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DRAFT 2/14/07 11:42 AM EXHIBIT G Development Plan The Everett Riverfront Development Plan (or, the "Plan") is a conceptual plan for redevelopment of City-owned property adjacent to the Snohomish River. The Plan would implement the goals, policies, and objectives of other approved City plans pertaining to the riverfront area and reflect intended high quality urban environmentally sensitive nature of the development. These approved City plans include, but are not limited to, the City's Comprehensive Plan, Shoreline Master Program, and Shoreline Public Access Plan (collectively "Adopted City Plans"). The Adopted City Plans provide a vision and specific goals for the development and redevelopment of the City's waterfront areas, including the Snohomish riverfront. As guided by the Adopted City Plans, the Plan calls for a riverfront development that will provide opportunities to enhance the character of this shoreline area and properly balance the ends of economic diversification, recreational opportunities, environmental protection, and shoreline restoration. The Plan intends for the development to be a model of economically sustainable, "green" development on former brownfield industrial sites. The Plan provides that the riverfront development will be of a high quality and will enhance and protect the natural features of the City's Snohomish riverfront. Reflecting the vitality and excitement of other emerging developments around the City of Everett, the Plan offers unlimited opportunities for a distinctive retail, commercial, residential, dining, and entertainment experience all within the artistry of nature. The riverfront development will create a place where citizens can stroll along the river, sit in a park, spend lunch at a sidewalk café eating great food, shop in unique shops, see a movie, and live within an environmentally sensitive development. Under the Plan, this riverfront area will become a premier destination for working, shopping, dining and living. The actions contemplated in the Plan are subject to appropriate and subsequent development and site-specific State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA), land use, shoreline, development, public and other applicable review by governmental agencies. Nothing in this Plan will have an adverse environmental impact or limit the choice of reasonable alternatives prior to completion of SEPA review. The conceptual Plan includes, but is not limited to, the following elements: 1. Economic Diversification: Creating a Place to Live,Work & Shop The Everett Riverfront development will he a unique development showcasing retail, commercial and residential space, public amenities, and extraordinary frontage along the spectacular Snohomish River to make it a premier destination for working, shopping, dining, and living. a. Retail. The Plan provides for the following retail development: G-1 06107-0063'LEGA L 13023969.1