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parking, showers, and lockers can be provided. Bicycle parking should be provided as a ratio of total parking stalls, with a minimum specified. A higher ratio may be warranted in dense urban areas. 2. Require employee parking to be designed and located to ensure direct, convenient, and safe access for pedestrians and transit riders between the street and the building entrance. 3. Work with transit agencies and site developers to establish requirements for transit facilities, if the site is located adjacent to a street with existing or planned transit service. Provision of pedestrian facilities, such as covered walkways, also should be encouraged, in exchange for reductions in required parking. Guidelines for parking layout and other site design elements that are compatible with transit use can be found in A Guide to Land Use and Public Transportation, Snohomish County Transportation Authority (SNO-TRAN), December 1989. Parking Cost The City encourages employers to consider employee parking charges to help achieve CTR goals, as well as specific parking management suggestions in the discussion of Model Employer Programs, in the Task Force Guidelines document. In addition, the City is considering the following Task Force recommendations. 1. Pursue educational and incentive strategies first to determine if CTR goals can be achieved without parking charges. 2. Pursue the use of Congestion Management Funds available through the Federal Congestion Management and Relief and Surface Transportation Program to support demonstration projects that provide incentives to encourage new and existing property owners to reduce parking supply and/or charge employees for parking. 41