Ordinance 3454-15 with Exhibits A- C

EVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN d. The land use plans of other cities, Snohomish County, and tribal governments must also be consistent with adopted regional growth plans and must not create an imbalance in the supply of available land for future urban development that would shift a greater proportion of growth away from Everett. e. Regional and WSDOT investment in transportation capacity must support workforce commute travel from areas located north and east of Everett to employment centers in Everett. If all of these factors occur in a manner that maximizes market attraction to growth opportunities in Everett, the City can live up to the growth expectations of Vision 2040 and Alternative 1. If they do not, Everett will still comply with GMA and Vision 2040 by providing sufficient growth capacity for the Alternative 1 growth targets. However, if the region's growth aspirations for Everett are not realized, the extent to which the market instead chooses to direct growth to other areas will require re-examination of the Vision 2040 regional growth strategy. 6. Conditional Growth Targets. The comprehensive plan identifies sufficient land use capacity to accommodate the Vision 2040 growth guidance and County Council adopted growth targets (population capacity exceeding 164,812; employment capacity exceeding 140,000). However, Everett believes it is more realistic to assume that not all factors necessary for the regional economy to support unprecedented demand for high density development in Everett, as stated above in Paragraph 4, will align to the extent that the RGS guidance for growth targets for 2035 will be realized. Therefore, Everett selects Alternative 2 as the 2035 default growth targets for the current (2015) city limits in the event that these factors are not realized: Conditional 2035 Growth Targets Population - 165,000 Housing - 73,016 Employment - 140,000 Default 2035 Growth Targets Population - 143,000 Housing - 64,716 Employment - 140,000 The default targets are realistic and achievable, but lower than the guidance of the Vision 2040 Regional Growth Strategy, and of the Growth Targets adopted by the Snohomish County Council, given the land capacity that exists in other jurisdictions in Snohomish County. 7. Housing growth in Everett will be principally in the form of multiple family dwellings in redevelopment areas, including the following specific mixed use areas: a. Downtown b. Everett Station area c. Broadway north of 41St Street d. Everett Community College / Washington State University special study area e. Riverfront f. Port of Everett central waterfront g. Evergreen Way h. Other arterial corridors i. Transit corridors and future light rail station areas INTRODUCTION