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EVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN I GLOSSARY environment, excellent local transit services and Urban Minor Arterial: Urban minor arterials inter- access to regional systems. The core areas typically connect and augment the urban principal arterial 111111 include residential and commercial activities and system. They serve moderate length trip desires at a recognize and reinforce existing unique neighborhood somewhat lower mobility than principal arterials, and center character. Some of the urban activity centers distribute traffic to smaller geographic areas than are areas with existing high employment concentration principal arterials. They should not penetrate identifi- and excellent accessibility. These areas promote non- able neighborhoods. SOV mobility, reduce sprawl, and maximize benefits of existing public investment. Uses in Common: Joint and exclusive use of property by the specific group of property owners Urban Centers: Centers with a concentrated mix of employment and housing outside of the downtown Vanpool A high capacity transit method that utilizes core. Urban Centers provide excellent regional and small vans to carry passengers to a common destina- local transportation access and have mixed use core tion. Transit operators often supply vans to private areas defined by a comfortable walk distance. Urban drivers who fill the role of a bus driver. Centers encourage job growth and residential growth which are closely associated with each other. Vehicle Capacity: The number of motor vehicles a highway or road is designed to carry over a given Urban Collector: Urban roadway which provides period of time at a given level-of-service. both land access and traffic circulation within residen- tial neighborhoods, commercial and industrial areas. Vehicle Hours of Delay (VHD): The time lost to They may penetrate residential neighborhoods, collect travelers in cars, buses and trucks due to congestion, traffic from local streets and channel it to arterial, and and measured by the difference between travel time may include the majority of CBD street grid. They are under congested versus uncongested conditions. Sixty the lowest urban class of road eligible for federal cars faking two minutes to travel a congested roadway, funding. which could be traveled in only one minute at the speed limit,would collectively experience sixty vehicleet Urban Growth Areas (UGA): Areas where urban minutes,or one vehicle hour of delay. growth will be encouraged. Counties and cities cooperatively establish the urban growth areas and Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT): A measurement of cities must be located inside urban growth areas. Once forecasting travel demand; equivalent to one car, bus, I the Urban Growth Boundaries (UGB) are established, or truck traveling one mile. VMT is the sum of an cities cannot annex land outside the urban growth individual's vehicle trip lengths--in miles—made over a area. Growth outside of urban growth areas must be set period, divided by the number of affected rural in nature. individuals driving that period within the household, i study area,zone,or facility. Urban Large-Area Principal Arterials: These arterials provide service to traffic passing through Vested Rights: The act of authorizing completion ofII areas, rural oriented traffic, and major traffic move- a development project pursuant to prior rules or Tegu- ments in larger urbanized areas. They serve major lations. Determinations of vested rights are normally activity centers, highest traffic volume corridors, and made on a case-by-case basis by the city or county, cross-town trip desires. They are stratified into three relying on statutes and case law of the state of types of roads - interstate highways, other freeways Washington. and expressways, and other principal arterials. Land access on principal arterials should be purely coinci- VHD: See Vehicle Hours of Delay. dental. Vision 2020: PSRC's 1990 adopted regional compre- Urban Local Arterial: Urban roadway which hensive vision which describes linking high density provides direct access to abutting land use and provide residential and employment centers throughout the access to high order parts of the system. Service to region by high capacity transit, and promoting a multi- through-traffic is discouraged. modal transportation system. ill VMT: See Vehicle Miles Traveled. I G-24 I