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timeframe as the new growth is approved. While the City budgetary process does not have the legal or practical flexibility to radically rearrange the allocation of City resources, it does allow for the identification of transportation resources and the alignment of those resources to fund planned/ affordable facilities that clearly support the Comprehensive Plan. The precise timing of the facilities may depend upon the availability of state and federal support, the collection of an appropriate private share from new developments and the environmental process for physically placing a new facility on the ground. The details of the financial program will be established during the development of the City's regulatory/implementation program following adoption of this Comprehensive Plan. Subsequent environmental review may be needed to cover the regulatory mechanisms as a means of discussing the effects of implementing each program and setting the fee schedule for new development. At the Comprehensive Plan review stage, only the process and order-of-magnitude commitments will be identified, with some assurance/commitment that it is generally both feasible and affordable. The adoption of this Comprehensive Plan and the Transportation Element will represent a policy commitment by the City to pursue the intent of the financial assumption in this Plan. The details of that commitment will be the subject of post-Comprehensive Plan adoption actions by the City and may result in amendments to the initial commitments made in the Plan. Based on the assumptions and analysis provided in the DEIS, the City is expected to be able to finance only the investments shown in Table 3 as complete prior to 2012. However, this presumption of capability assumes the continued assistance of senior governments, the imposition of new taxes if identified for an alternative (such as the Regional Transit Authority Tax), and expected use of development fees or charges (presently estimated to be similar to rates used during the 5 year period 1987-1991). Residual or unmitigated transportation system problems remain after all proposed improvements have been put into place and all travel behavior reductions have been realized from increased participation in other modes of travel. The recognition and agreement to accept the continued existence of these problems represents a tolerance for congestion. In effect, the community recognizes that it does not have the resources to arrest all transportation problems, that it wishes to accommodate its share of future growth, and that it has applied all reasonable means of reducing or modifying travel demand. The remaining problems, in reality, may not completely materialize as forecast since existing methods and assumptions are not always effective in predicting behavioral changes in travel. However, these technically-derived results are assumed for the Preferred Plan. Since they indicate the existence of potential transportation system problems, these problems must be recognized in the Transportation Element. They are treated as unmitigated,"accepted", problems even if they do not completely materialize as forecast. The Preferred Plan proposes a balanced investment among modes of travel; increasing the commitment to travel by transit, ridesharing and pedestrians and consequently creating, through a shift in financial resources, an additional shortage of vehicular capacity. This strategy may create somewhat higher levels of roadway congestion in specific areas, but provides more travel options for those who choose to use other modes of travel. Implicit in T-25