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3. Existing Transportation Infrastructure 3. 1 Parking Facilities Snohomish County currently owns, leases or rents about 880 parking spaces in a number of surface parking lots and garage structures in the downtown area for its employees, fleet vehicles,jurors and other customers and visitors to the campus. The current allocation of these parking spaces is shown on Table 1 and the locations of the parking facilities are shown on Figure 1. Table I Current CounCampus Parking Allocations Allocation I Spaces % of Spaces Employees 449 51% Fleet 272 31% Jury 86 10% Visitor/Customer 73 8% Total 880 100% 3.2 Vehicular Access Regional access to the County campus is provided by the arterial streets of: • Broadway is a principal north-south arterial connecting with 1-5 on the south of the downtown area and becoming SR 529 north of the downtown. Broadway passes one block east of the County campus. • Rucker Avenue is a principal north-south arterial from SR 99 on the south connecting with SR 529 (Everett Avenue and Wets Marine View Drive) in the downtown area. Rucker Avenue is located three blocks west of the County campus. • Colby Avenue is a north-south arterial street through the downtown area one block to the west of the County campus. • Pacific Avenue is an east-west arterial street connecting from I-5 to West Marine View Drive. It is immediately adjacent to the south of the County campus. • Hewitt Avenue is an east-west arterial street connecting from SR 2 under 1-5 to West Marine View Drive. It is one block north of the County campus. • Everett Avenue (SR 529) is an east-west arterial street connecting from 1-5 to West Marine View Drive. It is three blocks north of the County campus. Access to key County parking facilities is primarily from Oakes Avenue and Wall Street which have direct connections to all of the above regional arterial streets. The existing County parking garage with 503 parking spaces has a primary access on Oakes Avenue with a secondary access from Wall Street. Surface parking on the jail site is accessed primarily from Oakes with secondary access to the sally port via Lombard Avenue and Wall Street. Surface parking north of Wall Street is accessible via Wall Street and Rockefeller Avenue. CRI Transportation Impact Analysis Page 5 June 2002