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T A B L E O F c o n t e n t s T.1 Moscow Comprehensive Plan PREFACE: INTRODUCTION AND PURPOSE P.1 Purpose and Importance of this P.1 P.1.1 The Purpose of P.2 Property P.3 P.2.1 Purpose of Regulation and Land Use Decision P.2.2 Regulatory P.3 Planning P.4 P.3.1 Public Participation P.3.2 Plan Development and P.3.3 Monitoring and P.4 Plan P.7 P.4.1 Goals, Objectives, and Implementation CHAPTER 1: A VISION FOR MOSCOW 1.1 Community Values and Plan 1.1.1 Community 1.1.2 Plan Goals and 1.2 Community 1.2.1 Moscow’s 1.2.2 Moscow 1.10 1.2.3 Moscow in 1.3 Natural 1.3.1 Natural 1.15 1.3.2 Hazardous 1.18 1.3.3 Local Response to Changing Global Climate Conditions............1.20 1.4 Natural Resource Goals and 1.4.1 General Natural Resource Table of Contents C O M P R E H E N S I V E P L A N ---PAGE BREAK--- comPrehensive P L A N Table of Contents T.2 1.4.2 Natural 1.24 CHAPTER 2: COMMUNITY CHARACTER AND LAND USE 2.1 Existing Community 2.1.1 Agricultural and Resource 2.2 2.1.2 2.2 2.1.3 Commercial and 2.1.4 Governmental and 2.1.5 2.5 2.1.6 2.5 2.2 2.2.1 Housing Types and 2.6 2.2.2 Housing 2.8 2.2.3 Affordable 2.9 2.2.4 Home 2.10 2.3 Special Areas and 2.3.1 Historic 2.10 2.3.2 Urban Renewal 2.3.3 University of Idaho 2.4 2.4.1 Downtown 2.15 2.4.2 Downtown 2.17 2.5 Community 2.5.1 Entrances and 2.5.2 2.19 2.5.3 2.19 2.5.4 Scale, Density, and Building 2.20 2.5.5 Signage and 2.21 2.5.6 2.22 2.5.7 Neighborhood 2.6 Land 2.6.1 Existing Land 2.23 2.6.2 Future Land Use 2.25 2.6.3 Recommended Future Zoning and Land Use Regulation 2.30 2.7 Land Use and Community Character Goals and Objectives....2.30 2.7.1 General Land Use and Community Character ---PAGE BREAK--- T A B L E O F c o n t e n t s T.3 Moscow Comprehensive Plan 2.7.2 Existing Community 2.7.3 2.31 2.7.4 Special Areas and 2.7.5 2.32 2.7.6 Community 2.32 2.7.7 Land CHAPTER 3: COMMUNITY MOBILITY 3.1 3.2 Regional 3.2.1 3.2 3.2.2 Relationship to National and Regional 3.2 3.2.3 Air 3.2 3.2.4 Rail and Interstate Bus 3.3 3.2.5 Regional 3.3 3.3 Local 3.4 City 3.4.1 General Existing Conditions 3.4.2 Street 3.5 3.4.3 East-West 3.7 3.4.4 North-South 3.4.5 Thoroughfare 3.4.6 Proposed Alternate Highway Alignments 3.12 3.4.7 Local Street 3.13 3.4.8 Arterial and Collector Street Access Management 3.4.9 Traffic Control and 3.14 3.4.10 Corridor and Gateway 3.4.11 Public Art 3.4.12 Street 3.17 3.5 Pedestrian 3.5.1 3.17 3.5.2 Sidewalk and Crosswalk 3.18 3.5.3 Subdivision Design and Pedestrian 3.5.4 Accessibility for People with 3.6 Bicycle 3.6.1 3.20 3.6.2 Bike Lanes 3.20 ---PAGE BREAK--- comPrehensive P L A N Table of Contents T.4 3.6.3 Bike 3.21 3.6.4 Bicycle 3.6.5 Integrating Bicycling with 3.21 3.6.6 Other Bicycling Issues 3.22 3.7 Multi-Purpose 3.8 Transit and Transit-Supportive 3.8.1 3.22 3.8.2 Existing Routes and 3.22 3.8.3 Projected 3.23 3.8.4 Bus Shelters and Transit-Supportive 3.8.5 Extension of Transit 3.9 School Access and 3.9.1 3.24 3.9.2 Safety 3.10 3.10.1 3.25 3.10.2 Downtown 3.25 3.11 Community Mobility Goals and 3.11.1 General Community Mobility 3.11.2 Regional Mobility 3.11.3 City Street System 3.11.4 Pedestrian Mobility 3.28 3.11.5 Bicycle 3.11.6 Public 3.29 3.11.7 School Access and Student 3.30 3.11.8 Parking 3.30 CHAPTER 4: PARKS, RECREATION, AND OPEN SPACE 4.1 4.2 Parks and Recreation Master Plan 4.3 Local Context Park Classification 4.4 Park Classification 4.4.1 Pocket 4.4.2 Neighborhood 4.4.3 Community Parks ---PAGE BREAK--- T A B L E O F c o n t e n t s T.5 Moscow Comprehensive Plan 4.4.4 Linear Parks or 4.4 4.4.5 Special Use Parks and 4.5 4.4.6 Regional 4.4.7 Open 4.6 4.4.8 Semi-Public Park 4.5 Facility 4.6 Needs 4.6.1 Community 4.10 4.6.2 Current 4.11 4.6.3 Year 2030 4.12 4.7 Park Service Area 4.7.1 Pocket 4.7.2 Neighborhood/Linear 4.13 4.7.3 Community 4.7.4 Bicycle and Pedestrian 4.14 4.7.5 Future Areas of 4.14 4.8 4.8.1 Implementation Through 4.9 Implementation 4.9.1 Existing Park 4.9.2 Parkland Dedication and 4.17 4.10 Parks and Recreation Goals and 4.10.1 General Parks and Recreation 4.10.2 Pathways, Greenways, and Linear 4.10.3 Environmental, Conservation, Preservation and Sensitive Planning 4.18 4.10.4 Cultural 4.10.5 Convenience and Accessibility of Public Parks, Recreational Areas, and Public Open 4.19 4.10.6 Diversity and Availability of Recreational CHAPTER 5: PUBLIC UTILITIES, SERVICES, AND GROWTH CAPACITY 5.1 5.2 Regional 5.2.1 Population of Moscow and Latah County ---PAGE BREAK--- comPrehensive P L A N Table of Contents T.6 5.2.2 Regional Water and Sewer 5.3 Potable 5.3.1 5.3.2 Supply 5.3.3 Aquifer 5.5 5.3.4 5.3.5 5.3.6 5.3.7 Water 5.6 5.3.8 Pullman-Moscow Ground Water Management Plan (Palouse Basin Aquifer 5.7 5.3.9 Water Conservation 5.9 5.4 Sanitary 5.4.1 5.4.2 Wastewater Treatment Plant 5.11 5.4.3 5.12 5.5 Stormwater Conveyance and 5.5.1 5.5.2 Problematic 5.13 5.5.3 Development Patterns and 5.5.4 Detention, Retention, and 5.6 Public 5.6.1 Law 5.6.2 Fire Protection and Emergency Medical 5.6.3 911 5.16 5.7 Solid Waste and 5.7.1 Solid 5.17 5.7.2 Recycling 5.8 Capacity for 5.8.1 Available Land Versus Expected 5.8.2 Growth 5.19 5.8.3 Growth Staging 5.9. Public Utilities, Services, and Growth 5.9.1 General 5.9.2 Potable 5.21 5.9.3 Sanitary 5.9.4 Storm 5.9.5 Emergency 5.23 ---PAGE BREAK--- T A B L E O F c o n t e n t s T.7 Moscow Comprehensive Plan 5.9.6 Waste CHAPTER 6: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 6.1 6.2 Economic 6.2.1 The 6.1 6.2.2 Major Employers and 6.2 6.2.3 University of 6.3 6.2.4 Washington State 6.4 6.2.5 6.2.6 6.2.7 6.2.8 6.6 6.2.9 6.2.10 6.2.11 6.6 6.3 Other Economic 6.3.1 Labor 6.7 6.3.2 6.7 6.3.3 6.7 6.3.4 6.8 6.3.5 The “Creative 6.8 6.4 Community 6.4.1 6.5 Economic Development 6.5.1 6.5.2 Leveraging Existing 6.10 6.5.3 Growing Compatible Target 6.12 6.5.4 Zoning and Available 6.5.5 Strengthening 6.14 6.5.6 Business Development 6.15 6.6 Economic Development Goals and 6.6.1 General Economic Development 6.6.2 Leveraging Existing 6.18 6.6.3 Growing Compatible 6.6.4 Strengthening 6.19 6.6.5 Business Development 6.20 ---PAGE BREAK--- comPrehensive P L A N Table of Contents T.8 CHAPTER 7: IMPLEMENTATION 7.1 7.2 Responsibility for 7.2.1 7.3 Plan Implementation 7.3.1 Policy-Based 7.2 7.3.2 Land Development Regulations and Engineering Standards......7.2 7.3.3 Capital Improvements 7.2 7.3.4 Specific Plans and 7.3 7.3.5 Special Projects, Programs, and 7.4 Plan 7.4.1 7.3 7.4.2 Role 7.3 7.5 Plan Amendment 7.6 Evaluation and LIST OF MAPS Map 1.1 Steep Slopes and Floodplain 1.25 Map 2.1 .Existing Land Use 2.33 Map 2.2 Future Land Use and Growth 2.33 Map 3.1 Thoroughfare 3.31 Map 3.2 Accident-Prone 3.31 Map 3.3 Multi-Purpose 3.31 Map 3.4 Transit 3.31 Map 3.5 Safety 3.31 Map 4.1 Existing 4.20 Map 4.2 Pocket Park Service 4.20 Map 4.3 Neighborhood & Linear Park Service Areas...........after 4.20 Map 4.4 Community Park Service 4.20 Map 4.5 Pathway 4.20 Map 4.6 Areas of 4.20 Map 5.1 Potential Stormwater Constraint 5.24 Map 5.2 Growth 5.24 Map 5.3 Public Safety 5.24 Map 5.4 Potential Sewer Constraint 5.24 ---PAGE BREAK--- T A B L E O F c o n t e n t s T.9 Moscow Comprehensive Plan LIST OF FIGURES Figure P.1 Contributing City Figure 1.1 Moscow 1.1 Figure 1.2 Camas 1.9 Figure 1.3 .Historic 1.10 Figure 1.4 Present-Day Figure 1.5 Lionel Hampton Jazz Figure 1.6 Moscow Population Figure 1.7 Moscow’s 1.18 Figure 1.8 Map of Flood Hazard Figure 2.1 Regional Figure 2.2 Moscow Post Office and Courthouse (City Figure 2.3 Fort Russell Neighborhood Historic 2.11 Figure 2.4 Moscow Downtown Historic Figure 2.5 Friendship Figure 2.6 Evolution of Downtown 2.16 Figure 2.7 2.20 Figure 2.8 Comparison of R2 2.23 Figure 2.9 Urban 2.24 Figure 2.10 Auto-Urban 2.24 Figure 2.11 Urban Residential 2.27 Figure 2.12 Pattern Book 2.28 Figure 2.13 Suburban Commercial 2.29 Figure 3.1 Port of 3.3 Figure 3.2 Traffic 3.8 Figure 3.3 Signal 3.14 Figure 3.4 Corridor 3.15 Figure 3.5 Pedestrian Refuge 3.18 Figure 3.5 Accessible Figure 3.6 Transit 3.23 Figure 5.1 Growth of Moscow Relative to Latah 5.2 Figure 5.2 Hydrogeology of the Palouse Figure 5.3 Water 5.4 Figure 5.4 Clustering to Preserve Open Figure 5.5 Water 5.6 Figure 5.6 Water Action Figure 5.7 Moscow Water Production 5.8 Figure 5.8 Moscow Precipitation, 2004 - 5.9 Figure 5.9 Water Reclamation and Reuse Facility Diagram............5.11 Figure 5.10 Stormwater System 5.13 Figure 5.11 Density and Stormwater 5.14 Figure 5.12 ISO Fire Rating System Figure 5.13 Moscow Volunteer Fire Department Facilities...............5.17 ---PAGE BREAK--- comPrehensive P L A N Table of Contents T.10 Figure 6.1 Employment and Income - University and Medical 6.3 Figure 6.2 UI and WSU Figure 6.3 Economic Development 6.10 Figure 6.4 Lifelong LIST OF TABLES Table P.1 Plan Table 2.1 2015 City of Moscow Housing Unit 2.6 Table 3.1 Top Ten Collision Locations in Moscow (2007-2011).....3.15 Table 4.1 Pocket Table 4.2 Neighborhood Table 4.3 Community Table 4.4 Linear Parks and 4.5 Table 4.5 Special Use Parks and 4.5 Table 4.6 Regional Table 4.7 Open Table 4.8 Semi-Public Table 4.9 Park 4.9 Table 4.10 Existing Park Table 4.11 Future Park 4.12 Table 5.1 Individual Well 5.4 Table 5.2 Total Water Table 5.3 Land Demand 5.19 Table 5.4 Growth 5.20 Table 6.1 Major Employers in Moscow Table 6.2 Major Employers in the Region Table 6.3 Underemployment 6.7