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EVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN <br />Other Port -owned properties are expected to redevelop within the planning horizon, including <br />industrial, commercial and recreational uses. <br />2. Transit Network <br />The public transit system serving Everett will become increasingly important for workers living <br />outside the city to commute to jobs in the city. The Swift Bus Rapid Transit route from Everett <br />Station south has been a very successful and important improvement. Additional transit service <br />and bus rapid transit routes are expected to improve commuter and citizen access to employment <br />and activities in Everett. Everett Station has been an important improvement for regional <br />transportation needs and the area around the station is planned for mixed use redevelopment <br />oriented to the station. This area should not be allowed to become merely a parking lot for <br />transit users. Economic development activities benefiting from proximity to the station are <br />encouraged in the station area. <br />3. Rail Systems for Commuters <br />The Sounder Commuter Rail started service between Everett, Mukilteo, Edmonds and Seattle <br />utilizing the BNSF existing tracks in 2003. This is an important service and needs to be <br />expanded as demand increases. Sound Transit 2 will bring Light Rail to Lynnwood by 2023 <br />and must be expanded to Everett within the planning horizon of this plan for Everett to <br />accommodate the Preferred Alternate population and jobs. <br />4. Air Travel <br />Paine Field is a county owned general aviation airport, serving general aviation needs, corporate <br />and business aviation, repair and refurbishing of large aircraft and the Boeing Plant operations. <br />Paine Field and the Southwest Everett sub -area were designated as a Regional Manufacturing / <br />Industrial Center in 2002. Everett supports passenger air service to Paine Field as a regional <br />alternative to Sea -Tac International Airport. <br />The Paine Field / Southwest Everett area can provide more industrial space related to aircraft <br />and aviation. Suitable infrastructure, utilities, plans, and zoning are already in place for <br />additional airport related industrial and commercial development to occur. <br />F. Land Availability <br />Everett can't increase jobs and a tax base significantly unless we have enough land and space <br />available to accommodate new economic activity. Aside from a healthy supply of industrial, <br />Everett is at a stage where there is very little undeveloped commercial land available for new <br />development. Most future commercial development will be in the form of redevelopment of <br />currently developed properties with higher density uses. Even with the undeveloped industrial <br />land inventory in Everett, it will be necessary for currently developed industrial land to be <br />redeveloped to accommodate the additional 50,000 jobs projected for Everett by 2035. <br />Everett City Council passed Resolution No. 6274 which reaffirmed the importance of Land Use <br />Policies calling for the preservation of industrial land in Southwest Everett for future economic <br />growth. The City will discourage conversion of industrial land to non -industrial uses in this <br />regionally recognized industrial area. <br />ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ELEMENT <br />