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CITY OF:EVERETT <br />RESOLUTION NO'. <br />AResolution Reaffirming the Importance of Land Use Policies Calling for the Preservation of <br />Industrial Land in Southwest Evrerat for Future Economic Growth. <br />WHEREAS, the City Council finds the following; <br />1. the City of Everett adopted its Comprehensive Plan in August, 1994, in conformance <br />with the Washington State Growth Management Act; and <br />2. the Growth Management Act, codified as RCW Chapter 36.70A, generally. allows for <br />comprehensive plans to be amended on an annual basis.; and <br />3. CEMEX applied for an Amendment to the Land Use Map of the Comprehensive Plan <br />on a portion of.a 117.2 acre parcel of land located in southwest Everett, seeking to <br />change the designation from "Office and Industrial Park" to ""Mixed Use Commercial <br />— Multiple Family"; and <br />4. an environmental analysis of the proposed Comprehensive Plan amendments.was <br />conducted by the City, in compliance with.the requirements of the State Environmental <br />Policy Act (SEPA), in the form of a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement <br />(SEIS); and <br />5. the SEIS included an analysis of the need for industrial land entitled South Everett <br />Industrial Land Analysis, in order to evaluate the long established policy toward the <br />protection and preservation of industrial land; and <br />6. the South Everett Industrial Land Analysis includes the following conclusion with <br />regard to the aggregate of all industrial lands: <br />The existing supply of developable industrial zoned lands are less than the amount <br />required for even a twenty year planning horizon (particularly if a market factor is <br />included to reflect that not all lands may be available for development or that <br />120 <br />