Ordinance 3454-15 with Exhibits A- C

EVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN Policy 6.9.1 Integrate the general location and capacity of existing and future utility facilities with the Land Use Element of the Comprehensive Plan. Policy 6.9.2 Encourage provision of efficient, cost effective and reliable utility service by ensuring that land will be made available for the location of utilities, including location within transportation corridors. Policy 6.9.3 Formulate, interpret and apply land development regulations so as to allow the timely development of utility additions and improvements. Policy 6.9.4 The location of utilities within residentially zoned areas shall be planned to protect the residential neighborhoods adjoining the areas from unnecessary impacts associated with facility development. Policy 6.9.5 Promote consistency and cooperation regarding the provision of utilities between the City Comprehensive Plan and the plans of adjacent and affected jurisdictions. This shall take place as other jurisdictions complete their planning processes and, periodically throughout the years, as plans are updated. Policy 6.9.6 Promote connections and extensions of utilities between adjoining jurisdictions to establish a complete network of utilities within the urban area. Goal 6.10 Environmental Consideration Facilitate the provision of utilities while ensuring environmentally sensitive, safe and reliable service that is visually compatible with the surrounding land uses and results in reasonable economic costs. Objective 6.10.1 All utilities expansion and construction shall consider the environment and ways to minimize impacts to it in siting, construction and use. Policy 6.10.1 When adverse impacts to the environment are considered likely as a result of a utility project, the City shall use a preferred order of mitigation (i.e., avoid, minimize, rectify, reduce over time and compensate). Policy 6.10.2 In providing utilities, the City should minimize the impact on residential areas from incompatible land uses. Policy 6.10.3 Utilities development and improvement shall be compatible with the natural constraints of slope, soil, geology, vegetation, wildlife habitat and drainage. Policy 6.10.4 Utility facilities shall be designed, constructed and used in a manner that minimizes visual incompatibility with adjacent land uses. Policy 6.10.5 Utility facilities for new developments shall be designed and constructed in a manner that does not conflict with development requirements, such as landscaping standards. CAPITAL FACILITIES ELEMENT 38