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EVERETT 2044 <br />COMPREHENSIVE PLAN <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> 6/17/2025 <br />COMPREHENSIVE PLAN <br />MARINE PORT ELEMENT <br /> Page 187 <br /> MP-16 Continue to reduce air emissions through actions such as the use of clean energy sources, <br />retrofitting existing equipment and vehicles, purchasing low emission equipment and vehicles, <br />and consider of infrastructure improvements that would support the use of electrical shore <br />power for cargo vessels. <br />MP-17 This element recognizes the need for the Port to expand to accommodate market changes and <br />increased cargo volumes. The Port will mitigate the impacts of redevelopment and expansion <br />consistent with the City’s Shoreline Master Program and other local, state, and federal <br />regulations. <br />MP-18 The City, Port of Everett, City of Mukilteo, Washington State Ferries and Tulalip Tribes should <br />continue to work in close collaboration to ensure that port and port-related industrial uses <br />remain viable and that land use development along the edges of the Marine Port Core Area is <br />thoughtfully planned to avoid land use conflicts and incompatibility. <br />MP-19 The City and the Port will collaborate to develop landscape and street standards that recognize <br />the special working character of the Marine Port Core area. <br />MP-20 Ensure that the City and the Port collaborate on efforts to review its long-range maritime <br />development program that assesses future cargo market demand, developing technologies, <br />geographic constraints and other factors affecting future intermodal cargo opportunities for <br />the Marine Port Core area. <br />MP-21 Public access is not permitted on federally secured sites. In the Marine Port Core area, an <br />alternate project or payment fee in lieu will be assessed to provide public access in areas that <br />do not conflict with water-dependent uses and are not already required in that location. <br />Transportation <br />MP-22 Regional Freight Truck Corridors. Coordinate with state and local agencies to emphasize the <br />importance of heavy haul corridors to state and local economic health, and support <br />improvements planned on these corridors that enhance freight mobility, including ample <br />heights, turning radius envelope protections, public safety, community aesthetics, and quality <br />of life in abutting neighborhoods. <br />MP-23 Heavy Haul Routes. Preserve and enhance the freight truck corridors that are designated as <br />Heavy Haul Routes, as they are critical to efficient movement of goods within and between the <br />Marine Port Core Area and Transition Area. Improvements that are planned in these corridors <br />will receive additional priority scoring under the “Enhance Freight Mobility” project <br />prioritization criterion described in the Transportation element. <br />MP-24 Intermodal Connections. Support and encourage intermodal facilities and the transport of <br />cargo via rail, and rail to barge, to reduce the roadway traffic impacts related to growth in truck <br />traffic associated with Port throughput, provided that appropriate shoreline public access is <br />provided or maintained as provided by the City’s Shoreline Public Access Plan. <br />MP-25 Mobility on Heavy Haul Routes. Emphasize freight truck mobility on Heavy Haul Routes. <br />Coordinate with the Port to develop strategies to minimize truck queues and other traffic