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• The Decision Document requires a significant transportation mitigation payment at the <br /> onset of project implementation and substantial annual installments for three years <br /> thereafter. <br /> Conclusions: <br /> • State SEPA rules and the City's SEPA Ordinance require that mitigation of all impacts <br /> be pursued in a timely fashion, not necessarily in precise concurrence with construction. <br /> SEPA rules and the City's Ordinance do not require that mitigation be implemented prior <br /> to issuance of permits. <br /> • Mitigation requirements must be based upon formally adopted SEPA policies. <br /> • Mitigation requirements are based upon traffic impacts identified in the EIS and the <br /> Traffic Mitigation Policy set forth in the City's ITMO. <br /> • The approval of a Master Plan through the SEPA process benefits the public by <br /> identifying and mitigating impacts for the entire Expansion. <br /> • The requirement to tie the mitigation of impacts precisely to construction of individual <br /> buildings is neither required nor necessarily appropriate if public commitments are <br /> pursued and the applicant has contributed its fair share toward those commitments. <br /> • The approach, provided for in the Decision Document, to assess the applicant up-front <br /> for the Master Plan development impact mitigation is consistent with all applicable <br /> requirements governing the issuance of permits. <br /> • The mitigation payments required by the Decision Document provide funding certainty <br /> to a mitigation program which is dependent on multijurisdictional cooperation for <br /> funding and implementing the required transportation improvements. <br /> • The certainty of Boeing's share of funding as provided for in the Decision Document is <br /> important to facilitate prioritizing of these improvements in the funding schedule of other <br /> agencies, especially the State Department of Transportation. <br /> • Mitigation measures imposed are based upon the City's formally adopted SEPA policies, <br /> are sufficient to mitigate identified transportation impacts and are supported by the <br /> record. <br /> • Appellant's allegations are not supported by the record. <br /> 40 <br />