2025/06/18 Council Agenda Packet

EVERETT 2044 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN 6/17/2025 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN URBAN FORM ELEMENT Page 23 intensive or low-rise in scale, although larger scale can be appropriate in locations close to high-capacity transit stations or near the Central City. Employment Areas Everett is providing for employment in Metro Everett, the Community Hubs, Neighborhood Nodes with the designation of these areas as mixed-use zoning. The City will continue to support the growth and development of The Southwest Manufacturing Industrial Center (MIC) and the industrial areas of the Port of Everett, Riverside and Smith Island. The North Everett campuses of Providence Everett Hospital, Everett Community College and Washington State University are valuable employment centers to the city and the region. The land use plan provides for more than 7650 acres for employment, sufficient for 67,340 additional jobs. Corridors Corridors, like centers, are areas where Everett will grow and change over the next 20 years. They are busy, active streets with redevelopment potential. They are close to neighborhoods and are places with transit, stores, housing, and employers. They need to be planned, designed, and improved to be places that benefit and become successful additions to surrounding neighborhoods. The largest places of focused activity and density along these corridors are designated as centers. Corridors are not intended to be long commercial strips or a single land use pattern, but to achieve a range of land use types and densities that vary along the corridor. The Transportation Element and implementing plans establish a transportation hierarchy for the system as well as for individual corridors, the following policies direct the design of corridors to consider the direct integration of land use and transportation and the role of public rights-of-way in creating interesting, vibrant, and unique places. Along the corridors, the designated mixed-use centers should have the highest degree of design quality and amenities for pedestrians, residents, and retail use. As development occurs in centers or on large parcels of land the street pattern needs to connect to corridors and adjacent neighborhoods. Urban Corridors Urban Corridors are the city’s busiest, widest, and most prominent streets (Evergreen Way, Broadway, Everett Mall Way, 19th Ave SE). They provide vital connections among centers, the rest of the city, and the region. They support the movement of people and goods across the city, with high levels of traffic and pedestrian activity. Major Corridors provide opportunities for growth and transit-supportive densities of housing, commerce, and employment. Development along corridors is intended to be up to