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EVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN <br />19. Address safety issues in areas where high density growth is encouraged by the Land Use <br />Element to encourage investment in these areas. <br />20. Form Local Improvement Districts to construct utilities where localized sewer and water <br />line deficiencies are inhibiting redevelopment. <br />B. Measures Related to the Land Use Element <br />Encourage development in strip commercial areas to provide a mix of housing. <br />2. Evaluate potential reductions in off-street parking requirements in mixed use <br />developments and areas well -served by transit service. <br />3. For large areas (over 10 acres), require a mix of lot sizes and dwelling types to provide <br />more variety in housing types. <br />4. Provide density incentives in return for affordable owner -occupied housing. <br />5. Provide density incentives in return for affordable rental housing. <br />6. Allow innovative subdivision techniques in single family zones that increase single <br />family densities and affordability over conventional platting standards. <br />7. Modify lot size and width requirements to encourage a variety of dwelling sizes and <br />avoid the visual monotony of "cookie cutter" developments. <br />8. Allow rear yard "infill dwellings" in single-family zones where alley access is available. <br />9. Consider inclusionary zoning requirements that require a minimum percentage of <br />dwellings within new developments to be permanently reserved for low and moderate -income <br />housing. <br />10. Require minimum, as well as maximum, densities within residential zone districts. <br />11. Use performance based standards instead of maximum density standards for evaluating <br />higher density housing developments. Base approval of such developments on whether they <br />meet neighborhood compatibility standards and affordable housing objectives. <br />12. Participate in affordable housing demonstration projects in which the City will negotiate <br />development standards and code requirements with developers interested in constructing a <br />variety of affordable housing units. <br />13. Identify zones within the city suitable for the placement of emergency shelter facilities. <br />14. Identify zones within the city suitable for the placement of elderly housing, assisted <br />living facilities, congregate care homes, and skilled nursing facilities and adopt standards for the <br />development of such housing. <br />HOUSING ELEMENT 33 <br />