Volume 2: Draft Gorst Planned Action Environmental Impact Statement

GORST PLANNED ACTION EIS | AFFECTED ENVIRONMENT, SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS, AND MITIGATION MEASURESstandards. Under GMA, transportation improvements needed to maintain concurrency must be in place within sixyears of the time that the need for those improvements is triggered by new development.The purposes of concurrency management are summarized below.• Provide adequate levels of service on transportation facilities for existing uses, as well as new development inthe Gorst UGA.• Provide adequate transportation facilities that achieve and maintain County LOS standards as provided in theGorst Sub Area plan.• Ensure that County LOS standards are maintained as new development occurs, as mandated by theconcurrency requirements of the GMA.The Kitsap County Concurrency Ordinance, codified in KCC Chapter 20.04, establishes a process for testing whethera development project meets concurrency. As established by the ordinance, concurrency is satisfied if no morethan 15 percent of county road lane-miles exceed LOS standards.By adopting an area-wide standard, the County acknowledges the fact that not every roadway facility or link in thenetwork will meet the adopted facility LOS standards all the time. Measures of area-wide concurrency areconducted periodically, such as during updates of the comprehensive plan, for sub-area planning, and whencorridor studies are conducted.The 15 percent allowance relates to individual development proposals undergoing a concurrency test. If LOS isequal to or better than the adopted standard, the concurrency test is passed, and an applicant is issued a CapacityReservation Certificate. For purposes of concurrency determination, the analysis of LOS adequacy would only beapplied to County arterials and collectors in rural areas and urban areas under the County’s jurisdiction. ACertificate of Concurrency is not issued to any proposed development if the standards in this section are notachieved and maintained within the 6-year period allowed by GMA for transportation concurrency. The applicanthas the option of accepting the denial of application; appealing the denial of application; or accepting a 90-dayreservation period and, within this time, revising the development proposal to bring transportation withinconcurrency requirements.The ordinance allows for the concurrency test to be applied on either a countywide or sub-area level, but does notdefine methods for defining the area of impact at the sub-area level. Consequently, the concurrency test iscurrently only applied at the countywide level.City of Bremerton - Over the longer term, the GMA requires that the level of transportation investment must keeppace with growth in traffic volumes so that the LOS thresholds established in the transportation element aremaintained.The LOS standards establish the maximum threshold of congestion on each facility. This relates to the concurrencydefinition in the GMA that requires adequate public facilities (operating better than the LOS standard) to beavailable when the impacts of development occur. “Concurrent with development” as applied to transportationmeans that “improvements or strategies are in place at the time of development, or that financial commitment isin place to complete the improvements or strategies within six years.” Therefore, any development within the Cityof Bremerton or County that would cause a LOS standard to be exceeded could not be approved unless thefinancial commitment to improve the deficiency was in place within the required six-year timeframe. LOS wouldneed to be monitored annually to ensure that the LOS standards established would not be exceeded.The City of Bremerton also has a Transportation Development Code (BMC Chapter 11.12). The purpose of theTransportation Development Code is to implement the transportation element of the City of BremertonComprehensive Plan, and to provide an orderly process for the adoption, implementation, interpretation andmodification of City of Bremerton transportation system development standards. (Chapter 11.12.020) TheTransportation Development Code gives the City of Bremerton Engineer the authority to request traffic impactDraft | June 2013 3-158