <br />To help Everett meet its Climate Goals, the Transportation Element includes projects, plans and policies <br />that utilize a climate-resilient framework to mitigate the negative impacts of transportation on the <br />climate. By setting goals to achieve more trips on transit and active transportation, expanding shared <br />mobility options, continuing to invest in Electric Vehicle infrastructure among other strategies, Everett is <br />committed to a climate-resilient future. <br />Proposed Projects <br />Background <br />As described in the prior sections, this Transportation Element builds on a network of local and regional <br />plans that provide a framework of transportation strategies that add context to Everett’s broader <br />objectives. <br />Many of these plans include transportation project and program recommendations that provided a <br />starting point for the project list in this Transportation Element. Some new projects and programs were <br />identified to align with city goals and respond to identified gaps and deficiencies in the city’s <br />transportation networks. <br />New sidewalk projects were identified to fill in gaps in the streets shown earlier on Figure 10 (Street <br />Designations), bicycle projects mainly came from the Bicycle Master Plan which had already identified <br />an interconnected system of bicycle facilities, and roadway projects included those intersections that do <br />not meet (now or in the future) roadway level of service standards. <br />New development may adversely impact the transportation network. In that event, the development <br />approval should occur only when the City’s multimodal level of service standard is met or can be met <br />within six years through mitigations funded by the development. These mitigations may include <br />strategies, such as active transportation facility improvements, increased or enhanced public <br />transportation service, ride-sharing programs, demand management, and other transportation systems <br />management strategies, based on the judgement of the City Engineer. Development shall be prohibited <br />if these conditions are not met. <br />Project List Development <br />A core aspect of the Transportation Element is its role in guiding local and regional transportation <br />investments by evaluating the city’s transportation programs, and projects for the next 20 years against <br />the proposed goals and policies, One way it does this is by establishing a methodology for prioritizing <br />projects to be included within regular six-year Transportation Improvement Plan (TIP) and Capital <br />Improvement Plan (CIP) documents. <br />A prioritization framework creates an objective way to compare projects on the project list, evaluate <br />how well projects advance city goals, and best allocate predicted revenues to a financially constrained <br />twenty-year project list. <br />• The overall process for project prioritization is summarized in Figure 12 below and the project <br />evaluation criteria are summarized in the Project Evaluation Criteria table.