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#:/%cm'Am RESOLUTION NO. 5553 A RESOLUTION ADDRESSING COUNTY-WIDE PLANNING POLICY HO-4 REGARDING FAIR SHARE HOUSING ALLOCATION OF LOW-INCOME HOUSING IN THE UPDTE OF THE CITY OF EVERETT GROWTH MANAGEMENT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. WHEREAS, the Growth Management Act (GMA) requires the housing element of each jurisdiction's comprehensive plan to make adequate provision for existing and projected needs of all economic segments of the community(RCW 36.70A.070(2)(d)); and WHEREAS, Snohomish County-wide Planning Policy HO-4 requires cities and the County to prevent further concentration of low-income and special needs housing into only a few areas; and WHEREAS, GMA requires city and county comprehensive plans to be consistent with the countywide planning policies; and WHEREAS, Snohomish County Tomorrow, the inter-jurisdictional forum for coordination of planning efforts among local governments in Snohomish County, has developed a methodology for estimating existing and projected 2025 unmet housing needs (households paying more than 30% of their household income for housing)by jurisdiction; and WHEREAS, the methodology was initially developed in the mid-1990's and attempts to make adjustments for cities that have a disproportionate share of low-income housing stock in relation to the rest of the county; and WHEREAS, the fair share housing allocation model is complex, the methodology is not accepted by all of the cities within the county, and the target number of households with unmet housing need is not easily understood; and WHEREAS, other counties have used different models to address low income housing needs on a countywide and local jurisdictional basis that are more easily understood and for which the results of planning efforts are more readily monitored and understood; and WHEREAS, cities and Snohomish County are in the process of conducting the 10-Year update of their comprehensive plans and it is not timely to abandon the fair share housing allocation model and develop a different model at this time; and WHEREAS, the City of Everett is concerned that there is not sufficient time to develop a new model in this cycle of comprehensive plan updates to adequately address the need to provide for low income households within each city and in unincorporated areas; and