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EVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN Transportation Facility Design 2.18. Design of transportation facilities shall be consistent with the other pertinent policies of the City's Comprehensive Growth Management Plan, with strong emphasis on making such transportation facilities and the travel experience as safe and enjoyable as possible, while minimizing the long-term maintenance costs.. 2.19. Transportation facilities in the city shall be planned, designed, and constructed to be barrier -free and easily accessible to disabled persons consistent with the requirements of the Americans With Disabilities Act. 2.20. Establish and adopt design standards to ensure that the implementation of bicycle and pedestrian system projects are coordinated and consistent in design and construction with other transportation system improvements. Access Management on Arterials 2.21. Work cooperatively with the Washington State Department of Transportation to develop access management agreements for State routes within the city. 2.22. Require that connections to arterials from new subdivisions be designed with adequate spacing to provide for local access to the arterials, while minimizing conflicts with through traffic. 2.23 Promote access management to maintain arterial capacity by reducing the number of curb cuts, increasing driveway spacing and providing for median treatment where appropriate. 2.24. Provide good access to regional arterials and highways for commercial traffic to and from manufacturing and industrial sites. Other 2.25. Develop supporting capital infra -structure to provide multi -modal connections between and among local and regional transportation services. Obiective #3: Develop System Performance Standards (Level -of -Service). Establish a standard of performance for the transportation system that is consistent with both the short and long-term land use vision of the City and recognizes that congested conditions will remain after affordable improvements are put into place. Level -of -service is aimed not only at achieving an integration of the various modes of transportation, but also at establishing appropriate and desired levels for the use of transit, ridesharing and non -motorized modes of travel in future years. These levels are based on policies intended to re -shape the city's form and circulation environment in a way that will achieve a vision of what the city wishes to become in 2025 and beyond. As a result, these levels exceed current and forecast participation rates and may result in an overall increase in vehicular congestion. The assumed levels for the use of transit, rideshare, non -motorized use, as well as trip elimination, are based on potential demand, capacity and effectiveness of the service, and not on historic use patterns for these modes and programs. The level -of -service measurement, therefore, is governed by mode -of -travel assumptions that Everett TRANSPORTATION ELEMENT 38