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Transit Facilities The County CTR program is highly dependent on increasing the transit share of commuter trips. The County will invest in improved transit amenities as part of its frontage improvements. High quality transit shelters will be provided at key transit stops. The County will support higher levels of transit service immediately adjacent to the campus with the conversion of Wetmore Avenue to a two-way street and designation as a "transit oriented" street with shuttle routes from the Everett Station multi-modal facility. The County will also assist in negotiating with Community Transit and Sound Transit to provide direct bus service on Wetmore Avenue, Pacific Avenue and Hewitt Avenue. The County will improve pedestrian facilities on and adjacent to the campus to encourage walking to transit stops and to the Everett Station. Pedestrian and Bicycle Facilities The County redevelopment will include significant enhancements of pedestrian facilities to encourage more walking trips within the downtown area. The pedestrian routes to major destinations, such as adjacent transit stops, may include climate protection and enhanced security elements. The County will also invest in enhanced bicycle facilities for employees, including 75 to 100 highly prominent and accessible bicycle lockers, with showers and change rooms. Traffic Mitigation The City of Everett's mitigation policy as outlined in Ordinance 2425-99 requires a contribution to the City for a development's fair share cost of implementing future local transportation improvements. The contribution is based on the traffic mitigation fee at the time of the formal application. The current fee in the downtown area is $900 per PM peak hour trip for all projects that generate 10 or more daily trips. The campus expansion proposed for 2005 will generate about 120 net new PM peak hour trips, assuming that the CTR goals are achieved. This will require a mitigation fee of$108,000. Traffic impacts on other City streets and intersections are not significant and would not require any further mitigation. However, other frontage improvements are required including rebuilt sidewalks with bulb-outs for pedestrian crossings. transit shelters with lighting and CCTV security, and upgrading of the traffic control signal at Pacific and Rockefeller. Construction Impacts and Mitigation Construction of the underground parking facility and the jail and administrative building additions will create some construction traffic impacts. This is compounded by several other construction projects in the downtown at the same time. including the City of Everett's Special Events Center and several road and utility projects. In addition. the loss of approximately 600 County parking spaces during the construction period will create severe shortages for County employees, visitors and other existing needs. A parking and construction traffic mitigation plan is being developed and implemented in conjunction with the City of Everett. CRI Transportation Impact Analysis Page 2 June 2002