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ORDINANCE NO. 3288-12 <br />An Ordinance Amending The Comprehensive Plan <br />Map Expanding The. City's Urban <br />Growth Boundary on Smith Island, Amending <br />Ordinance No. 2021-94, As Amended <br />Smith Island UGA Expansion <br />WHEREAS, the City of Everett adopted a Comprehensive Plan in August, 1994, in conformance <br />with the Washington State Growth Management Act; and <br />WHEREAS, the City of Everett completed its 10 year update to the Comprehensive Plan with <br />City Council adoption on. July 20, 2005; and <br />WHEREAS, the Growth Management Act, codified as Chapter 36.70A, allows for <br />comprehensive plans to be amended on an annual basis; and <br />AREAS, the City of Everett initiated its 2011- 2012 annual Comprehensive Plan <br />amendment process in July of 2011, which included consideration of Land Use Map <br />amendments and rezone applications initiated by property owners and the Everett PlaLniag <br />Commission; -and <br />WHEREAS, the City of Everett owns a 20 acre property, on Smith Island, part of a larger <br />mitigation / restoration area east of the Waste Water Treatment Facility, that is currently in <br />Snohomish County and under the jurisdiction of Snohomish County for land use permits, and <br />WHEREAS, a larger associated restoration / mitigation area extending west and south of the <br />subject property is currently inside the Everett City limits, and therefore under permitting control <br />of the City, and <br />WHEREAS, the Everett Planning Commission made this recommendation in order to eventually <br />bring the property as shown in Exhibit A into the City, and under City Jurisdiction, which will <br />provide for more streamlined permitting and other benefits, and <br />WHEREAS, the Planning Commission held a public hearing on the matter on March 6, 2012, at <br />which time it heard from the public, and staff, and considered the various aspects of the proposal <br />before recommending approval; and <br />