2017/03/29 Council Agenda Packet

c. Advocate for regional congestion pricing authority, with flexibility to dedicate revenues to projects and services that would serve a variety of different transportation modes and options. 2. Local Initiative: a. Adopt a Transit Communities Policy and create a Transit Communities Development Authority to implement transit-oriented development (TOD), including actions to: ■ Reduce cost and prolonged project review processes in Transit Communities ■ Use zoning and permitting methods to concentrate new growth in proximity to services and transit ■ Implement capital improvements in priority Transit Community corridors. b. If legal authority exists, adopt a process for prioritizing transportation investments as follows: (1) walking, cycling, and transit, followed by (2) freight and goods movement, (3) high occupancy vehicles, and (4) single occupancy vehicles, and using Triple Bottom Line accounting, considering the social, environmental, and financial factors. c. Where parking demand is high, and where legal authority exists, explore: on-street parking pricing, a non-residential parking space tax, requirement of"unbundled parking,6" and/or Parking Benefit Districts, where the local parking fees that are collected fund projects in that same locale. D. Net Zero Carbon New Buildings Target: Implement state law that new buildings will be 70% more efficient by 2030, relative to 2006 as per the Washington State Energy Code. Alignment: Regional Code Collaboration 1. Legislative/State Policy/Collective Action: a. Advocate for the State to: 1) outline a stair-stepped energy code pathway that will enable new residential and commercial buildings to achieve a 70% reduction in annual net energy by 2030 (relative to 2006); and 2) allow cities to adopt an energy code that goes beyond the state's code PRIORITY ACTION: Join the Regional Code Collaboration, and adopt stretch energy code and voluntary strategies to achieve the target. The Regional Code Collaboration is a multi- jurisdictional group of planners and code officials from within and outside of King County that came together starting in 2012 to leverage economies of scale in developing and updating green codes. 2. Local Initiative: 6 Unbundled parking is where the cost of parking for residential or commercial units is not passed on to occupants indirectly in the rent or purchase price, but rather is paid for directly through a separate charge. Unbundling the parking charges is more equitable and can also reduce the total amount of parking that a building requires. NEC/SEI Memo to City of Everett 5 I P a g e