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r . ,A144 liltms ORDINANCE NO. 2384-99 '�' a An Ordinance Amending the Text of the Zoning Code for the Planned Development (PD) Overlay Zone and the Rezone Procedures, and amending Sections 29.020, 29.060, 29.070, 29.080 and 41.160.D of Ordinance No. 1671-89. WHEREAS,the City Council finds: 1. The City of Everett adopted a new Zoning Code in 1989, which established a Planned Development(PD) Overlay Zone to be used to allow for the modification of certain permitted uses and development standards; and 2. The PD Overlay Zone requires that a specific site development plan be prepared indicating the location of buildings and other site improvements; and 3. The PD Overlay Zone requires the use of the Performance Agreement Rezone process for site specific rezones, which is implemented with a Resolution of Intent to Rezone; and 4. The PD Overlay Zone requires that development of a site be completed within 3 years of the approval of the Resolution of Intent to Rezone; and 5. The Performance Agreement rezone process is the only rezone process provided for in the Zoning Code which allows the City to apply special conditions and restrictions as part of the rezone process; and 6. The City has not had a single application for a Planned Development Overlay Zone since the adoption of the Zoning Code in 1989; and 7. The Planning Commission held a public hearing on March 16, 1999, and recommended that the City Council approve revisions to the Planned Development Overlay Zone and to the Rezone procedures of the Zoning Code; and WHEREAS, the City Council concludes: 1. The Planned Development Overlay Zone is a valuable development tool which can be used to allow creative developments that may not strictly comply with the requirements of the underlying zoning, but which would otherwise benefit the City of Everett; and 2. The PD Overlay Zone contains some procedural mechanisms that discourage the use of the PD Overlay Zone process; and