Ordinance 2853-05 - Laserfiche WebLink

WHEREAS, the schedule established by the Growth Management Act in RCW 36.70A.130(4) mandates that each city in Washington take action to review and, if necessary, revise its comprehensive plan to ensure compliance with the Growth Management Act; and WHEREAS,Everett's deadline to comply with said schedule was December 1, 2004, which was extended by the state legislature to December 1, 2005; and WHEREAS, the City initiated the 2004 annual comprehensive plan amendment process in July, 2004, which included the comprehensive review and amendment per RCW 36.70A.130(4) as well as Land Use Map amendments proposed by the City and private applicants; and WHEREAS, in September, 2004, the City held a developers forum as part of the Comprehensive Plan 10-Year update and the developers identified the East-Central Area, including the Everett Station Area as the best opportunity for higher density housing; and WHEREAS, the City's Economic Development staff asked that thel0-Year update consider provisions to allow housing in the entire station area in existing buildings in work/live units or in new construction implemented through a master-plan-planned development overlay process, which is a rezone process requiring public hearings; and WHEREAS,the proposed amendment was reviewed in the Draft and Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the 10-Year Update to the Comprehensive Plan; and WHEREAS,Planning and Community Development staff held an open house for property owners and the Planning Commission conducted public hearings to review the Everett Station Area Plan with the proposed amendments and to take additional public testimony, and recommended approval of the Everett Station Area Plan with the amendments to allow residential use as described above; and WHEREAS, the City Council finds that the proposed amendments to the Comprehensive Plan are consistent with the criteria for revisions to the Comprehensive Plan policies and map as follows: 1. Circumstances related to the subject policy have changed sufficiently since the adoption of the plan to justify a change in the subject policy. The Everett Station Area Plan is an addition to the Comprehensive Plan, rather than a change in an existing policy. The 1994 Comprehensive Plan provided for conceptual high capacity transit corridors and stations. The Map identified a conceptual Potential High Capacity Transit Station and Growth Center where the BNSF line crosses Pacific Avenue. Subsequently, additional studies resulted in the location and construction of Everett Station south of Pacific Avenue. The proposed plan was developed in response to Comprehensive 2