Ordinance 2161-96 - Laserfiche WebLink

• 4 economic conditions or social values change, growth trends cause a shift in land use needs, or the community's idea of what it wishes to be may be altered. When such changes occur, it is appropriate to review the Goals, Objectives and Policies of the plan. The policies of the comprehensive plan are intended to provide a stable framework to guide the long term physical growth within the Everett Planning Area. Therefore, consideration of changes to the plan policies should be based upon the long term benefit to the community of such changes. Changes to the foundations upon which the policies are based may create a need to change the policies and subsequent programs or regulations which implement the policies. Major policy changes should be viewed in the context of changes to the law, changed socioeconomic conditions, shifts of community opinion and priorities, and significant changes to the amount and characteristics of anticipated future growth. The following factors shall be considered in reviewing proposed amendments to comprehensive plan policies. 1. Have circumstances related to the subject policy changed sufficiently since the adoption of the plan to justify a change to the subject policy? If so, the circumstances which have changed should be described in detail to support the proposed amendment to the policy. 2. Are the assumptions upon which the policy is based erroneous, or is new information available which was not considered at the time the plan was adopted, that justify a change to the policy? If so, the erroneous assumptions or new information should be described in detail to support the proposed policy amendment. 3. Does the proposed change in policy promote a more desirable growth pattern for the community as a whole? The manner in which the proposed policy change promotes a more desirable growth pattern should be described in detail. 4. Is the proposed policy change consistent with other existing plan policies, or does it conflict with other plan policies? The extent to which the proposed policy change is consistent with or conflicts with other existing policies should be explained in detail. Section 2. The City of Everett Growth Management Comprehensive Plan, as contained in Exhibit A of Ordinance#2021-94, Section entitled"Introduction," is hereby amended by the addition of the following text: County-wide Population and Employment Target Reconciliation Process. The Growth Management Act requires that the State Office of Financial Management dictate the minimum population level for which counties must plan. There is no procedure in the Act for allocating population or employment to smaller subareas of the county, but it gives each county's legislative body the responsibility to set the population level for each city. There is no requirement in GMA for establishment of a prescribed employment level. In Snohomish County, the process for allocating growth among cities and unincorporated areas of the county is to be determined by Snohomish County Tomorrow. This process is a collaboration among all affected jurisdictions, with the growth targets of each city being accepted to a great extent by the County, and the balance of the growth being allocated to the unincorporated areas. Everett's 2012 growth target for those portions of the Everett Planning Area within the city limits in 1994 are slightly higher than those established by Snohomish County Tomorrow- a