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EVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN <br />Following completion of the study, the City Council passed Resolution No. 6057 supporting <br />scheduled commercial air service at Paine Field and directing City staff to pursue all reasonable <br />efforts to encourage and facilitate the development of commercial aviation at Paine Field. In <br />2012, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued an environmental determination <br />concluding that the establishment of commercial air service by two airlines with approximately <br />160 flights per week would not have a significant impact on the environment. This <br />determination has been challenged in federal court and a decision on the appeal is not likely to be <br />made before the City takes action to adopt the 2015 comprehensive plan update. <br />The policies contained herein address the need to protect Paine Field from the encroachment <br />from incompatible land uses: <br />a) Protect the viability of the airport as an essential public facility and a significant economic <br />resource to the community by encouraging compatible land uses and reducing hazards that may <br />endanger aviation users. <br />b) Evaluate all proposed amendments to the comprehensive plan, capital facilities plan and <br />urban growth area that will increase incompatible land uses or the potential of incompatible <br />development adjacent to the airport through inappropriate land use or zoning designations or <br />inadvertent land use policies. <br />c) Within the Airport Influence Area (see Figure 5), a notice to title/disclosure statement <br />should be required for new or substantial redevelopment of lots, buildings, structures and <br />activities. The notice should indicate that the property is located near the airport and may <br />experience low overhead flights, odor, vibrations, noise and other similar aviation impacts. <br />d) Discourage the siting of uses within the Airport Influence Area that attract birds, create <br />visual hazards, discharge any particulate matter in the air that could alter atmospheric conditions, <br />emit transmissions that would interfere with aviation communications and instrument landing <br />systems, or otherwise obstruct or conflict with aircraft patterns, or result in potential hazards to <br />aviation. <br />e) Require proof of an airspace analysis before issuing permits for projects within the filing <br />criteria (within 20,000 feet of airport runways) within Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR) Part <br />77. <br />f) Identify, preserve, and enhance, through inter jurisdictional planning, goals, policies and <br />development regulations that promote significant regional transportation linkages and <br />multimodal connections to and from aviation facilities and employment centers. <br />g) Encourage economic development opportunities and aviation related uses adjacent to <br />airports and promote the efficient mobility of goods and services region -wide consistent with the <br />economic development element and the regional transportation strategy. <br />LAND USE ELEMENT 43 <br />