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Everett 2044 <br />Planning our future together <br />EVERETT 2044 <br />DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT ELEMENT <br />PROPOSED GOALS/POLICIES/ACTIONS <br />DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT ELEMENT [DD] <br />Overall Design and Development Goal: Design the City of Everett's built environment in harmony with the <br />n atural environment and its identity as the governmental center of Snohomish County and a major <br />e mployment location. <br />Goal DD 1: Design new development to enhance the distinctive physical, aesthetic, cultural and historic <br />features of its location, while accommodating growth and change. <br />Goal DD 2: Building and site designs are based on clear and predictable development regulations via a menu of <br />o ptions. <br />Goal DD 3: Everett has a variety of welcoming and inclusive public and private spaces promoting people's <br />health, happiness, social connection, and well-being. <br />Goal DD 4: Everett is a city of well -designed, safe, and walkable neighborhoods and districts. <br />Goal DD 5: Neighborhoods are designed and developed to enhance human and environmental health and <br />e quity, protect safety and livability, support local access to healthy food, limit negative impacts on water and <br />air quality, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, encourage active and sustainable design, and integrate nature <br />and the built environment. <br />Goal DD 6: Everett's built environment is designed for safety, equity, inclusion, and social connection, including <br />diversities of ages and active mobility. <br />Goal DD 7: Buildings, streets, and open spaces are designed for Tong -term resilience, including the ability to <br />adjust to changing demographics, climate, and economy, and to withstand and recover from natural disasters. <br />Goal DD 8: Everett's buildings incorporate a diversity of architectural styles and use innovative technologies <br />and construction techniques. <br />Goal DD 9: The city's buildings are enduring and resilient, designed with sensitivity to people and place, and <br />infused with creative architectural designs and innovations. <br />Goal DD 10: New development is compatible and graceful transitions between differing land use densities, <br />intensities, and uses. <br />Goal DD 11: Everett's historic and cultural resources and neighborhoods are protected and preserved. <br />OVERALL CITY IMAGE <br />DD-1 <br />Maintain a continuous, consistent, walkable, and human -scaled pedestrian environment at the <br />interface of buildings and the public realm. Promote interaction between indoor and outdoor <br />activities to create an inclusive and vibrant public realm. <br />DD-2 Support flexibility for podium tenants, provide a 15-foot ground floor height to accommodate retail, <br />commercial, maker space, as well as residential or residential -based businesses. <br />DD-3 Encourage opportunities to make indoor/outdoor connections and support retail or active ground <br />floor uses in frontage zones Encourage a high level of ground floor transparency along primary <br />11/26/2024 <br />DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT ELEMENT <br />PROPOSED GOALS/POLICIES/ACTIONS <br />Page 1 <br />