Ordinance 2203-97 - Laserfiche WebLink

• • while maintaining minimum separation requirements between adult use businesses and their adverse secondary impacts and sensitive land uses in the City; 3. The proposed amendments to the Land Use Element policies related to adult use businesses are consistent with other policies of the Comprehensive Plan, including the policies for land use, economic development, promotion of job growth in industrial areas, employment densities supportive of efficient transportation infrastructure, preservation of neighborhood character, and providing for the commercial service needs of Everett and surrounding areas in Snohomish County; WHEREAS, proponents of adult use businesses have challenged the City's adult use ordinances before the Central Puget Sound Growth Management Hearings Board and in State and Federal Court; and WHEREAS, amending comprehensive plans and development regulations under the Growth Management Act is a comparatively new process; and WHEREAS, the previous litigation has raised procedural as well as substantive legal challenges to the City's actions; and WHEREAS, the pending and potential litigation if successful even on procedural grounds would threaten the City's ability to manage the secondary adverse impacts of adult use businesses; and WHEREAS, the continued threat to the City's adult use business policies and regulations creates a risk to the City's ability to manage the averse secondary impacts from such businesses; and WHEREAS,the City Council finds this risk to constitute an emergency; Now, Therefore, The City of Everett Does Ordain: Section 1. The title of Ordinance No. 2143-96 which reads as follows: An Ordinance Amending Exhibit A of Ordinance#2021-94,the City of Everett Comprehensive Plan, and in particular,the Land Use Element Policies as they Relate to Adult Use Businesses, Providing an Interim Designation, and Declaring an Emergency to Exist. be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: An Ordinance Amending Exhibit A of Ordinance#2021-94,the City of Everett Comprehensive Plan, and in particular,the Land Use Element Policies as they Relate to Adult Use Businesses, and Declaring an Emergency to Exist. Section 2. Section 2 of Ordinance No. 2143-96, which reads as follows: 1.3.11 Adult use businesses, as defined by the Zoning Code are considered compatible with all of the industrial land use designations as designated on the Land Use Map,provided that they meet the locational criteria of the Zoning Code. All non-industrial land uses which 3