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How the TSP Is Used
The TSP is used for many different purposes. It provides guidance on how to design, build, operate, and maintain
Washington County’s transportation system. This system includes transportation facilities and services provided by
Washington County and facilities and services provided by other agencies such as transit facilities and services, multi-
use trails, and other facilities serving bicyclists and pedestrians, state highways, airports, and railroads. The TSP is used
in conjunction with other Comprehensive Plan documents, including the County’s Uniform Road Improvement Design
Standards, Community Development Code, and Community Plans (County Code Chapter 15). The TSP:

• Provides a framework for near term and long-term transportation-related decisions to enable the County to
reach adopted transportation goals and targets;

• Is used in the review of proposed land developments to determine the number of lanes and other design
characteristics for affected roads, including how bicycles and pedestrians will be accommodated;

• Identifies where right-of-way needs to be preserved to provide for new or improved roads to serve future growth;
• Is coordinated with other agencies, such as ODOT and local cities, to provide a seamless, integrated re-
gional system of transportation facilities and services; and
• Identifies the magnitude of future transportation needs so that long-term financing can be put into place to
pay for needed transportation system facilities, services, and maintenance.

Framework Documents
Policies and regulations at the state, regional, county, and local levels provide direction and establish legal require-
ments for transportation planning in Washington County. Coordination with multiple agencies is required so that Wash-
ington County’s TSP is consistent with the plans of other jurisdictions. Key regulations and documents which affect the
TSP are summarized below.

Oregon State Documents
Oregon Transportation Planning Rule (TPR)
Oregon Administrative Rule 660-012, referred to as the Transportation Planning Rule (TPR), implements Oregon State-
wide Planning Goal 12: Transportation. The purpose of the TPR is to ensure coordination of transportation and land use
planning in the development of agency transportation system plans, and in project development. The TPR is the legisla-
tive mandate that requires Washington County to prepare and update its TSP.

Oregon Transportation Plan
The Oregon Transportation Plan (OTP), the state’s long‐range policy document, guides transportation planning and
project development in Oregon. The OTP was originally adopted in 1992 and updated in 2006. As stated in the docu-
ment, the 2006 OTP “provides a framework to further these policy objectives with emphasis on maintaining the assets
in place, optimizing the existing system performance through technology and better system integration, [and] creating
sustainable funding and investing in strategic capacity enhancements.” The OTP is supported by modal plans that help
establish state transportation system investment priorities. These documents are summarized below.

• The Oregon Highway Plan (OHP) establishes visions, policies, and strategies for investing in state and
federal highways in Oregon. The OHP was last adopted in 1999. Since the adoption of the last Washington
County TSP in 2002, there have been two major amendments to the OHP that affect Washington County.

• The Oregon Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan, originally adopted in 1995 as a modal element of the OTP, is the
planning and design manual for pedestrian and bicycle transportation in Oregon and is used to implement
the actions recommended in the OTP. The technical section of the plan was updated in October 2010 and
re‐titled as the Bicycle and Pedestrian Design Guide to offer a greater level of guidance on the provision of
bicycle and pedestrian facilities. The Washington County Bicycle Facility Design Toolkit, completed in 2012,
incorporates these and other design guidelines.

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Effective November 27, 2015 • Updated December, 15 2016