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The teclmiques must be implemented through a partnership of the City, the state and region, and employers to encourage travelers to change their behavior through incentives, enhanced services and high occupancy facilities. The greatest motivations for this behavior change are the opportunities for individual travelers to save time or money. Employers can provide subsidized transit passes, staggered work hours to accommodate carpools and allow travel outside of peak hours. The state and region will provide improved transit services and facilities such as high occupancy vehicle lanes for buses and carpools on principal arterials, metered freeways and meter bypasses to allow faster travel times for those who choose not to travel alone. Meters have been installed on both I-35W and TH 36. Regional plans show construction of a high occupancy vehicle lane on TH 36 by 2010. The City should work with Mn/DOT and the Metropolitan Council to insure this implementation. The City can provide improved bicycle and pedestrian facilities between residential areas, work sites and transit facilities, and can put in place land use controls that encourage development that is "transit and pedestrian friendly." In some cities served by congested highways, such as Minnetonka, conditional zoning ties permitted land uses to the amount of trips that are generated by a parcel. As a part of its review and approval process for land development proposals, the City requires a traffic analysis to be prepared by a traffic engineer to assess potential traffic impacts on roadway. If impacts on service levels of roadways and intersections are anticipated, the City will only approve the project contingent upon a traffic management plan that adequately mitigates those impacts. The plan may include travel demand management strategies, use of transit facilities, or other appropriate measures to reduce traffic generation, and necessary improvements to the road systems. The developer shall have the responsibility to install all necessary road system improvements. Roseville may not require such a severe measure, since much of the traffic on TH 36 and I-35W is external. merely passing through the City, and thus is unlikely to be affected by Roseville's land use. However, when reviewing proposed developments for vacant parcels, the City should take into account trip generation volumes produced by different types of land use, as shown in Figure Trans- 11, and their potential impacts on transportation facilities, as well Roseville Comprehensive Plan - 2003 Update Transportation - Page 22 of 28