2006/07/12 Council Agenda Packet

PLAN ELEMENTS A minimum of one parking space per residential unit is recommended, however, to ensure that on-street spaces are not overloaded in thea evening and overnight. T- 4 Bicycle parking requirements in City Code. Secure bicycle parking facilities are needed to encourage more employees to ride to work. The recent expansion of the Snohomish County Campus provided a secure lock-up room for 100 bicycles. ;N ' +t A provision needs to be added to the development code to require secure '• x�# ; bicycle parking (individual bike lockers or controlled lock-up rooms) for + 1 '1%; employees. The code should require one secure bicycle parking spacekjl y3 per 5,000 square feet of commercial office or retail floor area. The code a " ? F;cVatgam should further require provision of shower and locker facilities for 1 + � employees in all commercial buildings greater than 20,000 square feet. On-street bicycle parking racks should be provided for customers . wherever appropriate. These facilities should be included in the downtown street standards to ensure consistency with other street Figure 68. Bike storage locker. furniture and themes. T- 5 Bicycle lanes on Hoyt Avenue. North-south bicycle corridors to and through downtown are considered essential to attract more people to use this mode of travel. Hoyt Avenue is considered the prime candidate for a north-south bicycle route that would connect the bike lanes on Colby Avenue at 23fd Street to the Interurban Trail at 41s` Street in the south. Angle parking on Hoyt Avenue must be redesigned to parallel parking to accommodate designated bike lanes in each direction. The route will take cyclists through the downtown core and past the Everett Library, the Monte Cristo, the Childrens' Museum and the Post Office. EVERETT DOWNTOWN PLAN — DRAFT 6/29/2006 75