Ordinance 2202-97 - Laserfiche WebLink

• Additionally, environmental factors such as steep slopes or wetlands, and lack of sanitary sewer facilities may limit the development potential and developable density of a property. In such situations, it may be difficult to achieve the minimum density provided by the Land Use Map. However, on a property that has no development constraints, the development standards of the Zoning Code should enable a property owner to realize a development yield within the range expressed on the Land Use Map. Section 4. The text of the Transportation Element contained in Exhibit A of Ordinance#2021- 94, as amended, is amended by the addition of the following text at the beginning of the Introduction to the Transportation Element:: (The reader should note that the sections of the Transportation Element which address regional transit investments were prepared for the initial 1994 Comprehensive Plan adoption. The language reflected the initial investment strategy that the Joint Regional Policy Committee, and its successor agency,the Regional Transit Authority, developed in 1993 and early 1994. A$6.7 billion, 16 year program was defeated by the voters in March, 1995. A revised phase one plan of$3.9 billion and 10 years was approved by voters in November 1996. The transportation element will need to be amended. The element will be adjusted for the 1997 plan update based on the November 1996 vote. Additionally,the circulation concept for the plan will need to be revised. This was also prepared for the original Comprehensive Plan in 1994. The possibility of a state transportation funding package in the 1997 state legislature may affect the type and amount of transportation investments that Everett can expect to be made (e.g., regional HOV lane completion). Consequently, the circulation concept will also be modified for the 1997 update.) Section 5. The Transportation Element, contained in Exhibit A of Ordinance #2021-94, as amended, which reads as follows: Land Use/Transportation Relationship The Vision 2020 Growth and Transportation Strategy for the central Puget Sound area endorses the concept of concentrated employment centers, which will be connected by regional rapid transit. However, Everett is assuming that the regional high capacity rapid transit system will not be built early enough within the planning period to promote relatively high levels and densities of population growth. Even if it were to be build sooner than anticipated, it would not significantly affect travel demand within the city. Everett is assuming that commuter rail will be established along the shoreline Burlington Northern rail lines within approximately five years of the adoption of this Plan. This new corridor service would benefit downtown Everett and support redevelopment efforts in the central business district. is hereby amended to read as follows: Land Use/Transportation Relationship The Vision 2020 Growth and Transportation Strategy for the central Puget Sound area endorses the concept of concentrated employment centers, which will be connected by regional rapid transit. However, Everett is assuming that the regional rapid transit system