11.70.080 Level of Service Standards.
A. Level of service standards shall be adopted in the Comprehensive Plan.
B. Level of service standards shall be reviewed periodically by the City Council upon recommendation of the Planning Commission, as follows:
1. Not less than biennially, the Director shall make a report to the Planning Commission on the existing level of service on Concurrency Corridors.
a. The report shall account for previously approved trips and those reserved by development agreement, planned and funded capital improvement projects and other factors the Director finds relevant to the review of level of service standards; and
b. The report shall include a recommendation on concurrency corridor levels of service based on information contained in the report.
c. The report shall include the policy response memorandum developed pursuant to 11.95.090(D) for each Category 3 Corridor.
2. The Planning Commission shall consider the Director’s report and recommendation through the comprehensive plan amendment process and may make a recommendation to the City Council.
C. The procedures for review of level of service standards set forth in Subsection B above shall be followed in designating a corridor built to ultimate capacity. The following additional criteria and procedures shall also apply when the Director recommends designation of a corridor built to ultimate capacity.
1. Upon a finding that construction to expand peak hour motor vehicle capacity on a concurrency corridor would build the corridor’s transportation facilities in excess of the requirements of adopted city roadway construction standards consistent with the Comprehensive Plan, the Director may recommend to the Planning Commission to designate that corridor as a Concurrency Corridor Built to Ultimate Capacity.
a. Any Category of Concurrency Corridor in which the transportation facilities meet the requirements of adopted city roadway construction standards consistent with the Comprehensive Plan may be designated a Concurrency Corridor Built to Ultimate Capacity. Concurrency Corridors are not required to proceed sequentially from Category 1 through Category 3 before being considered for Category 4 designation.
2. The City Council may by ordinance designate a concurrency corridor as a Concurrency Corridor Built to Ultimate Capacity upon making findings that:
a. The corridor’s transportation facilities are built to adopted city roadway construction standards consistent with the comprehensive plan; and
b. The designation as a Concurrency Corridor Built to Ultimate Capacity will support specific growth management and comprehensive plan objectives.
3. Upon with the designation of a concurrency corridor as a Concurrency Corridor Built to Ultimate Capacity, the City Council shall also adopt by ordinance a Corridor Management Plan that addresses, at a minimum, access management, demand management, and multimodal mobility standards for the corridor.
a. The Corridor Management Plan shall identify strategies, programs and standards to evaluate and manage transportation concurrency on Category 4 Corridors. The strategies may include voluntary payments in lieu pursuant to VMC 11.95.060.C. (Ord. M-4026 §15, 2012; Ord. M-4001 §2, 2011)