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EVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN Goal 6.2: Essential Public Facilities To provide for the siting and construction of essential public facilities to accommodate projected growth over the next twenty years. Essential public facilities are defined as those facilities that are typically difficult to site and considered to be important to orderly growth. Objective 6.2.1 Ensure that the siting and construction of capital facilities considered essential public facilities are not precluded by the City's Comprehensive Plan. Policy 6.2.1 Provide for a review process for the siting and construction of capital facilities. The City shall also provide for a common review process for the siting of interjurisdictional essential public facilities. Policy 6.2.2 Identify general locations of existing and proposed capital facilities considered essential public facilities (see also Land Use Element policies). Policy 6.2.3 Capital facilities identified as essential public facilities shall be located so as to provide the necessary service to the intended users of the facility with the least impact on surrounding land uses. Policy 6.2.4 The City will work with the County, Snohomish County Tomorrow, and other cities to seek an equitable distribution of essential public facilities for the entire county. The City will seek to avoid an unfair concentration of these facilities in any one city and in any one area within the city of Everett. Policy 6.2.5 Essential public facilities that are provided by the State of Washington and by agencies of the State will be encouraged to engage in comprehensive planning for their facilities needs. The State will be encouraged to promote and adopt policies that recognize the value of comprehensive planning for facilities and which recognize the role of local governments in planning for and regulating the siting of such facilities. Implementation Review, evaluate and amend as needed, land use permit processes and policies for capital facilities considered essential public facilities. The process shall be integrated into the review process specified by the City's zoning code, SEPA ordinance, and other applicable ordinances that promote land use compatibility and mitigation of potential adverse impacts caused by the siting and operation of such facilities. Goal 6.3: Consistency To ensure consistency among elements of the City's Comprehensive Plan and among affected agencies and neighboring jurisdictions' plans. Objective 6.3.1 The Capital Facilities and Utilities Element of the City's Comprehensive Plan shall support the Land Use Element, be consistent with all other elements of the plan and, to the degree possible, be consistent with all other local,regional, and State capital facilities plans. Policy 6.3.1 The location of capital facilities within residentially zoned areas shall be planned to protect the residential neighborhoods adjoining the sites from unnecessary impacts associated with facility development and operations. CAPITAL FACILITIES ELEMENT 6