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EVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN 1 GLOSSARY Organization (RTPO) for the four counties. PSRC Region: An area which in its largest sense generally manages the adopted regional growth strategy, Vision includes Snohomish, Kitsap, King, and Pierce Mal 11011 2020. Counties. It may also be limited to a smaller area. If so.this is generally noted in the context of the policy. Pump Station: A facility housing the equipment to pump water from or to a destination to counter Regional Development Strategy: The Regional gravitational forces. Pumping facilities are also Transportation Plan must contain an explicit statement i employed to increase the pressure of the water as it defining the regional development strategy, which is a travels through the system. generalized scheme of existing and proposed land use that serves as the basis for transportation planning. Pumping Stations: Used to convey sanitary, 'I wastewaters to locations which cannot be reached in a Regional Tax Base Sharing: Regional tax base normal downhill gravity collection system. sharing is a technique for redistributing local govern- ment revenues among jurisdictions in a metropolitan Purveyors: See Wholesale Water Districts. area. It generally involves placing a portion of the growth related tax revenues collected by each juris- Queue Bypass: Route designed to provide a path for diction into a pool, and then redistributing the pooled transit around queues, or waiting lines, in traffic--al- revenues among the jurisdictions according to a lowing transit to move to the head of traffic flow. formula that addresses fiscal imbalances or inequities among jurisdictions. Queue: A line, as of people or vehicles, waiting a111 turn. Regional Transportation Plan: The Transportation Plan for the regionally designated transportation Rail Banking: A practice of preserving abandoned system which is produced by the Regional Transporta- 111 rail rights-of-way and maintaining their integrity in tion Planning Organization. order to re-use them for transportation purposes in the future. The rail banking program is coordinated by Regional Transportation Planning OrganizationIt the Washington State Rail Development Commission. (RTPO): The voluntary organization conforming to RCW 47-80-020, consisting of local governments Railhead: After solid waste is compacted into within a region containing one or more counties which containers at transfer stations, trucks deliver the have common transportation interests. containers to a railhead facility where those containers II can be loaded onto trains for shipment to a landfill. Regional Transportation Project (RTP): This plan addresses transportation and mobility issues in the Real Estate Excise Transfer Tax (REET): A tax central Puget Sound region, encompassing King, levied on the sale of real property. The amount of the Pierce, and Snohomish Counties. The RTP proposes tax is determined as a percentage of the sales price. capital improvements and service changes that will The GMA authorized cities to impose a second 0.25 improve regional transit, increase transit speeds, 1 percent REET tax to be used to fund capital projects. service, and reliability, and encourage transit and high occupancy vehicle use by giving them priority on Receiving Waters: Natural water bodies - oceans, arterials and freeways. lakes, ponds, rivers, streams, etc. -and their manmade extensions - watercourses, canals, ditches, channels, Reserve Fund: Reserve funds are used to set aside etc. into which waste waters are discharged. funds to ensure financial stability and provide for unanticipated emergencies, expenses, revenue Recycling: Recycling involves separating a given decreases, and legal claims, and for major waste material from the waste stream and processing it maintenance of capital facilities. The level of reserves so that it may be used again as a raw material for is an important criterion for establishing a jurisdiction' products which may or may not be similar to the s credit rating for general obligation bond sales. original. Residential Curbside Program: A program run by REET: See Real Estate Excise Transfer tax. the Solid Waste Utility which facilitates the pickup of 41/1 recyclables from curbs of single-family homes. I G-18 I