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/SP 0114014r.g.4.1 ORDINANCE NO. 2705-03 AN ORDINANCE Amending the Comprehensive Plan Text and Map Relating to the Updated Shoreline Master Program and the 2002 Comprehensive Plan Updates, Amending Exhibit A to Ordinance No.2021-94, as Amended WHEREAS, in April 2002 the City Council approved an updated Shoreline Master Program (SMP); and WHEREAS, the Washington Department of Ecology approved the SMP, and the update became effective on May 3, 2002; and WHEREAS, the regulations and environment designations in the SMP were adopted as part of the Zoning Code (Shoreline Overlay District), and the goals and policies were adopted as part of the Comprehensive Plan; and WHEREAS, during the process to update the SMP, the City identified changes to the Comprehensive Plan and Zoning Code that would be required to implement the SMP; and WHEREAS, a Final Determination of Non-Significance on the proposed revisions to the Comprehensive Plan and Zoning map and text was issued on May 5, 2003; and WHEREAS, the City of Everett adopted a Comprehensive Plan in August 1994 in conformance with the Washington State Growth Management Act; and WHEREAS, the Growth Management Act, codified as Chapter 36.70A, allows for comprehensive plans to be amended on an annual basis; and WHEREAS, the City of Everett initiated its 2002 annual comprehensive plan amendment process in July, 2002, which included the proposed revisions to the Comprehensive Plan text and map to provide consistency with the SMP; and WHEREAS, the intent of this ordinance is to make revisions to the Comprehensive Plan to implement the goals, policies, and environment designations in the SMP related to transportation facilities, and areas designated Aquatic, Aquatic Conservancy, Urban Conservancy, Urban Conservancy Recreation, and Urban Multi-Use in the SMP; and WHEREAS, the City Council finds that the proposed amendments to the Comprehensive Plan policies that provide for an Aquatic designation, provide for designating publicly owned environmentally sensitive areas Parks/Public Open Space, revise the Land Use Designation/