1. Circulation. Public agencies and developments should provide circulation facilities including roads, streets, alleys, pedestrian, bicycle, and public transportation facilities, consistent with federal, state, or local standards and sufficient to meet adopted levels of service.

2. Essential Public Facilities. Comprehensive plans, which include SMPs, may not preclude the siting of essential public facilities, which include state or regional transportation facilities as defined in RCW 47.06.140.

3. Minimize Land Consumption. When transportation facilities must be located along shorelines, efforts should be made to minimize the amount of land consumed. Where feasible, such transportation facilities should be sufficiently set back so that a usable shoreline area remains. Where feasible, roads and trails should not run parallel to shorelines.

4. Erosion and Ground Water. Roads in shoreline areas should be designed and maintained to prevent erosion and to permit a natural movement of ground water.

5. Protect Shorelands. All construction should be designed to protect the adjacent shorelands from erosion, uncontrolled drainage, slides, pollution, and other factors detrimental to the environment. Transportation facilities and parking facilities should be planned, located, and designed where routes will have the least possible adverse effect on unique or fragile shoreline features, will not result in a net loss of shoreline ecological functions or adversely impact existing or planned water-dependent uses.

6. General Maintenance and Reconstruction. Road maintenance and reconstruction should be allowed in accordance with best management practices adopted by the town and the Washington State Department of Transportation.

7. Trails. Multi-purpose trails should be encouraged in shoreline jurisdiction consistent with public access policies and regulations in SPMC 15.14.310.

8. Appropriate Bridges and Culverts. Road design for stream crossings should consider appropriate bridge and culvert designs based on federal, state, or local standards, for example, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife’s 2013 Water Crossing Design Guidelines.

9. Coordinate Land Use and Transportation. Because land use and transportation facilities are so highly interrelated, the plans for each should be closely coordinated and consider shoreline goals, objectives, policies, and standards.

10. Parking. Parking facilities in shorelines are not a preferred use and should be allowed only as necessary to support an authorized use. Parking facilities should be located as far inland as possible from the OHWM.

1. Roads and Railroads Limited in Shoreline Jurisdiction. Where other options are available and feasible, new roads, road expansions or railroads shall not be built within shoreline jurisdiction.

2. Criteria if Roads or Railroads Are Unavoidable. When roads or road expansions are unavoidable in the shoreline jurisdiction, proposed transportation facilities shall be planned, located, and designed to achieve the following:

3. Shoreline Crossings. Shoreline crossings and culverts shall be designed to minimize impact to riparian and aquatic habitat and shall allow for fish passage. Crossings shall occur as near to perpendicular with the waterbody as possible, unless an alternate path would minimize disturbance of native vegetation or result in avoidance of other critical areas such as wetlands.

4. Floodway. See SPMC 15.14.300.

5. Construction Standards. Construction standards of the appropriate governmental agency, together with SMP standards, shall be conditions for granting shoreline permits. Seasonal work windows may be required based on federal or state requirements, or if the proposal involves crossing shorelines or altering the waterbody.

6. Trails. See public access standards in SPMC 15.14.310.

7. Parking Facilities. Parking facilities in shorelines are not a preferred use and shall be allowed only as necessary to support an authorized use. Parking that does not require a shoreline location in order to carry out its functions shall: