2019/04/03 Council Agenda Packet

- _ to =te=e a-Felatively law number of users. Certain types of infrastructure, especially high capacity transit facilities,arc financially feasible only in areas of dense redevelopment lower density neighborhoods so highly valued by residents of the community. 4. Encouraging compact higher density redevelopment within the City allows protection of critical areas as well as rural and resource lands outside of urban areas,without dccr asing the overall quantity of development permitted. Transportation corridors offer opportunities to reinforce a concentrated and efficient future development pattern. Within the Everett Planning Area,many of these corridors are comprised of a mix of land uses,which include commercial,office,services,institutional,and residential development. Transportation corridors are intended to provide medium to high intensity areas of mixed-use infill and redevelopment. The levels of intensity projected for the transportation corridors arc clarified as either high inten,ity or medium intensity. • Within the high intensity transportation corridors,land use intensities significantly higher than those of adjacent neighborhoods arc permitted. High intensities in these or as,which arc already characterized by high volumes of traffic and commercial activity,are preferred to the conversion of residential areas for commercial uses. The high levels of transportation service support the permitted development intensity within these corridors. These levels es"high intensity"transportation corridors: • Broadway,north of 41st Street • Evergreen Way,south from 41st Street to Gibson Road • Everett Mall Way,from southbound 15 off ramp to Evergreen Way • 128 Street/Airport Road between Interstate s and Evergreen Way The medium intensity transportation corridors arc intended to provide for a mix of uses compatible with the are not intended to significantly change the established character of the area. These areas arc expected to except within transit oriented mixed use buildings. By doing so,a significant portion of the future housing needs permitted development intensity within these-corridors is supported by the high levels of transportation service. designated as"medium intensity"transportation corridors: . • 19th Avenue SE between 112th Street SE and 132nd Street SE • 128th13.3znd Street corridor,_egst of Interstates(only thenorth side of this corridor is within thcEverett Planning Area) • 112th Street,from Airport Road to 19th Avenue SE Arterial corridors that are not designated as transportation corridors shall be permitted to be developed as - _ _ -- . _ - - _ _ _ _ 'ons. The neighborhoods along the arterial corridors that arc not designated as transportation corridors arc intended to remain in zoning districts that allow a mix of uses. F.G. TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM The Vision 2040 Regional Growth Strategy endorses the concept of concentrated housing and employment growth in regionally designated centers,including Everett,connected by regional high capacity transit. Everett is as..uming that the light rail transit system will be built early enough in the planning period to allow for significant redevelopment around light rail stations prior to 2035. Figure 1 identifies a preferred conceptual alignment for the light rail system and light rail stations within the city limits. This addition to the regional transportation system is LAND USE ELEMENT,2019 Amendment 13 Exhibit 1 -Page 13 79