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EVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN Table 7: 2025 Employment Capacity and Targets Based on Comprehensive Plan Adopted by Snohomish County in December, 2005 2000 Target Adopted Additional Capacity Using Employment by Sno. County Capacity Needed Snohomish (In Target to Meet Target County's Adopted Reconciliation Comprehensive Process) Plan City Limits 81,986 130,340 48,354 48,354 UGA 5,030 6,520 1,490 1,519 Total 87,016 136,860 49,844 49,873 Based on this analysis, Everett's has more than sufficient population and employment capacity within the City limits to meet the adopted target for the City limits. Everett's 2005 plan does not meet the County's adopted targets within the UGA, but does provide sufficient capacity within the entire planning area to meet the combined targets. 2. Consistency with Snohomish County Tomorrow Population and Employment Allocations. Counties and cities must ensure, that taken collectively, comprehensive plans and development regulations provide sufficient capacity of land suitable to accommodate the housing and employment growth, as adopted in the applicable countywide planning policies and consistent with the 20-year population forecast from the Office of Financial Management. Snohomish County Tomorrow developed draft target ranges for population and employment and invited each jurisdiction to comment. In 2003, Planning Commission and City Council adopted preliminary targets and relayed that information to Snohomish County Tomorrow. The City adopted the low end of the range for population and the high end of the range for employment. Subsequently, Everett reduced the size of the Planning Area, and also reduced the targets. However Snohomish County Tomorrow adopted a preliminary target that was higher than Everett proposed for the unincorporated portion of Everett's Planning Area Snohomish County Countywide Planning Policy UG-2 requires that a target reconciliation process be completed to address inconsistencies between the targets adopted by the cities and the County to ensure that overall, sufficient capacity exists to accommodate expected population and employment growth. In December 2006, Snohomish County completed Step 4 of the target reconciliation process, by adopting targets that were incorporated into Appendix B of the Countywide Planning Policies. The targets adopted for Everett's UGA were based on the County's 2005 Comprehensive Plan for the UGA and are shown in Tables 5 and 7 above. In March 2007, Everett amended this Comprehensive Plan to incorporate the County's targets for the unincorporated planning area as shown below: LAND USE ELEMENT 13