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EVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN to planned projects and programs and to monitor progress toward mode -of -travel assumptions, level -of -service standards and adopted growth policies. Since level -of -service today is different (better) than it will be in the horizon year, the standard must be adjusted to reflect current short- term investment programs (the six-year transportation programs). Each year as the six-year program is reviewed, the level -of -service standard for that six-year period will be reaffirmed. 2. Concurrency Management and SEPA Concurrency will not replace SEPA, but rather become an integral part of a comprehensive program that attaches private and public transportation improvement commitments to development decisions. Following Plan adoption, SEPA will focus primarily on site impacts that could result in additional transportation requirements in specific instances (particularly access to the site or impacts in the immediate vicinity that could not have been anticipated in the overall transportation investment strategy for the system). Concurrency conclusions in this Comprehensive Plan do not excuse projects from SEPA review. However, they do address major system infrastructure issues that must be properly administered under both SEPA and the Growth Management Act. 3. Timing and Project Scheduling Concurrency is obtained when public investments and programs are in place or planned to be available at the time of development or within a reasonable period of time following permit approval (within 6 years). In order to establish this condition, projects and programs have to be scheduled over the long-term horizon of the Plan in phases, with the first phase being the most specific and later phases more general. Under rapid growth conditions, where development permits produce growth that exceeds the average rate of increase toward the adopted 2012 growth assumptions, some delays or changes in the scheduling of commitments may have to occur. Annual revisions to the 6 -year program may be required in order to make adjustments in the funding strategy or to focus transportation facility construction activities for planned projects into areas that are experiencing the most critical growth -related problems. Initially, however, as a planning assumption in the Plan, the concurrency program will assume a straight-line growth condition from the base year (2006) to the planning horizon year (2025). Project and program scheduling is conditioned by the availability of resources as well as the recognition that demand can be met by implementing low-cost demand management programs that substitute trip reduction for higher -cost capacity improvements. Scheduling of projects and programs may include programmed but unappropriated State or Federal money that could, if not received in a timely manner, alter the City's ability to achieve concurrency within a specific time period. However, the intent of the City's schedule, which includes assumptions about programmed State and Federal shares, is to establish a reasonably secure commitment to the improvement or program. Any money collected as mitigation to achieve concurrency will, in good faith, be assigned to the committed program. This improvement program will only assume the availability of funds that have been identified in its fiscal assumptions. These available funds form the basis for the determination that the City is capable of achieving concurrency during the planning period. Projects and programs that are identified in the investment program as wanted but unfunded may later be financed if new resources become available. However, these unfunded projects are not part of the long-range concurrency feasibility determination. Tables 4.1 through 4.3 list projects and programs for the Preferred Plan. TRANSPORTATION ELEMENT 67