Volume 2: Draft Gorst Planned Action Environmental Impact Statement

GORST PLANNED ACTION EIS | AFFECTED ENVIRONMENT, SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS, AND MITIGATION MEASURES• Ability to serve other travel modes, including buses, bicycles, pedestrians, and equestrians.• Reasonable spacing, depending on population density.• Directness of travel and distance between points of economic importance.• Connection of population centers.Both the County and the City of Bremerton use the Federal Functional Classification (FFC) system fortransportation systems planning, financial planning and administrations, and developing design criteria andstandards for County and private sector roadway improvements.• Transportation Systems Planning. Functional classification is a tool for building a transportation system thatserves all types of travel needs. It helps in setting priorities and making evaluations for improvement projects.It helps jurisdictions to coordinate their approaches to the transportation system, and it affects land useplanning and zoning decisions.• Financial Planning and Administration. The classification system also helps in the allocation of funds fortransportation system improvements and maintenance like Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century(MAP-21), Surface Transportation Program (STP) [Urban and Rural], and the Washington State Urban ArterialBoard (UAB) fund, are reserved for specific types of facilities. WSDOT distributes Federal Aid highway funds tocities and counties in the state. The classification system is used to determine which roads are eligible forcertain state and federal funds.• Design Issues. The County has developed an extensive set of road design standards by functional classification.These standards guide the design of improvements for individual County roads. They also are used in thereview of land development proposals to determine infrastructure requirements (e.g., right-of way, pavement,and sidewalk requirements) for both on- and offsite roads. The standards, used with the functionalclassification system, are especially useful for longer-range planning, helping to make sure that enough land isset aside for roadways in developing areas.Table 3.11-1 Federal Functional Classifications explains the various federal functional classifications of roadwayswithin the Gorst UGA. The table describes the primary access and mobility functions for each major classification.Each classification is also further designated as “Urban” or “Rural”.FunctionalClassificationFreewayPrincipal ArterialMinor ArterialTable 3.11-1Federal Functional ClassificationsDescriptionA freeway is a multilane, high-speed, high-capacity roadway intended exclusively formotorized traffic. All access is controlled by interchanges and road crossings are gradeseparated.The freeways in the Gorst UGA are under the jurisdiction of WSDOT.Principal arterials primarily serve a mobility function, and typically have either full or semicontrolledaccess. Principal arterials provide for movement between urban and rural intracountypopulation centers. As such, this roadway facility classification predominantly serves"through" traffic with minimum direct service to abutting land uses. Principal arterialsprovide routes for public transit systems between major communities within the county.Minor arterials provide access to the principal arterial and freeway systems. They provide alower level of travel mobility than principal arterials to major communities within thecounty. They provide primary access to or through communities of high-density residential,commercial or retail, or industrial land areas. They provide access to abutting properties atpredetermined locations. Trip lengths on minor arterials generally exceed 5 miles. Minorarterials provide routes for public transit systems between major communities within thecounty.Draft | June 2013 3-153