Ordinance 3454-15 with Exhibits A- C

EVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN allow. Occasionally, there will be a re-evaluation and change to policies, actions and measures stated in the plan as the community's priorities and values change. The City shall maintain the discretion to determine how the policies of the plan are to be interpreted and implemented. The comprehensive plan shall not commit the City to actions that are not fiscally sustainable over time. IV. Countywide Population and Employment Target Reconciliation Process The Growth Management Act requires that the State Office of Financial Management (OFM) dictate a population range for which counties must plan. There is no procedure in the Act for allocating population or employment to smaller sub areas of the county, but it gives each county's legislative body the responsibility to set the population level for each city. There is no requirement in GMA for establishment of a prescribed employment level. In Snohomish County, the process for allocating growth among cities and unincorporated areas of the county is spelled out in the Countywide Planning Policies. Initial growth targets were adopted by the County Council for guidance by each jurisdiction in updating their plans. If the jurisdictions within the county adopt different growth targets than the initial growth targets, the CPP's provide for a growth target reconciliation process. This process could result in changes to the growth targets stated above in Section II.B.5. V. Geographic Extent of the Comprehensive Plan A. Everett Planning Area - The Future City Limits? Everett's "planning area" includes not only all lands within the present city limits, but also extends to areas that are presently unincorporated and for which Snohomish County has the responsibility for planning and land use permit administration. Unincorporated areas that have been identified for potential annexation to cities are identified in the CPPs as Municipal Urban Growth Areas (MUGAs). These are areas that may be annexed to the city within the current twenty-year horizon of the comprehensive plan. Goals #1 and #2 of the Growth Management Act require that urban growth areas be designated in each county, within which future urban growth would be encouraged and outside of which primarily only rural uses would be permitted. The Everett Planning Area boundaries are entirely within the Urban Growth Area boundaries adopted by Snohomish County. B. Outside the Everett Planning Area Outside of the proposed Everett Planning Area boundaries are the MUGAs for the cities of Mukilteo, Lynnwood and Mill Creek to the south, Marysville to the north, and an urban area to the southeast of Everett not yet claimed by any existing municipality as being within its planning or growth area (Silver Firs MUGA Gap Area). This unclaimed area is served indirectly by the Everett water and sewer system, through the Silver Lake Water District. While Everett has INTRODUCTION 13