Ordinance 3454-15 with Exhibits A- C

EVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN Policy 2.4.12 Promote a pedestrian -oriented environment encouraging uses and providing facilities that enhance the streetscape, such as retail and restaurant uses along the commercial street frontages, open space plazas and parks, street trees, street lighting and benches to reinforce safety and convenience for pedestrians. Policy 2.4.13 The following streets are designated as gateway corridors for the center, and the City shall give priority to the design and development of transportation and visual improvements in these corridors in order to encourage and stimulate redevelopment: Hewitt Avenue, North Broadway, Broadway, Everett Avenue, Pacific Avenue, Colby Avenue (south of 19th Street), Rucker Avenue (south of 19`h Street), and West Marine View Drive Policy 2.4.14 Adult use businesses, as defined by the Zoning Code, are considered compatible with the commercial land use designations within the center, as designated on the Land Use Map, provided that they meet the location criteria of the Zoning Code. If this policy is inconsistent with any other policy, then this policy shall control. 2.5 Hospital and Clinic Land Use Policies Hospitals and many clinics in Everett have located in residential areas either prior to any zoning regulations or under previous zoning codes. While providing many benefits to the community, these medical related land uses have also had impacts upon the residential areas in which they have located, including increased traffic and parking congestion, escalating land costs, and elimination of housing stock. The policies of the Land Use Element allow for the continued development, expansion and operation of hospitals and clinics within those residentially zoned areas currently designated for hospitals, clinics and medical related uses on the Land Use Map, and protect from further encroachment the residential neighborhoods adjoining the areas where these medical related land uses are located. Policy 2.5.1 Protect established residential neighborhoods from further encroachment by hospitals, clinics and other related medical activities and limit such uses to commercially zoned areas and to those residentially zoned areas where such uses are already well established and designated by the Land Use Map. (See Policy 2.11.4) Policy 2.5.2 Confine medical clinics presently located in residential areas to compact configurations developed intensively rather than allowing them to sprawl into neighborhoods and eliminate existing housing stock. Policy 2.5.3 Require development, expansion and remodeling of hospital and clinic facilities to be visually compatible with and minimize the parking and traffic impacts upon established residential areas. Policy 2.5.4 Allow hospital expansion in residential zones only through the establishment or amendment of an Institutional Overlay Zone master plan. LAND USE ELEMENT 29