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Allocation of Transportation Resources and Monitoring Performance <br /> Everett's transportation investment strategy for the Preferred Plan provides travel options <br /> sufficient to accomplish the participation rates for mode-of-travel that are assumed in Table <br /> 4, page and assures that the system will not exceed the system level of service standard <br /> as shown in Table 5 , page . The implementation of planned transportation <br /> improvements and programs will accommodate growth in areas that are designated for <br /> growth in the Plan. Following Plan adoption, concurrency procedures will be applied to <br /> allocate committed transportation resources to planned projects and programs and to <br /> monitor progress toward mode-of-travel assumptions, level of service standards and <br /> adopted growth policies. Since level of service today is different(better)than it will be in <br /> the horizon year, the standard must be adjusted to reflect current short-term investment <br /> programs (the six-year transportation programs). Each year as the six-year program is <br /> reviewed, the level of service standard for that six-year period will be reaffirmed. <br /> Concurrency Management and SEPA <br /> Concurrency will not replace SEPA, but rather become an integral part of a comprehensive <br /> program that attaches private and public transportation improvement commitments to <br /> development decisions. Following Plan adoption, SEPA will focus primarily on site <br /> impacts that could result in additional transportation requirements in specific instances <br /> (particularly access to the site or impacts in the immediate vicinity that could not have been <br /> anticipated in the overall transportation investment strategy for the system). Concurrency <br /> conclusions in this Comprehensive Plan do not excuse projects from SEPA review. <br /> However, they do address major system infrastructure issues that must be properly <br /> administered under both SEPA and the Growth Management Act. <br /> Timing and Project Scheduling <br /> Concurrency is obtained when public investments and programs are in place or planned to <br /> be available at the time of development or within a reasonable period of time following <br /> permit approval(within 6 years). In order to establish this condition, projects and <br /> programs have to be scheduled over the 20-year time horizon in phases, with the first <br /> phase being the most specific and later phases more general. Under rapid growth <br /> conditions, where development permits produce growth that exceeds the average rate of <br /> increase toward the adopted 2012 growth assumptions, some delays or changes in the <br /> scheduling of commitments may have to occur. Annual revisions to the 6-year program <br /> may be required in order to make adjustments in the funding strategy or to focus <br /> transportation facility construction activities for planned projects into areas that are <br /> experiencing the most critical growth-related problems. Initially, however, as a planning <br /> assumption in the Preferred Plan, the concurrency program will assume a straight-line <br /> growth condition from the base year(1994)to the planning horizon year(2012). <br /> Project and program scheduling is conditioned by the availability of resources as well as the <br /> recognition that demand can be met by implementing low-cost demand management <br /> programs that substitute trip reduction for higher-cost capacity improvements. Scheduling <br /> of projects and programs may include programmed but unappropriated State or Federal <br /> money that could, if not received in a timely manner, alter the City's ability to achieve <br /> T-38 <br />