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EVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN <br />Policy 8.4.7 Develop a system of pedestrian -friendly, convenient, attractive access to transit <br />with visually consistent transit shelters that incorporate landscaping and artwork with features <br />that reflect community character. <br />Potential Implementation Programs and Projects <br />1. Establish sidewalk, street tree and street furnishings standards which reflect the design <br />character of the community/neighborhood. <br />2. Maintain and expand the City's street/right-of-way tree planting program, including <br />regularly updating and maintaining the city's Recommended Tree List for various sized spaces <br />and environments.. <br />3. Develop a prototype gateway plan with design/construction guidelines that include <br />median spaces wide enough to let trees grow and be sustained in these artificial environments. <br />4. Adopt a waterfront pathway design that includes native plantings. <br />Continue development consistent with the Hewitt Avenue master plan. <br />6. Provide specially designed transit shelters with a consistent design theme. <br />7. Prepare a trails and sidewalk master plan on a neighborhood -by neighborhood basis. <br />8. Include information on pathway, trail and sidewalk systems in promotional and tourist <br />information. <br />E. Transitions and Edges <br />Goal 8.5 Produce greater compatibility between different land uses and between new and <br />existing development using landscaping or other appropriate design measures. <br />Objective 8.5.1 To ensure that multiple family uses incorporate site and building design and <br />landscaping features of single family characteristics to soften their impact where multiple family <br />development occurs near single family areas. <br />Objective 8.5.2 To ensure that the commercial use incorporates site and building design and <br />landscaping features to soften its visual and physical impact where commercial development <br />occurs near any residential area, and to ensure that it is a positive element in the nearby <br />neighborhood. <br />Objective 8.5.3 To require new development that is next to a designated historic building to <br />reflect a sensitivity to the height, mass, proportion, and design characteristics of the older <br />structure. <br />URBAN DESIGN AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION ELEMENT 15 <br />