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Consistent with the Vision 2040 Regional Growth Strategy,the area identified on Figure 2 is considered the regionally designated Everett growth center/ Metropolitan Center.This area comprises areas in which the City has previously developed the Everett Station Arca Plan (2005), Downtown Plan (2006), Broadway Mixed Use Zone (2008) and the Core Residential Area Standards(2008) Metro Everett Plan (2018).The City will complete a subarea plan for the center after the 2015 update of the Comprehensive Plan. The Center Metro Everett Plan v4I- addresses population, housing and employment targets, policies and potential land use regulations for the area, as well as all other relevant items consistent with the PSRC Regional Center Plans Checklist. It will be incorporated into the Comprehensive Plan in a future docket cycle. Until the center plan is completed after 2015,the planning documents identified above will guide development in the area.The City will consider completing up front State Environmental Policy Act(SEPA) review for the expanded Metropolitan Center to encourage compact, high density development. Footnote 1 The Planned Action provisions of SEPA result in expedited review at the project state when the City completes a Subarea Plan and Environmental Impact Statement addressing the impacts of future development The Metro Everett Metropolitan Center area is expected to experience significant growth and redevelopment. Although the Center area has been called out as a land use designation under the commercial land use policies, it is and will continue to be a mixed-use district. The Metropolitan Center Everett-policies encourage (i) redevelopment with a wide variety of office, governmental, retail, professional service, and residential uses; (ii) a vibrant, people-oriented, compact and walkable setting; (iii) an emphasis on increasing the residential composition of the center and (iv) improving the public transportation system serving the center. As an interim measure before the adoption of the subarea with the adoption of the comprehensive plan update,to add multi family housing as a permitted use, and to incr ase the permitted building height from 65 feet to 80 feet to encourage transit oriented redevelopment. Until the City adopts the Center plan,the following policies and existing zoning decisions for the arca. V. LAND USE MAP D. LAND USE DESIGNATIONS— LOCATIONAL CRITERIA The land use categories described herein have been designated on the Land Use Map. The following criteria have been used in applying the various land use designations on the Land Use Map. These criteria shall be used in evaluating future changes to land use designations, in concert with the criteria contained in Section R.3 for Amending the Land Use Map, and the land use policies contained in Section 0. 4. High Density Multiple Family Residential. ("1.7" and "1.8" on the Land Use Map.) This designation is applied to residentially zoned areas within and surrounding the Central Busine District, Metro Everett area, near transit stations and transit corridors. ... 10. Clinic and Medical Related Activities, Multiple Family. (2.5, 2.6 and 2.7 on the Land Use Map.)...12.Central Business District Urban Mixed. (3.1 on the Land Use Map.)This designation is applied to Metro Everett's Central Business District and surrounding commercially zoned areas... Exhibit 1 Comprehensive Plan Amendments August 29,2018 3