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=I <br /> EVERETT <br /> WASHINGTON <br /> ORDINANCE NO. 3831-21 <br /> An ORDINANCE AMENDING the Comprehensive Plan Land Use Map and Zoning Map for 7500 Hardeson <br /> Road, and AMENDING Ordinance No. 2021-94, as amended, as part of the 2021 Annual Docket of <br /> Comprehensive Plan amendments. <br /> WHEREAS, <br /> A. The City of Everett maintains a comprehensive plan under the Growth Management Act (GMA) and <br /> last conducted a periodic review and update of the plan in 2015 with annual amendments adopted <br /> since then; and <br /> B. Consistent with GMA requirements, the city reviews proposed amendments to the comprehensive <br /> plan concurrently as part of an annual docket to facilitate public participation and better understand <br /> the cumulative effect of various proposals; and <br /> C. The comprehensive plan amendments contained in this ordinance were prepared following the <br /> procedural requirements in EMC 15.02.095, EMC 15.03.400, and EMC 15.02.700; and <br /> D. The 2021 docket of comprehensive plan amendments includes three ordinances: <br /> a. Ordinance 3831-21 (this ordinance) <br /> b. Ordinance 3832-21 <br /> c. Ordinance 3830-21; and <br /> E. The City of Everett initiated its annual comprehensive plan amendment process on June 1, 2021 by <br /> public notice. A timely application was filed to amend the comprehensive plan land use designation <br /> from Industrial to Commercial Mixed Use and modify the zoning from Light Industrial 2 to Business <br /> for a 1.32-acre site located on the southwest corner of 75th St. SW and Hardeson Road; and <br /> F. Over the past several years, commercial development has occurred on the site seeking to support <br /> the employment uses in the vicinity consistent with the development regulations in place at the <br /> time of development; and <br /> G. The Planning Commission reviewed the amendments contained in this ordinance, including holding <br /> briefings on August 17, 2021 and a public hearing on October 5, 2021; and <br /> H. The Planning Commission, after hearing from the public and deliberating,voted to approve <br /> Resolution 21-03 on October 19, 2021, recommending the city council approve the amendments <br />