1. Advise the city council regarding transportation policy and proposed transportation projects, and provide advice concerning transportation policy and its relation to comprehensive plan policies and goals.

2. Provide advice to the city council and the city planning commission on revisions to the comprehensive plan.

3. Provide a list of investment priorities to inform the development of the transportation improvement plan (TIP) and annual revisions thereof, and provide review and advice on this plan to the department of public works and the city council. This list shall be consistent with the transportation element of the comprehensive plan, and shall be transmitted to the department of public works on a schedule consistent with their work plan to revise the TIP.

4. Upon request by the city council, oversee the creation or review of detailed investment plans to advance city transportation goals as stated in the comprehensive plan, including but not limited to bicycle and pedestrian investment plans, and downtown or citywide circulation plans.

5. Provide advice to the council on concurrency planning.

6. Provide information to the city council and to the WTA to ensure that routes and schedules support city plans for infill and mode shift.

7. Develop parking policies for on- and off-street facilities that support both business vitality and mode shift.

8. Advise the city on intercity transportation issues.

9. Facilitate citizen and neighborhood involvement in transportation policy decision-making.

10. The transportation commission is authorized to work with city departments and any public development authorities established by the city, in order to assist in planning and development of mixed-use parking structures, and to ensure that the development of such facilities remains consistent with mode shift goals as stated in the comprehensive plan.

11. The transportation commission is authorized to provide advice to the Bellingham Transportation Benefit District No. 1 regarding transportation policy and proposed transportation benefit district projects. [Ord. 2010-09-054; Ord. 2009-08-053].