Ordinance 3454-15 with Exhibits A- C

ORDINANCE NO. 3454-15 AN ORDINANCE Adopting the 2015-2035 Comprehensive Plan Update, Amending Ordinance No. 2021-94, as Amended WHEREAS, RCW 36.70A.130 (5) requires that cities in Snohomish County take action on or before June 30, 2015 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; and WHEREAS, on June 24, 2015, City Council adopted Resolution No. 6872 concluding that the City had completed a great majority of the substantive steps necessary to complete the 2015 update and establishing a schedule for adoption of the Comprehensive Plan update and related regulations by October 28, 2015 provided that the schedule is subject to change as necessary to ensure public review and comment and thorough review by the City Council; and WHEREAS, the update must include review and, if needed, revision to policies and regulations regarding critical areas and natural resource lands and the population allocated to the city from the most recent ten-year population forecast by the office of financial management; and WHEREAS, the Comprehensive Plan Update, Williams map amendment and rezone, Draft Environmental Impact Statement and related regulations were submitted to the Washington Department of Commerce for 60 -day review on July 17, 2015 in accordance with RCW 36.70A.106; and WHEREAS, the Growth Management Act and RCW 47.80.023 requires that the Puget Sound Regional Council formally certify countywide planning policies and local comprehensive plan transportation provisions as being consistent with the regional transportation plan, with regionally established guidelines and policies, and with Growth Management Act requirements for transportation planning; and WHEREAS, the Comprehensive Plan must be consistent with the VISION 2040 regional growth strategy and multi -county planning policies, and the Snohomish County Countywide Planning Policies required by RCW 36.70A.210; and WHEREAS, following a public involvement process that included issuance of a Determination of Significance and scoping for an environmental impact statement on the update, on December 18, 2013 City Council approved Resolution No. 6685 adopting a Comprehensive Plan Audit and Public Involvement Plan for the update in accordance with RCW 36.70A.130(2); and