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A RESOLUTION authorizing the City to join as a participating
agency in the grant application of Jefferson Transit Authority for
Public Transportation Systems Account fund assistance for property
acquisition and construction for a park-ride lot and necessary
intersection and connecting roadway improvements in the vicinity
of Haines Place, 12th Street and Sims Way-SR20 in Port
Townsend.
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the City Council has recognized for several years the need for a park-ride facility
to help alleviate parking shortages and traffic congestion in the downtown historic
district; and
traffic and parking congestion continues to increase as commercial and residential
development, as well as tourism, increases traffic demands each year; and
the proposed Heavy Haulout Facility, which has recently received funding
assistance, and ancillary marine trade activity expansions at the Port of Port
Townsend Boat Haven are expected to significantly increase vehicular traffic at
the Haines Place-SR20/Sims Way intersection; and
planning for a park-ride facility began in 1990 with the Downtown Parking
Improvement Plan adopted by the City Council in Resolution 90-04; and
the Port Townsend Urban Waterfront Plan, adopted by the City Council in 1990,
also recognized the need for a park-ride facility and transportation demand
management strategies to alleviate downtown traffic and parking congestion,
including a transit shuttle connecting the downtown with outlying parking, as well
as a traffic signal at Haines Place to improve vehicular and pedestrian access to
the Boat Haven area; and
the Washington State Department of Transportation Marine Division in its draft
Parking Management Plan for Port Townsend and Keystone Terminals (February,
1992) documents the lack of parking available in Port Townsend for walk-on ferry
passengers, projects a doubling of walk-on passenger ridership every 5.75 years,
and recommends a park-ride facility with shuttle transit service at the same
location proposed in the subject grant application proposal; and
in the Port Townsend 2020: Getting Together report (June 1993) participating
citizens expressed concerns about mounting traffic congestion and hazards, and
several groups mentioned the need for a traffic signal at Haines Place (Safeway)
and suggested a park-ride lot outside of downtown; and
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in 1988, the City of Port Townsend, in conjunction with the Washington State
Department of Transportation, the Port Townsend Chamber of Commerce,
Jefferson Transit and the Jefferson Coun~ Economic Development Council,
undertook the Port Townsend Gateway Project to plan for the future
redevelopment of the Sims Way/SR20 corridor; and
the City Council adopted in August, 1993, the Port Townsend Gateway plan which
provides specific direction for traffic safety, economic development and aesthetic
improvements in the SR20/Sims Way corridor, including as a high priority the
specific improvements proposed in the subject project; and
the Gateway Plan was previously adopted as the Route Development Plan for the
Sims Way/SR20 corridor by the Washington State Department of Transportation
and the Peninsula Regional Transportation Planning Organization; and
Jefferson Transit Authority is one of only five transit authorities in the state which
is eligible to apPly for a Public Transportation Systems Account Grant; and
the Haines Place Park-Ride Project is eligible for assistance from the Public
Transportation Systems Account; and
Jefferson Transit Authority has asked the City to join in the grant application as
a participating agency; Now, Therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Port Townsend that the Mayor is hereby
authorized to join on behalf of the City as a participating agency in the application of Jefferson
Transit Authority for a Public Transportation Systems Account Grant for assistance in property
acquisition and construction of a park-ride facility and associated intersection and connecting
roadway improvements in the vicinity of Haines Place, Sims Way/SR20, 12th Street and Landes
Street in Port Townsend; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Mayor is also authorized to represent in the
aforementioned application that the City intends to contribute $75,000, which is likely to be
procurred through issuance of councilmanic bonds, and $113,200 in in-kind assistance to the
project; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that final approval of the project and specific participation by the
City will be withheld until sufficient grant and local funding is assured and the requirements of
the Washington State Environmental Policy Act have been satisfied.
Resolution
Adopted by the City Co~e City of Port Townsend in regular session assembled this
~5~ dayof ~993.
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ATTEST:
David A. Grove, Clerk-Treasurer
Approved as to form:
Dennis McLerran, City Attorney
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