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EVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN 1 GLOSSARY The Capital Projects Subfund: This reserve fund compaction into containers or processed before being has four separate accounts that correspond to different hauled to the disposal site. funding sources and expenditure purposes: (I) Real Estate Excise Transfer Tax Account I; (2) Real Estate Transformer: An electromagnetic device for chang- Excise Transfer Tax Account II; (3) Unrestricted ing the voltage of alternating current electricity to the Account-Major Maintenance; and (4) Unrestricted level appropriate for the load served. Account-Other. The Capital Projects Subfund is used to fund both major maintenance and new development Transit Alignment: The path followed by a rail line capital projects. or bus way used for public transportation. The Revenue Stabilization Subfund (RSS): This Transit: A multiple-occupant vehicle operated on a reserve fund meets unforeseen declines in the City's for-hire, shared-ride basis, including bus, ferry, rail, revenues totaling more than two percent of projected shuttle bus, or vanpool. Public transportation; refer- revenues for six months. ring in this document to public bus, trolley, light rail, heavy rail, and commuter rail transport,but not ferries Through Traffic: Traffic traveling through a specific or van pools. area to a destination beyond. Transitional Housing: As defined by the Federal TIP: Transportation Improvement Program, includ- McKinney Act, transitional housing means a project: ing six-year road improvement program. (a)that is designed to provide housing and appropriate supportive services to homeless persons,including(but Townhouse: A form of ground-related housing where not limited to) de-institutionalized homeless individual dwelling units are attached along at least individuals with mental disabilities and other home- one common wall to at least one other dwelling unit. less individuals with mental disabilities, and homeless Each dwelling unit occupies space from the ground to families with children; and (b) that has as its purpose the roof and has direct access to private open space. facilitating the movement of homeless individuals to Also referred to as"single family attached" housing. independent living within 24 months, or within a longer period determined by HUD as necessary to Traffic Counts: Number of vehicles observed as they facilitate the transition. pass by a manual count station or recorded as they cross an automatic counting device on a street or Transmission: The movement or transfer of electric highway over a given time period. Intersection counts energy, water, natural gas, etc. in bulk from a source refer to the number of vehicles making each of the or sources of supply to other principal parts of the allowed movements through an intersection. Traffic system or to other utility systems. The act or process counts taken on "typical" weekdays of "typical" of transporting. months are part of the input data to which forecasted models are calibrated. Transportation Analysis Zones (TAZ): A TAZ is the basic building block of the analysis for transporta- Traffic Stream: The motor vehicle traffic flow on a tion modeling of vehicular trips. A zone is delineated street or road facility. by having similar uses that generate similar trip generation. Transfer of Development Rights(TDR): A program in which the unused portion of a "sending" property' s Transportation Control Measure (TCM): A trans- zoned capacity-one of the separable rights of property portation project, program, or action listed in the state - is sold to the developer of a "receiving" site, who is implementation plan (SIP)that will aid in elimination allowed to add the capacity to the zoned limit of that or reduction of the severity or number of violations of site. TDR's can be used to prevent the demolition of the national ambient air quality standards and help affordable housing units, especially in downtowns, or expeditiously attain and maintain those standards. to protect historically significant property or open space. Transportation Corridor: The area served and influenced by a given transportation facility. 111101 Transfer Stations: Facilities where solid waste is brought by contractors and self-haul customers for I G-22 I