Ordinance 3454-15 with Exhibits A- C

EVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN 12. Continue to upgrade the City's treatment plant (EWPCF), stormwater and combined sewer systems to accommodate increased flows from more frequent extreme storm events while Green Storm Water Infrastructure improvements are made. 13. Monitor the impacts of storm events on flows in Everett's streams and implement projects that connect floodplains, increase stormwater storage capacity, and improve culverts to minimize flooding and improve habitat. 14. Expand precipitation monitoring and evaluation capabilities to enhance understanding of neighborhood -scale climate impacts. 15. Encourage private development to become more resilient by actions such as retrofitting existing developments with low impact development stormwater techniques, such as rain -gardens and other green storm water infrastructure methods. Goal 6.6 Funding Requirements Provide that high quality, well-maintained physical systems and facilities that serve the social, economic, cultural, safety and other needs of the community are available at the time of development to serve new growth. Objective 6.6.1 The City will, on a regular basis, review its planned capital expenditures to ensure that proposed expenditures are consistent with the current needs of the community. Policy 6.6.1 The City shall develop a coordinated fiscal management process that provides efficiency and flexibility in the equitable financing of needed public facilities and services. Policy 6.6.2 Within the limits of the legal structure, the City will seek to achieve equity with the distribution of capital costs. Policy 6.6.3 Requests for new capital facilities will be considered together with requests for maintenance, repair and staffing costs of existing capital investments. Policy 6.6.4 Encourage the use of long-range planning and capital improvement programming to set priorities and to determine economic capabilities for improving and expanding physical plant facilities. Policy 6.6.5 The City may extend sanitary sewer services in support of the Comprehensive Plan to unincorporated areas within the planning area, if those benefiting property owners will agree to sign a petition to annex their property at such time as the City may request. Policy 6.6.6 Functional Capital Improvements Plan: The City periodically approves capital improvement plans for water system improvements, sewer system improvements, storm drainage system improvements, park system improvements, and other City facility improvements. These planning efforts are based upon the priorities and policies of the Comprehensive Plan and are to be automatically incorporated into the Capital Facilities Element, as approved or amended by the City Council, as functional plans implementing the overall goals and policies of the Comprehensive Plan. CAPITAL FACILITIES ELEMENT 10