Preserving and Protecting Freight Infrastructure and Routes (2012) / Chapter Skim
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These are all local government functions. As Figure 6-2 illustrates, zoning, site plan, and subdivision decisions are based on guidance from the municipality or county's comprehensive plan (also called a general plan or master plan in some places)
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Figure 6-2. Typical local government land-use system.
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Following the Motor Carrier Act of 1980, Congress clarified that states could not ban trucks that met approved weight and length standards from traveling on federally funded primary routes, with some limited exceptions. In 1990, Congress established uniform rules for the transportation of hazardous materials that include standards for labeling of hazardous materials.
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The legislature finds that Washington's marine container ports operate within a complex system of marine terminal operations, truck and train transportation corridors, and industrial services that together support a critical amount of our state and national economy, including key parts of our state's manufacturing and agricultural sectors, and directly create thousands of high-wage jobs throughout our region.
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These will often show land uses, current and future transportation corridors, urban design features, and geologic and other natural hazards. Often, aerial maps and other photographic elements will be placed within the comprehensive/ general plan sections.
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Freight task groups also may have developed maps that show critical bottlenecks and areas where freight facilities are close to environmental justice communities. For example, in the development of its Regional Freight Mobility Plan in 2007, the Atlanta Regional Commission had multiple freight stakeholders involved in the committees that provided technical and policy advice to the consultants developing the plan (Atlanta Regional Commission 2008a)
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MPO Planning MPOs are mandated by federal law for most metropolitan areas. An MPO is an organization that includes representatives from local government and governmental transportation authorities.
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Planning decisions made over the next decade will be critical to our future transportation system efficiencies and regional competitiveness. Local and regional freight planning in this context will require highly skilled freight transportation planners and new strategies and tools, community support, and legislative authority.
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In the context of freight transportation corridors, economic costs and benefits must be viewed on a large-scale perspective because freight transportation infrastructure is an important factor in the performance of the U.S. economy and a region's competitiveness on a global scale.
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Advanced planning allows local governments and private parties to better plan developments while more land is vacant, minimizing social, economic, and environmental impacts (Perfater 1989)
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