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EVERETT 2044 <br />COMPREHENSIVE PLAN <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> 6/17/2025 <br />COMPREHENSIVE PLAN <br />TRANSPORTATION ELEMENT <br /> Page 81 <br />Transportation Element <br />VISION: People and goods move easily, efficiently, and safely within and through Everett. <br />ELEMENT SCOPE: The Transportation Element addresses how people and goods get around the city by <br />all modes, including walking and rolling, cars, buses, rail and trucks. <br />The Transportation Element establishes a strategic framework to guide transportation investments in <br />Everett through the next 20 years to the horizon year 2044, based on the community's vision and goals. <br />The element incorporates both immediate and long-term strategies, encompassing programs, policies, <br />and projects to foster the growth of an integrated multimodal transportation system in Everett. The plan <br />aligns with and helps implement the Regional Transportation Plan as well as other elements of the <br />Comprehensive Plan, and guides more detailed plans like the Bicycle Master Plan, ADA Transition Plan, <br />and Everett Transit Long Range Plan. The plan guides the work of city staff and transportation agencies <br />operating in Everett and steers the development of the City’s six-year Transportation Improvement <br />Program (TIP), annual city budgets, and capital funding ordinances by outlining the projects the city will <br />pursue to accommodate travel demands during the planning period. <br />Getting Around Everett <br />Since the last plan update, the city has revamped its overall planning framework, which sets the tone for <br />the investment priorities that are established in this plan. Key changes include: <br />• Higher growth targets; A focus on facilitating middle housing to provide reasonable and <br />affordable housing options for people who live in Everett <br />• Updating Everett’s street network to ensure that people have safe travel options beyond <br />driving, including the ability to access future Swift and light rail services on foot or by <br />bicycle/scooter <br />• Further emphasizing new requirements around climate planning and the environment, including <br />supporting regional goals to dramatically reduce vehicle miles traveled and greenhouse gas <br />emissions, support fish passage, and clean stormwater runoff from our roads <br />• Enhanced focus on equity and addressing the disproportionate pollution and transportation <br />injury and health burdens that have been placed on historically marginalized communities <br />• Thinking proactively about how the City’s transportation network can be operated and <br />maintained in a good state of repair and coexist within the broader regional system of freeways <br />and transit services <br />These changes directly affect how this plan has been developed, including the transportation needs <br />identified, the investments considered, and the ultimate set of policies, projects, and programs <br />advanced. <br />The Urban Form Element of this Comprehensive Plan describes land uses in Everett today, in terms of <br />current densities and form, as well as what is planned for the future. The Our Community section