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I primary purpose is to allocate available resources based on the timing and location of development, and to assess mitigation fees based upon each new development's share of the improvements that are planned in the Subarea within which it is located. Level-of- service measures the outcome of and progress toward the planned growth rate. Travel Behavior. Everett grew up in the automobile age, and travel for most purposes is dependent upon the use of an automobile. Travel behavior, of course, reflects this dependence. Any significant change to a more balanced mixture of travel modes will be slow to materialize. Travel behavior in Everett will continue to be dominated by the auto, even after changes in land use have occurred and new travel options have begun to be put into place. Change in travel behavior will be slow, even after the new convenient travel ' options become available. Everett 2000 establishes a new vision for the City. A vision with a transportation system ' that is more friendly to people on foot or bicycle. This is a long-term vision that will take shape over many years, not immediately. Travel behavior will be slow to adapt to the new vision. However, with a consistent and persistent approach to the creation of a more balanced system, this behavior will gradually change. In the interim period, Everett will experience certain ill-effects of present travel behavior patterns, such as higher levels of ' congestion. Everett's approach is to support a planning strategy that will shape travel behavior to match its vision, rather than have travel behavior shape the vision. The Transportation - Land Use Tie. More than any other factor, circulation facilities determine the shape of the City. The relationship between transportation and land use is two-way; each is dependent upon the other; one cannot succeed without the other. If a transportation investment strategy is devised to support a land use scheme, then the land use decisions must be carried out. If a land use scheme is devised that is supported by a transportation investment strategy, the strategy must be carried out. If they are planned ' together, they must be implemented together. Everett's Plan establishes an inseparable tie between land use and the transportation by first ' deciding in the Comprehensive Plan upon an integrated land use scheme with a transportation investment strategy, and then in enacting implementation regulations and proposing improvements for carrying it out. Necessary policy trade-offs were made 111 comprehensively in the Plan, before adoption. Amendments to the Comprehensive Plan must similarly be comprehensive and not separated into Transportation Element amendments and Land Use Element amendments. Because of the interdependence of ' transportation and land use, only one decision is possible. The Regional Responsibilities of Growth. Nearly 3/4 of the City's residents work elsewhere and it has half of all the jobs and a significant share of the retail and service business in Snohomish County. Many workers and shoppers visit daily, pushing the daytime population to well over 200,000. More than 100,000 other people travel through Everett to and from destinations on either side of the City's planning area. In the future, growth boundaries established pursuant to the Growth Management Act, will squeeze more 1 ' T-3