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3. The design and implementation of public improvement projects undertaken in any of the designated gateway corridors identified in this section shall include aesthetic as well as functional considerations in order to support and enhance the visual quality and character of the city. Such aesthetic considerations shall include,but not be limited to, appropriate street trees and plantings, utility structures such as street lighting and traffic control devices, public right-of-way signs, retaining walls and pedestrian safety rails, bicycle lanes, transit benches and shelters, and other right-of-way improvements as appropriate. 4. The City shall develop street tree planting plans for public rights-of-way for designated gateway corridors and plant trees as it is financially capable. First priority should be given to downtown and to those portions of gateways which create a positive first impression for people entering the city (for example, along those gateways immediately adjacent to and leading into the city from freeway off-ramps). 5. The City shall encourage the Washington State Department of Transportation to preserve the large, native trees growing within and adjacent to the Interstate 5 R-O-W, and to supplement existing vegetation with additional tree plantings along freeways and state highways, and at highway interchanges, and to replace trees, if feasible, when removal is necessary. 6. The design of sites, buildings, landscaping and signs which are developed on properties abutting the designated gateway corridors should be of a quality that upgrades and enhances the aesthetic character of the City in general and the immediate area in particular. 7. The City shall work with property and business owners along gateway corridors to develop and implement streetscape improvement plans both within the public right-of- way and on properties abutting the right-of-way. Such improvement plans shall be coordinated with Snohomish County for the unincorporated portions of corridors which are located in the Everett Planning Area. 8. The City should consider developing site and building design guidelines or standards that apply to properties developed along designated gateway corridors. Section 9. The City of Everett Growth Management Comprehensive Plan, as contained in Exhibit A of Ordinance #2021-94, Section entitled"Transportation Element," is hereby amended by the addition of the following policy text: Mukilteo Mayor Brian Sullivan, in a letter dated May 24, 1995,has asked the City of Everett to "include what is currently called Paine Field Boulevard Extension in your Comprehensive Plan." The purpose of this request is to reinforce the Mukilteo Comprehensive Plan Transportation Element, which shows a road passing through southwest Everett from SR 526 to a relocated ferry and multimodal transportation terminal in the waterfront area in Mukilteo. The road is intended"to relieve stress on the single North-South road through our City (Mukilteo) and to provide a suitable gateway to the Multimodal Terminal waterfront area..." The City of Everett supports the concept of designating for further study the "Paine Field Boulevard Extension" north of SR 526. The purpose of placing this designation in the Transportation Element is to acknowledge the need for further study of this corridor as a possible transportation route of regional significance. Further study is required on a number of issues related to this potential roadway, including, but not limited to,