Ordinance 2021-94 - Laserfiche WebLink

EVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN TRANSPORTATION ELEMENT 2) Everett will invest in transportation improvements and programs that support the Comprehensive Plan and are within its current financial means. 3) Everett accepts the consequences of accommodating its fair share of regional growth, including unmitigated traffic congestion that remains after all affordable transportation investments are in place. Policies: Level-of-service Policies 4.a. Establish transportation system level-of-service standards to support desired changes in travel behavior and to encourage multi-modal system development. 4.b. Level-of-service standards shall reflect the existing and planned development patterns of the various sub-areas of the city. Concurrency Policies 4.c. Develop a Concurrency Management Strategy for the city that facilitates the full integration for the programming and administration of transportation improvements, services and programs with the Comprehensive Plan. 4.d. Assure that transportation system improvements are programmed to be available for use within six years of development permit approval if level-of-service is forecast to be exceeded within the sub-area of the permit. 4.e. The City of Everett will annually monitor and make adjustments as needed to the Transportation level-of-service standards and approach based on growth rates, comprehensive plan amendments, and financing for projects. Objective #4: Environmental and Community Impacts The transportation system affects the environment and the community in two ways: the impacts of travel and traffic from the system, and the impacts due to the construction of new transportation system facilities. The City expresses a concern for both categories of impacts in its Comprehensive Plan. This expression generally reinforces SEPA requirements that already exist. They are reiterated in the Compre- hensive Plan as policy to emphasize their relationship to the Preferred Plan. The Preferred Plan accommodates a substantial increase in population and jobs with a limited expansion of transportation system capacity. Improvements that are made are certain to affect an existing neighborhood, since the city is largely developed. For the transportation system investments in the Preferred Plan, the range of environmental concerns that will be expressed in policy include air quality, energy, noise, natural environment and community impacts. Air quality and energy are generally system-wide and regional in nature, while noise, the natural environment and community impacts are more localized and are emphasized in the Plan because of Everett's ability to affect them more directly through its policies. T-27