Ordinance 2978-07 - Laserfiche WebLink

EVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN neighborhoods, and creates transit oriented mixed use commercial and residential activity centers. The extent to which transportation facilities that reinforce the land use goals are provided will play the most important role in shaping the future physical form of the community. 2. Housing The GMA requires the Housing Element to identify sufficient land for government assisted housing, low income family housing, manufactured housing, multifamily housing, group homes and foster care facilities. The Land Use Element must address the above housing issues, as well as identify sufficient land designated to be developed at sufficient densities to accommodate the housing required for the anticipated 2025 population for the Everett Planning Area. The Land Use Element must describe the changes necessary to meet the goals of the Housing Element. 3. Capital Facilities (including Parks) and Utilities Everett's Comprehensive Plan combines the required Capital Facilities Element and Utilities Element into one Chapter. Capital facilities include those public lands and buildings needed to provide public services. While the comprehensive plan has a separate Parks and Recreation Element, the GMA requires that park lands and recreation buildings be included in the inventory of capital facilities. The Capital Facilities Element is essentially a financial plan describing how local governments will pay for public facilities at the levels of service desired by the community. Increases in projected population and employment growth will require greater levels of investment in public services, more land area, and more buildings in which to locate the public services than were provided for by the previous plans. While more land is needed for public services, the higher population and employment projections will also increase the demand for other land uses. The private sector will compete directly with local governments for acquisition of urban lands. A limited supply of urban land and increased competition for urban land uses may drive up the cost of land for public purposes. The amount of land required for public services within the Everett Planning Area must be determined by the Capital Facilities Element, and provided for by the land use designations of the Land Use Element. While the private sector will finance and build most of the development envisioned by the comprehensive plan, much of the infrastructure and all of the public services within Everett must be provided by local government. Infrastructure improvements will likely be funded by a combination of private sector, local government, and state and federal funding. The Capital Facilities Element identifies desired levels of public services, the costs of providing services to the desired levels, and the amount of land and building space required to provide public services. This category includes such services and facilities as schools, fire stations, water supply and sewage treatment facilities, libraries, parks, and other general purpose government buildings. The Capital Facilities Element must provide a realistic plan for financing costs of land acquisition and construction of the all capital facilities needed to provide public services for all of the activities encouraged by the Land Use Element. The Land Use Element, in turn, must designate sufficient land areas for the various types of public service uses identified by the Capital Facilities Element. The level of land use activity supported by the Land Use Element is dependent upon the ability of the City to pay for the public services and facilities required to LAND USE ELEMENT 3