Ordinance 3616-18 - Laserfiche WebLink

WHEREAS,the Metro Everett Subarea Plan includes new goals, policies and actions for the area, including new provisions for off-street parking; and WHEREAS,the Growth Management Act (RCW 36.70A.130(1)(d)) requires the city to adopt development regulations that are consistent with and implement the comprehensive plan, including subarea plans; and WHEREAS,the Metro Everett Subarea Plan includes a policy to "[e]stablish off-street parking requirements based on areas" identified in a new map (LU-8 and Figure 12); and WHEREAS,the Metro Everett Subarea Plan includes a policy to "[r]educe off-street parking requirements for new development" in order to catalyze redevelopment in Everett Station (LU-14); and WHEREAS,the Metro Everett Subarea Plan includes a policy to require transportation demand management(TDM) measures "for development receiving...parking reductions" (T-13); and WHEREAS,the Metro Everett Subarea Plan includes a policy to "[r]educe parking requirements...in order to encourage increase in other transportation modes, such as transit, rail, bikes and walking" (T-16); and WHEREAS,the Metro Everett Subarea Plan includes a policy to have "[p]arking requirements for new development or redevelopment...reflect geographic-based conditions" (T-31); and WHEREAS,the Metro Everett Subarea Plan includes a policy to "[c]reate parking standards for residential development that reflect...factors that influence parking demand" (T-32), such as size of housing units, resident characteristics and development characteristics; and WHEREAS,the Metro Everett Subarea Plan includes a policy to "[a]llow adjustment to required parking through innovative measures" (T-33), such as substitution of parking stalls for other transportation modes or shared parking; and WHEREAS, the Everett Comprehensive Plan includes policies to encourage complementary land uses that can share parking (2.19.1), parking management strategies that reduce the amount of land used for parking and reduction of parking standards for businesses that implement such strategies (2.19.2), reducing minimum requirements where appropriate (2.19.3), amending the zoning code to require bicycle parking(2.19.4); and WHEREAS, the Planning Commission conducted public briefings on March 7, 2017 and May 15, 2018, to discuss and consider proposed new off-street parking standards and development regulations; and WHEREAS, the City held public open houses on June 13, 2017 and April 28, 2018 to present and solicit public comment on existing and proposed off-street parking standards and development regulations; and WHEREAS, public notice and opportunity to comment on these amendments was provided through electronic and mail notice to interested parties, a legal notice of public hearing published in the Everett Ch.34,Off-Street Parking,Loading and Access 2 8/29/18