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It is expected that most commercial and industrial buildings will be 1-3 stories but there may be <br />an occasional new building containing 4-5 stories. Transit oriented mixed use buildings <br />containing multiple -family residential uses on the upper floors may be higher than 5 stories. <br />Views of Everett Station should be preserved from Broadway down the 32nd Street corridor. <br />A longer term vision will be considered when the City prepares a subarea plan for the expanded <br />Metropolitan Center. The City must consider more significant building heights if it is to <br />accommodate the population and job growth expectations of the Vision 2040 Regional Growth <br />Strategy. <br />SECTION 2: Planning and Urban Design Principles No. 4 for the Everett Station Area in <br />Exhibit 1 to Ordinance No. 2853-05, (Everett Station Area Plan), which amended Exhibit A to <br />Ordinance No. 2021-94, as amended (Comprehensive Plan), and which currently reads as <br />follows: <br />4. Encourage transit -supportive development <br />The area surrounding the Everett Station can evolve or time into a dense compact district that is <br />friendly to pedestrians and bicyclists, is supportive of business. Some specific objectives are: <br />♦ Make multiple use of existing and new parking resources. <br />♦ Utilize vacant land for more intensive employee based business. <br />♦ Encourage in the areas north and west of the Everett Station area that currently allow <br />residential uses to develop high-density residential development to compliment Everett <br />Station and the businesses immediately surrounding the station area. <br />♦ Encourage uses within the station area, which have high visitor/employee densities. <br />♦ Discourage new uses within the station area that are auto -oriented uses and uses with low <br />employee densities such as vehicle storage and warehousing. <br />♦ Encourage a variety of scale in new development, ranging from two to five stories. <br />♦ Encourage street -level activity and pedestrian orientation especially those areas between the <br />station and downtown Everett. <br />♦ Minimize conflicts between Everett Event Center/commuter traffic and local traffic and <br />pedestrian activities. <br />♦ Maximize on street parking opportunities. <br />is hereby amended to read as follows: <br />4. Encourage transit -supportive development <br />The area surrounding the Everett Station can evolve or time into a dense compact district that is <br />friendly to pedestrians and bicyclists, is supportive of business. Some specific objectives are: <br />♦ Make multiple use of existing and new parking resources. <br />♦ Utilize vacant land for more intensive employee based business. <br />♦ Encourage in the areas north and west of the Everett Station area that currently allow <br />residential uses to develop high-density residential development to compliment Everett <br />Station and the businesses immediately surrounding the station area. <br />♦ Encourage uses within the station area, which have high visitor/employee densities. <br />♦ Discourage new uses within the station area that are auto -oriented uses and uses with low <br />employee densities such as vehicle storage and warehousing. <br />4 <br />