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EVERETT 2044 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN 6/17/2025 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN MARINE PORT ELEMENT Page 182 Marine Port Element Vision: The Port of Everett is an economic engine providing a deep-water port for the movement of goods and materials and coastal recreation opportunities, while protecting the coastline and cultural resources. Element Scope: The Marine Port element describes the long-term function and viability of maritime activities and proposed development in areas surrounding the Port of Everett. Introduction This Marine Port Element provides policy guidance to protect the long-term function and viability of the Port of Everett’s Marine Core Area. The goals and policies are drafted to ensure that local land use decisions are made in consideration of the long-term and widespread economic contribution of the international container ports and related industrial lands and transportation systems and to ensure that it continues to function effectively alongside a vibrant waterfront and adjacent to Metro Everett. The Marine Core Area is defined as the Port of Everett’s heavy industrial zoned area in the East Waterway and along Port Gardner Bay, including Mount Baker Terminal. The intent of the element’s goals and policies is to: • Protect the long-term function and viability of the marine core areas of container port and port- related industrial areas. • Maintain efficient access to the marine core area through freight corridors. • Minimize and mitigate, to the extent practicable, potential land use conflicts along the edge of the marine core area and associated heavy haul routes. • Identify key freight transportation corridor improvements • Provide consistency between the City’s Marine Port Element and the Port of Everett’s Comprehensive Scheme of Harbor Improvements. • Allow for sufficient planning flexibility to secure emerging economic opportunities. • Consider Port activities when planning for or implementing City projects on heavy haul routes serving the Port.