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environmental mitigation requirements increased construction costs and higher standards 401 for design. Another factor that has affected the installation of new transportation infrastructure has been the tendency of residents in newer, partially developed, areas to oppose efforts to complete the circulation systems that are now incomplete. Combined with the shrinking , fmancial capability to provide improved transportation facilities, this resistance to new roadway capacity leaves Everett with fewer options to provide mobility choices to its residents. I At the same time that the ability and willingness to provide more roadway capacity is waning, the City and region continue to grow rapidly. In the next 20 years, another million 1 residents will live in the four-county central Puget Sound region; up to 25,000 more of them in the present City limits and over 40,000 more in Everett Planning Area. Travel on Everett's roadways, if it follows trends of the past, will increase at an even faster rate. Public attitudes opposing suburban sprawl have resulted in strong support for growth management laws that call for more compact forms of development. This new compact form is better served by a balanced mixture of travel modes, including more transit, ridesharing, walking and bicycling. This form is encouraged in the Growth Management Act and reflected in Everett's Preferred Plan. Everett has made an important choice about its future. That choice expresses a desire to see a more people-oriented City with better transit, easier pedestrian access and a shift away from street and land use designs that favor auto mobility alone. This broader, more 4111 balanced, vision of the future is translated into the transportation system investment strategy and policies in this Element of the Comprehensive Plan. The City has chosen to begin to change past trends in travel behavior, and the problems that it has presented, through new policies, programs and a supporting transportation investment strategy as outlined in this document. Key Transportation Issues I Concurrency. The concurrency requirement of the Growth Management Act calls for transportation improvements or programs put into place at the time that development is approved, or programmed to be in place within six years. The need for these improvements and programs is determined by whether the community's transportation level-of-service standard has been exceeded in the community. Everett's approach to this requirement is to agree to implement transportation improvements and programs that it can afford to finance. These improvements and , programs are based upon the Comprehensive Plan, which includes a level of service standard for the transportation system. Any residual impacts (such as increased congestion)that remain after affordable improvements and programs are put into place are accepted as an outcome of the Plan and reflected in the level of service standard. A Concurrency Management Program will be put into place following Plan adoption. Its T-2 �