Ordinance 3666-19 - Laserfiche WebLink

i. Public Facilities. The Land Use Inventory has not included"public facilities"as a separate land use category. - _ _ -- - -- ... - ' - - -- , --• - - , - - , • - - , , -- , - .. utilities,the need for public facilities is driven by the location and levels of development authorized by comprehensive plans. While some public facilities arc large enough to be designated on a land use map,s, eh as parks,others such as fire stations or libraries arc not large enough to identify as a separate category of land use. The Land Use Element policies contain criteria for the siting and land use compatibility of various types of public facilities. j. "Other"Land Uses. Included in this category would be"hard to site"facilities such as hospitals,colleges, importance,which the GMA calls"essential public facilities." Most of these arc public facilities that should be addre-sed in the capital facilities elements of various governmental agency comprehensive plans. college with a university center for a consortium of college upper division classes and programs(and will soon have a building for Washington State University program classes),a private college in downtown, numerous living quarters. The Land Use Element contains policies promoting land use compatibility for"hard to site facilities." • B. HOLDING CAPACITY/BUILDABLE LANDS ANALYSIS Buildable ands ^nalysis. The Growth Management Act requires that Snohomish County counties to complete a review and evaluation program("buildable lands")to determine whether a county and its cities are achieving urban densities within urban areas and identify reasonable measures,other than adjusting urban growth areas, that will be taken to comply with GMA. every 5 years to determine if sufficient land is available to accommodate the adopted population and employment targets. The analysis must be based on actual densities of housing that have been constructed and the actual amount of land developed for commercial and industrial uses. In 2012 Snohomish County Tomorrow completed a Buildable Lands Program update to determine if sufficient land capacity existed to accommodate the 2025 population and employment growth targets of Snohomish County and cities within the county. The analysis assumed that most future projects would be at a similar density as developments constructed from zoos to 2010,rather than the higher densities allowed by the zoning code. The report concluded that sufficient land was available to accommodate Everett's 2025 population and employment targets within Everett and Snohomish County's collective overall growth targets within Snohomish County. The buildable lands data was used as the starting point in developing the alternatives for the 2015 to 203510 year update to the Comprehensive Plan. The City modified the assumptions used in the Buildable Lands analysis to project more likely development densities that would result from the redevelopment called for by Everett's growth strategy between 2015 and 2035. A description of the assumptions and methodology used to develop the three plan alternatives is contained in the Background Report for 2015 Update to the City of Everett Comprehensive Plan, September 2014. The next Buildable Lands Report is scheduled to be completed in 2021,with the city required to review and update the comprehensive plan by 2023. 1. Population and Employment Capacities for 2015 Comprehensive Plan Update Three alternatives were evaluated for the 10-Year Comprehensive Plan Update._ Population assumptions for Alternative 3,Existing Plan Extended,were based on the Buildable Lands data,which assumes development redevelopment of more parcels and construction of higher density multiple family housing,primarily around the densi redevelopment near downtown, Everett Station,arterial corridors and other areas,than Altern ivy. LAND USE ELEMENT, 2019 Amendment 7 Exhibit 1 -Page 7