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Park District Planned Development Overlay | Exhibit A.2 – Park District Design Standards Page 3 Exhibit A.2_Park District PDO_Design Standards_24-0703 1.1 – Purpose of the Design Standards The overall purpose of the Park District Design Standards is to create an implementation tool that will direct a high level of design in the implementation of the Park District consistent with the goals of the Everett Comprehensive Plan. These standards are intended to: • Provide clear objectives for the planning and design of development in the Park District. • Preserve and protect the public health, safety, and welfare of Park District residents, employees, and visitors. • Promote and accomplish the goals, policies, and objectives of the Everett comprehensive plan. • Ensure that new townhouse, multifamily, and mixed-use development is of high quality and appropriate to the Park District’s character and context with the Delta neighborhood and Everett. • Promote increased pedestrian, bicycling, and transit use. • Enhance the livability of residential developments. • Enhance the public’s physical and visual access to open space. 1.2 – Relationship to Other Standards Where provisions of these design standards conflict with provisions in any other section of the Everett Municipal Code, these provisions prevail unless otherwise required by law. 1.3 – Planning Director Authority The Planning Director has the authority to disapprove, approve with conditions, or require the applicant to make design changes if the Planning Director determines the design does not meet the design standards. The Planning Director may engage the services of a licensed architect, or other licensed design professional when the Planning Director deems it appropriate and in the public interest, to provide recommendations in connection with the review of any project in the Park District, including those involving discretionary design-related decisions, such as a compliance alternative. Recommendations of the architect or design professional are advisory only and must not otherwise limit the Planning Director’s authority to require changes in any project design to meet the design standards or the Planning Director’s discretion to approve or deny requested compliance alternatives or apply discretionary criteria. 1.4 – Compliance Alternatives A. Overview and purpose. The Park District Design Standards have been crafted to provide both predictability and flexibility to the project applicant(s) and the City. The predictability comes in the form of clear minimum standards. Flexibility comes in two forms: (1) Offering multiple ways of meeting a particular standard (an approach taken in a number of standards); and (2) allowing for compliance alternatives – which provide the applicant with the option of proposing an alternative design treatment provided such compliance alternative meets the purpose of the particular standard and any additional compliance