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ORDINANCE NO. 2736-03mii011811/1. 12d.24 AN ORDINANCE Amending the Shoreline Master Program to Provide for Piers and Docks for Transportation Facilities of Statewide Significance in the Aquatic Conservancy Environment, Amending the Everett Comprehensive Plan and Zoning Code, Amending Ordinance No 2021-94 and Ordinance No. 1671-89, as Amended by Ordinance No. 2600-02 and Repealing Ordinance No. 2707-03 WHEREAS, in April 2002 the City Council approved an updated Shoreline Master Program (SMP) in Ordinance No. 2600-02; 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, including providing for transportation facilities; and WHEREAS, the Shoreline Management Act authorizes the City of Everett to amend its Shoreline Master Program; and WHEREAS,the Port of Everett requested a revision to the Shoreline Master Program regulations to provide for piers and docks for transportation facilities in the Aquatic Conservancy shoreline environment; and WHEREAS, the Shoreline Master Program provides transportation facilities in all shoreline environments, but only allows piers and docks for public access uses in the Aquatic Conservancy environment; and WHEREAS,the Shoreline Master Program does not distinguish between transportation facilities of statewide significance and other/local transportation facilities; and WHEREAS, the City limited the Port's proposed revision to transportation facilities of statewide significance as defined in other proposed Comprehensive Plan and Zoning revisions; and