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EVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN <br />Policy 2.1.7: Support maintenance of existing rail <br />and water corridors and the expansion <br />of the capacity of those corridors <br />consistent with the City's economic <br />development goals. <br />Policy 2.1.8: Include emergency service providers in <br />review of roadway designs to ensure <br />emergency vehicle passage. Design <br />considerations include dead-end street <br />lengths, turn-arounds, travel lane <br />widths, maximum road grades, and <br />parking location. <br />Policy 2.1.9: Design neighborhood streets to be <br />compatible with abutting land uses. <br />Policy 2.20: Consider reduced parking requirements <br />for complementary land uses, <br />innovative parking management <br />strategies, or non -motorized amenities <br />that exceed the minimum requirements <br />for a development based on an <br />approved traffic and parking analysis. <br />Policy 2.21.: Reduce disaster related impacts to <br />transportation systems by coordinating <br />response planning and developing <br />strategies for prevention, mitigation <br />and recovery. <br />Policy 3.3: Provide appropriate transportation <br />infrastructure to support public and <br />private transit -oriented development. <br />POIicy 3.4: Develop a transportation system that <br />achieves Level of Service (LOS) <br />standards for all road users as follows: <br />LOS D for PM peak hour vehicular traffic <br />except at designated locations, and <br />yellow or green standard for Pedestrian, <br />Bicycle, and Transit LOS, as described in <br />the Transportation Element Update. <br />Policy 3-5: Coordinate with state and regional <br />entities to ensure continued mobility on <br />state routes (including 1-5, SR 526, and <br />US 2), including improvements to <br />achieve the stated level of service <br />standards for these facilities. <br />GOAL 4 <br />Reduce Impacts. Reduce transportation -related <br />environmental and community impacts. <br />Policy 4.1.: Encourage the use of travel modes that <br />minimize the impacts of transportation <br />systems on the environment, <br />neighborhoods and quality of life and <br />that contribute to clean air and energy <br />efficiency. <br />GOAL 3 Policy 4.2: Develop transportation projects, <br />Link Transportation to Land Use. Develop a programs, and investment strategies <br />transportation system that accommodates the that are consistent with noise <br />adopted land use plan. minimization and water quality <br />objectives. <br />Policy 3.1.: Integrate land use and transportation <br />planning to ensure that the Policy 4.3: Identify, evaluate and adequately <br />transportation system supports the mitigate environmental and community <br />City's land use vision and that planned impacts of transportation <br />land use supports the preferred improvements and operational <br />transportation system. decisions. <br />Policy 3.2: Develop a Concurrency Management <br />Strategy for the city that facilitates the <br />full integration for the programming <br />and administration of transportation <br />improvements, services and programs <br />with implements the Comprehensive <br />Plan. <br />Policy 4.4: In order to meet requirements of <br />Federal air quality regulations, the Clean <br />Air Washington Act and other relevant <br />legislation, the City will work with the <br />PSRC, WSDOT, transit agencies, and <br />other jurisdictions in development of <br />transportation control measures and <br />other transportation and air quality <br />programs. <br />TRANSPORTATION ELEMENT 38 <br />