Ordinance 3454-15 with Exhibits A- C

EVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN need not be identified on the Land Use Map, facilities, rights-of-way, or easements that consume large areas of land should be identified. Additionally, the Land Use Element contains policies related to the siting and land use compatibility of public utility facilities. i. Public Facilities. The Land Use Inventory has not included "public facilities" as a separate land use category. Included under the term "public facilities" are schools, civic buildings, libraries, fire stations, parks, courts, sewage treatment plants, and other buildings and uses reserved for public services and administration. Like public utilities, the need for public facilities is driven by the location and levels of development authorized by comprehensive plans. While some public facilities are large enough to be designated on a land use map, such as parks, others such as fire stations or libraries are not large enough to identify as a separate category of land use. The Land Use Element policies contain criteria for the siting and land use compatibility of various types of public facilities. j. "Other" Land Uses. Included in this category would be "hard to site" facilities such as hospitals, colleges, correctional facilities, transportation facilities, social services, military installations, and other facilities of regional importance, which the GMA calls "essential public facilities." Most of these are public facilities that should be addressed in the capital facilities elements of various governmental agency comprehensive plans. The Everett Planning Area has one hospital with two campuses, several correctional facilities, a community college with a university center for a consortium of college upper division classes and programs (and will soon have a building for Washington State University program classes), a private college in downtown, numerous governmental offices and facilities, and other institutional uses such as churches, convalescent homes, and group living quarters. The Land Use Element contains policies promoting land use compatibility for "hard to site facilities." B. Holding Capacity/Buildable Lands Analysis Buildable Lands Analysis. The Growth Management Act requires that counties complete a review and evaluation program every 5 years to determine if sufficient land is available to accommodate the adopted population and employment targets. The analysis must be based on actual densities of housing that have been constructed and the actual amount of land developed for commercial and industrial uses. In 2012 Snohomish County Tomorrow completed a Buildable Lands Program update to determine if sufficient land capacity existed to accommodate the 2025 population and employment growth targets of Snohomish County and cities within the county. The analysis assumed that most future projects would be at a similar density as developments constructed from —2005 to 2010, rather than the higher densities allowed by the zoning code. The report concluded that sufficient land was available to accommodate Everett's 2025 population and employment targets within Everett and Snohomish County's collective overall growth targets within Snohomish County. The buildable lands data was used as the starting point in developing the alternatives for the 2015 to 2035 10 -year update to the Comprehensive Plan. The City modified the assumptions used in the Buildable Lands analysis to project more likely development densities that would result from the redevelopment called for by Everett's growth strategy between 2015 and 2035. A description of the assumptions and methodology used to develop the three plan alternatives is LAND USE ELEMENT