Participate and coordinate Airway Heights objectives with inter-jurisdictional and regional planning for commercial air travel and air freight services.

Coordinate all long-range community planning objectives with Fairchild Air Force Base (FAFB), minimizing or eliminating operational or land use conflicts.

Maintain infrastructure and personnel at levels that provide Airway Heights residents   with services that are high-quality, effective, and affordable.

On a regular basis, review and update the Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) and all related plans incorporating factors including:

• Population growth.

• Demographic trends.

• Building permit trends.

• Regional facility improvements and projections.

• Capital funding sources, including the transportation benefit district and traffic impact fees.

Support and cooperate with other agencies and providers of public services to maintain identified Levels of Service (LOS).

Strategy:

• Collaborate with adjacent jurisdictions and the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) to maintain performance and Level of Service (LOS) standards for intersections and roadways. Work to ensure that the LOS needs of these agencies are met for large development projects, including providing potential mitigation for transportation impacts.

Plan new development to ensure provision of public services at current Levels of Service (LOS) or the LOS identified in City-adopted Master Plans.

Strategy:

• Require development projects to demonstrate transportation concurrency by applying the City’s traffic impact analysis standards and process.

• Require development projects to meet the water concurrency requirements as set forth in the Airway Heights Municipal Code (AHMC) chapter 14.

• Enforce Multimodal Level of Service (LOS) goals for private development, incentivizing compliance by offering reductions in the City traffic impact fee for meeting these standards. (See Transportation Section for multimodal LOS standards/definition.)

Promote the use of geographic information systems (GIS) as a means of improving the provision of city services, including:

• Enhancing planning and decision-making through GIS databases.

• Optimizing service delivery efficiency using GIS.

• Enhancing outreach engagement by creating interactive maps and dashboards that enable residents to access city services and provide feedback.

Plan and locate private and public utilities consistent with best management practices.

Provide timely, professional, and efficient processing of building permits, development review, and municipal code administration.

Sustain and enhance the City’s fiscal stability through good capital planning and use of a wide array of financial tools to fund infrastructure needs.

Work towards compliance with accessibility requirements in accordance with Americans with Disability Act (ADA).

Guide annexation decisions by and considering:

• Master plans for water, sewer, transportation, parks, and emergency services.

• Provision of necessary rights-of-way and easements.

• Studies that evaluate environmental and public service factors.

• Timing that supports orderly development and/or coordinated extension of public services.

• Comprehensive Plan goals and policies.