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Other industry standards for special land use elements of the County Campus Plan were found in previous reports. The HDR Concept Design Summary Report on the Snohomish County Regional Justice Center dated 12/28/2000 cited two references: • Dan Wiley & Associates recommended using four parking spaces per 1,000 square feet of building area for District Courts, and • Omni-Group recommended using 0.235 parking spaces per bed for the Pre- Adjudication Center. Omni Group further suggested that 75% of the spaces were for staff and 25% of the spaces were for public use. They also suggested that a 30% reduction of staff spaces and a 15% reduction of the public spaces could be attributed to bus and carpool use. The current jail is rated at 400 beds although far more inmates are housed there today. The new jail is scheduled for an additional 640 beds to be constructed for a total of 1,040 beds. If the Wiley /Omni-Group standards are applied for the jail and justice components of the County Campus plan in lieu of City Code requirements, then the parking requirements would be about 1,200 parking spaces today and more than 2,300 parking spaces by 2005. None of these standards are considered to be relevant for the Snohomish County facilities. 6.3 County CTR Goals and City GMA Goals The County Campus is a Commute Trip Reduction (CTR) employer. Its goal is to reduce employee commuter travel by SOV to 53% of non-exempt work trips. Currently, we estimate that 71% of all county employees are SOV commuters. If the County was successful in meeting this goal, primarily by increased use of transit and vanpools, it could reduce the employee parking demand by about 23%. A reduction of about 10% of the parking demands might also be possible with jurors if the automatic issuance of parking permits was replaced by bus passes. Courts in King County and Pierce County issue bus passes to jurors when they are summoned. Jurors who wish to drive must find and pay for their parking. The County has a relatively good CTR incentive program but it still fails to meet its goals. If these aggressive CTR goals were met today, the employee parking demand would be reduced to about 950 parking spaces. If this type of travel behavior was attained in the future, a total of about 1,000 employee parking spaces would be required by 2005. The City of Everett published travel behavior goals for different zones in the City in its Comprehensive Plan of 1994 to meet its requirements under the State 1990 Growth Management Act (GMA). The City's overall goal for commute travel to downtown Everett was 55% SOV, 17% transit, 19% carpool and vanpool, 5% walk or bicycle and 4% elimination or substitution (eg telecommute). These goals were to be achieved by 2012. While it is highly unlikely that the City will achieve these goals by 2012, it remains a long-range target. Major downtown CTR employers are essential to not only achieving CRI Transportation Impact Analysis Page 14 June 2002