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RESOLUTION NO. 6872 A Resolution Establishing a Schedule for City Council Revii Adoption of the 2015 Ten -Year Update of the Comprehensive Plan WHEREAS, the City Council finds the following: 1. RCW 36.70A.130(5)(a) requires cities and counties within Snohomish County take action to review and, if needed, revise their comprehensive plans and development regulations to ensure the plan and regulations comply with the requirements of the Growth Management Act, by June 30, 2015. 2. The City of Everett has initiated the update of its comprehensive plan and development regulations and has made substantial progress toward completing all actions required to ensure that the plan and regulations comply with the Growth Management Act. 3. The City has conducted an audit of the current comprehensive plan and development regulations to identify amendments required to comply with changes in State law. 4. The City has conducted an audit of the Multi -County Planning Policies and the Countywide Planning Policies to identify changes required to make Everett's comprehensive plan and development regulations consistent. 5. The City has conducted a thorough public outreach and public participation program to solicit public input into the proposed list of amendments to the comprehensive plan and development regulations. 6. City staff and its consultant have produced drafts of all of the elements of the comprehensive plan and a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) which will soon be published for public comment. 7. Upon completion of the DEIS public comment period, the City will issue a Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) and complete the public review process with the Planning Commission. 8. The City will not complete all of the procedural steps necessary to adopt the update of the Comprehensive Plan and related development regulations by June 30, 2015. 9. It is anticipated that this process will result in the City Council taking action on the update of the Comprehensive Plan and development regulations in October, 2015. WHEREAS, the City Council concludes the following: 1. The City has completed a great majority of the substantive steps necessary to complete the 2015 update of its comprehensive plan and development regulations. 2. It is anticipated that the Planning Commission will complete its work on the plan update in September, 2015.