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EVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN • Public Facilities and Services. Ensure that those public facilities and services necessary to support development shall be adequate to serve the development at the time the development is available for occupancy and use without decreasing current service levels below locally established minimum standards. • Historic Preservation. Identify and encourage the preservation of lands, sites, and structures that have historical or archaeological significance. • The Shoreline Management Act. The goals and policies of the Shoreline Management Act are the 14th goal of the GMA. B. PSRC VISION 2020 Growth and Transportation Strategy; Multi-County Planning Policies The Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC) VISION 2020 Growth and Transportation Strategy was endorsed in 1990 by local governments in the central Puget Sound region, including Everett and its neighboring jurisdictions within Snohomish County. The strategy in PSRC VISION 2020 calls for a concentration of a large percentage of future employment and population growth into designated urban centers and linking the centers with a regional high capacity transit system. This strategy reinforces the goal of the GMA to contain sprawl and encourage development where public facilities and services exist or can be provided in an efficient manner. Amendments to the Growth Management Act in 1991 require the adoption of Multi-County Policies for King, Pierce and Snohomish counties. The PSRC VISION 2020 policies were modified and ratified as the Multi-County Policies in March 1993. In 1995, PSRC VISION 2020 was further amended to reinforce the vision as adopted public policy while incorporating appropriate work from local comprehensive plans, countywide planning policies, and regional and state transportation plans for the area. It contains policies and strategies that address the following key components: urban growth areas, contiguous and orderly development, regional capital facilities, housing, rural areas, open space, resource protection and critical areas, economics, and transportation. PSRC VISION 2020 provided a framework for the transportation planning and investment decisions that shaped Destination 2030, the Metropolitan Transportation Plan. Destination 2030, which was adopted in May 2001, meets the requirements of the Growth Management Act, Washington State regional transportation planning requirements set out in RCW 47.80, and federal transportation planning requirements. PSRC Vision 2020 supports a new order of compact, people-oriented living and working places, thereby reversing trends that have created low-density, auto-dependent communities. It limits the expansion of the urban area and focuses a significant amount of new employment and housing into about fifteen mixed-use centers that are served by a transportation investment strategy emphasizing transit. The PSRC Vision 2020 growth strategy envisions that the centers of employment and population will follow a hierarchy of central places. In this vision, Seattle will remain the regional center, while Bellevue, Everett, Bremerton, and Tacoma will be metropolitan centers. The central business districts of these centers are identified as places where new employment and residential growth is desirable, accompanied by increased investment in both transit and INTRODUCTION 3