Washington Administrative Code › Title 365 - Commerce, Department of (Community Development) › Chapter 365-196 - Growth Management Act-Procedural criteria for adopting comprehensive plans and development regulations › Part FOUR - FEATURES OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN › Section 365-196-430 - Transportation element

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
(1)
						Requirements. Each comprehensive plan shall include a transportation element
						that implements, and is consistent with, the land use element. The
						transportation element shall contain at least the following subelements:
(a) Land use assumptions used in estimating
						travel;
(b) Estimated traffic
						impacts to state-owned transportation facilities resulting from land use
						assumptions to assist the department of transportation in monitoring the
						performance of state facilities, to plan improvements for the facilities, and
						to assess the impact of land-use decisions on state-owned transportation
						facilities;
(c) Facilities and
						services needs, including:
(i) An inventory
						of air, water, and ground transportation facilities and services, including
						transit alignments and general aviation airports facilities, to define existing
						capital facilities and travel levels as a basis for future planning. This
						inventory must include state-owned transportation facilities within the
						county's or city's jurisdictional boundaries;
(ii) Level of service standards for all
						locally owned arte-rials and transit routes to serve as a gauge to judge
						performance of the system. These standards should be regionally
						coordinated;
(iii) For state-owned
						transportation facilities, level of service standards for highways, as
						prescribed in
						chapters
						47.06 and 47.80 RCW, to
						gauge the performance of the system. The purposes of reflecting level of
						service standards for state highways in the local comprehensive plan are to
						monitor the performance of the system, to evaluate improvement strategies, and
						to facilitate coordination between the county's or city's six-year street,
						road, or transit program and the department of transportation's ten-year
						investment program. The concurrency requirements of
						RCW
						 36.70A.070(6)(b) do not
						apply to transportation facilities and services of statewide significance
						except for counties consisting of islands whose only connection to the mainland
						are state highways or ferry routes. In these island counties, state highways
						and ferry route capacity must be a factor in meeting the concurrency
						requirements in
						RCW
						 36.70A.070(6)(b);
(iv) Specific actions and requirements for
						bringing into compliance locally owned transportation facilities or services
						that are below an established level of service standard;
(v) Forecasts of traffic for at least ten
						years based on the adopted land use plan to provide information on the
						location, timing, and capacity needs of future growth;
(vi) Identification of state and local system
						needs to meet current and future demands. Identified needs on state-owned
						transportation facilities must be consistent with the statewide multimodal
						transportation plan required under
						chapter
						47.06 RCW;
(d) Finance, including:
(i) An analysis of funding capability to
						judge needs against probable funding resources;
(ii) A multiyear financing plan based on the
						needs identified in the comprehensive plan, the appropriate parts of which
						shall serve as the basis for the six-year street, road, or transit program
						required by
						RCW
						 35.77.010 for cities,
						RCW
						 36.81.121 for counties, and
						RCW
						 35.58.2795 for public transportation systems.
						The multiyear financing plan should be coordinated with the ten-year
						improvement program developed by the department of transportation as required
						by RCW
						 47.05.030;
(iii) If probable funding falls short of
						meeting identified needs, a discussion of how additional funding will be
						raised, or how land use assumptions will be reassessed to ensure that level of
						service standards will be met;
(e) Intergovernmental coordination efforts,
						including an assessment of the impacts of the transportation plan and land use
						assumptions on the transportation systems of adjacent jurisdictions;
(f) Demand-management strategies;
(g) Pedestrian and bicycle component to
						include collaborative efforts to identify and designate planned improvements
						for pedestrian and bicycle facilities and corridors that address and encourage
						enhanced community access and promote healthy lifestyles;
(h) The transportation element, and the
						six-year plan required by
						RCW
						 35.77.010 for cities,
						RCW
						 36.81.121 for counties,
						RCW
						 35.58.2795 for public transportation systems,
						and the ten-year plan required by
						RCW
						 47.05.030 for the state, must be
						consistent.