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EVERETT 2044 <br />COMPREHENSIVE PLAN <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> 6/17/2025 <br />COMPREHENSIVE PLAN <br />URBAN FORM ELEMENT <br /> Page 33 <br />UF-30 Designate mixed use and industrial zones near transit and other public services and amenities <br />to support and concentrate employment and maintain a diverse economy. <br />UF-32 Evaluate the land development and transportation needs of Everett’s employment districts <br />when creating and amending land use plans and making infrastructure investments. <br />UF-33 Plan for medical, educational, commercial, or industrial campus development that limits <br />impacts on adjacent land uses. <br />UF-34 Allow light industrial, and manufacturing uses to be located in mixed use zones and near <br />residential and other sensitive uses when adverse impacts can be mitigated through <br />separation, screening, or other techniques. <br />UF-35 Reserve industrial land for industrial uses and those that are highly complementary; prohibit <br />incompatible uses on industrially designated land. <br />UF-36 Connect industrial areas to each other, to the Everett Marine Port, and to regional destinations <br />by designated priority freight corridors. <br />UF-37 When siting essential public facilities, the city shall consider the project’s needs and goals, <br />along with its compatibility with surrounding land uses and other relevant criteria. <br />Corridors <br />UF-38 Make Everett’s corridors and connectors thriving places for people that support and link <br />Everett’s centers. <br />UF-39 Plan streets and adjacent land uses to frame, shape, and activate public spaces of streets. <br />UF-40 Establish land use and zoning supporting context-sensitive, well-designed, pedestrian-oriented <br />mid-scale residential development within walking distance of centers, corridors, and transit. <br />UF-41 Protect and connect the area’s network of habitat areas and wildlife corridors, streams, parks, <br />and tree canopy. <br />Street Patterns <br />UF-42 Preserve the city’s urban fabric of compact blocks and highly interconnected grid of streets in <br />the urban grid area. <br />UF-43 Guide the evolving street and block system in the suburban big block area in ways that build on <br />positive aspects of the area’s large blocks, such as opportunities to establish mid‐block open <br />space patterns and create new connections through blocks that make it easier to access <br />community destinations with pedestrian, bicycle, or multi-modal routes. <br />UF-44 Plan large site redevelopments into blocks up to 300’ by 600’. <br />Preserving natural areas and habitats <br />UF-45 Collaborate with the Tulalip Tribes to protect significant shorelines and waters integral to tribal <br />cultural practices and treaty resources.