2010/05/26 Council Agenda Packet

Staff Note: The following 4 pages are provided by CEMEX in response to a comment from Robert Landles. The 4 page checklist is from the City of Santa Clara, California, and is apparently used by that city when considering conversion of industrial land to residential use. The reader should be advised that the City of Everett uses a defined set of criteria for considering changes to the land use map and Policies of the Comprehensive Plan. Those criteria are identified below. They will be the criteria the Planning Commission and City Council will use to evaluate the proposed amendment. a. The proposed land use designation must be supported by or be consistent with the existing policies of the various elements of the comprehensive Plan. b. Have circumstances related to the subject property and the area in which it is located changed sufficiently since the adoption of the Land Use Element to justify a change to the land use designation? If so, the circumstances which have changed should be described in detail to support findings that a different land use designation is appropriate. c. Are the assumptions on which the land use designation of the subject property is based erroneous, or is new information available which was not considered at the time the Land Use Element was adopted that justifies a change to the land use designation? If so, the erroneous assumptions or new information should be described in detail to enable the Planning Commission and City Council to find that the land use designation should be changed. d. Does the proposed designation promote a more desirable land use pattern for the community as a whole? If so, a detailed description of the qualities of the proposed land use designation that make the land use pattern for the community more desirable should be provided to enable the Planning Commission and City Council to find that the proposed land use designation is in the community's best interest.