Snohomish County transit agencies seeking comments on planning docs
EVERETT — Community Transit and Everett Transit are looking for feedback from Snohomish County residents on two planning documents currently in the works.
State law requires transit agencies to update certain planning documents regularly. Community Transit is currently working in the final stages of its transit development plan, a shorter-term document put in place to help implement the goals of an agency’s long-range plans, which prepare for decades into the future. Everett Transit is resuming work on its long-range plan after a pause to allow the city to approve its comprehensive plan periodic update.
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To help support that growth, the agency expects a need for voters to approve a sales tax increase to allow for service expansion. It first recommended a 0.3% sales tax increase as part of its last long-range plan in 2018, and will maintain that recommendation in the latest plan, an Everett Transit website reads. The current plan assumes an increase from the current rate of 0.6% to 0.9% in 2030, contingent on City Council and voter approval.
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Community Transit’s board of directors will hear public comment Thursday on its latest five-year transit development plan, which lays out a path toward future service expansion and fleet electrification. The agency completed a draft version of the plan, which is available for review online.
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