Ordinance 3454-15 with Exhibits A- C

EVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN encourage growth in areas experiencing insufficient economic growth, all within the capacities of the state's natural resources, public services, and public facilities. • Property Rights. Private property shall not be taken for public use without just compensation having been made. The property rights of the landowners shall be protected from arbitrary and discriminatory actions. • Permits. Applications for both state and local government permits should be processed in a timely and fair manner to ensure predictability. • Natural Resource Industries. Maintain and enhance natural resource-based industries, including productive timber, agricultural, and fisheries industries. Encourage the conservation of productive forest lands and productive agricultural lands, and discourage incompatible uses. • Open Space and Recreation. Retain open space, enhance recreational opportunities, conserve fish and wildlife habitat, increase access to natural resource lands and water, and develop parks and recreation facilities. • Environment. Protect the environment and enhance the state's high quality of life, including air and water quality, and the availability of water. • Citizen Participation and Coordination. Encourage the involvement of citizens in the planning process and ensure coordination between communities and jurisdictions to reconcile conflicts. • Public Facilities and Services. Ensure that those public facilities and services necessary to support development shall be adequate to serve the development at the time the development is available for occupancy and use without decreasing current service levels below locally established minimum standards. • Historic Preservation. Identify and encourage the preservation of lands, sites, and structures that have historical or archaeological significance. • The Shoreline Management Act. The goals and policies of the Shoreline Management Act are the 14`" goal of the GMA. 2. PSRC VISION 2040 Regional Growth Strategy; Multi -County Planning Policies The Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC) VISION 2040 Regional Growth Strategy was adopted in 2008 by local governments in the central Puget Sound region as an update to the previous Vision 2020 regional growth plan. The strategy in VISION 2040 calls for concentrating a large percentage of future employment and population growth into metropolitan cities, including Everett, and other growth centers, and linking the centers with a regional high capacity transit system. This strategy reinforces the goal of the GMA to contain sprawl and encourage development where public facilities and services exist or can be provided in an efficient manner. The Vision 2040 regional growth strategy established population and job growth "guidance" for the metropolitan cities of Seattle, Bellevue, Everett, Bremerton, and Tacoma. These cities are identified as urban centers where significant employment and residential growth is desirable, accompanied by increased investment in regional light rail transit (except in Bremerton). The City proposed three alternative sets of growth targets for consideration in the 2015 update of the comprehensive plan, including the Vision 2040 -based targets, and two lower growth alternatives. INTRODUCTION