2025/06/18 Council Agenda Packet

EVERETT 2044 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN 6/17/2025 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT ELEMENT Page 47 DD-18 Provide for development, building, and site design that promotes physical activity. DD-19 Promote small scale neighborhood commercial and mixed-use buildings consistent with the scale and urban form of the surrounding neighborhood to support complete communities and reduce vehicle miles traveled (VMT). DD-20 Be attentive to ways code or policies may inadvertently disadvantage small-scale developments and developers, and where possible take steps to rectify imbalances. DD-21 Strengthen the sense of civic pride by providing attractive public spaces, trees and flowers along streets, public artwork, and distinctive architecture. DD-22 Ground level building frontage designs should provide a sense of privacy for any ground floor residential uses in a building while creating a lively, safe, and welcoming public streetscape environment for pedestrians. Mixed Use Centers DD-23 Enhance the design of Community Hubs and Neighborhood Nodes to provide for neighborhood needs, act as community gathering places and to support the area’s identity. DD-24 Allow the creation of policies and regulations that apply to specific sites. DD-24 Design mixed use centers to achieve compatibility among the uses and with adjacent uses. DD-25 Require development in mixed-use centers to provide active uses, human-scaled frontages, front doors, visual interest, transparency, and amenities along the street; locate parking lots and structured parking behind or to the side of buildings. DD-26 Establish standards for Downtown streetscape treatments to reinforce the identity of the Community Hub and promote the area’s aesthetic appeal. Consider use of treatments, such as paving materials for sidewalks, street furniture, landscaping, and lighting. Ensure that the treatments are implemented as part of public and private development. DD-27 Encourage compact commercial development and walking between businesses. DD-28 Position plazas in visible locations on major internal circulation routes, close to bus stops, or where there are strong pedestrian flows on neighboring sidewalks. DD-29 For large sites, development should be configured to create a focal plaza that is visible, accessible, socially engaging, and experienced as human-scaled. DD-30 Consider solar orientation, glare, and wind patterns in the design of a public plaza or open space and choose landscaping to maximize outdoor comfort and usability. DD-31 Integrate public art into public spaces, streetscapes, and buildings. DD-32 Use landscape to visually screen unwanted features in the pedestrian environment, soften blank walls, visually reduce large and continuous building mass, and add visual interest to building rooflines when used on terraces and upper levels.