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111 EVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN HOUSING ELEMENT bVH-1 Preserve existing affordable housing tation, infrastructure, economic development, and serve it with transit. Promote develop- civic and cultural resources, education, I ment of institutional and financial mechanisms growth patterns, and governmental roles and to provide for affordable housing near all responsibilities. centers. I In February, 1993, the Snohomish County AH-1 Promote fair and equal access to Council adopted the Countywide Planning housing for all persons regardless of race, Policies as recommended by Snohomish color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, County Tomorrow. The Countywide Plan- age, national origin, family status, source of ning Policies replaced the Goals with more income or disability. detailed policies for housing. The Growth I Management Act requires all cities and the AH-2 Strengthen interjurisdictional efforts county's comprehensive plans to be consistent to ensure a fair, equitable and rational with the Countywide Planning Policies. The Idistribution of low-income, moderate income Housing Policies of the Countywide Planning and special needs housing throughout the Policies are stated as follows: region consistent with land use policies, Itransportation and employment locations. 1. Ensure that fair and equal access to Provide a diversity of housing types to meet housing is available to all persons regardless I the housing needs of all economic segments of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orien- ofthe population. tation, age, national origin, familial status, source of income, or disability. ill AH-3 Consider the economic implications of private and public regulations and practices so 2. Make adequate provisions for existing that the broader public benefit they serve is and projected housing needs of all economic I achieved with the least additional cost to segments of the county. housing. 3. Strengthen inter jurisdictional coopera- I AH-4 Promote interjurisdictional coopera- tive efforts to ensure an adequate supply of tive efforts, including land use incentives and housing is available to all economic segments funding commitments, to ensure that an of the county. I adequate supply of housing is available to all economic segments of the population. 4. Adopt and implement a fair share distribution of low-income and special needs ID. Snohomish County-Wide Planning housing so as to prevent further concentration Policies of such housing into only a few areas. The county and cities will collaborate in IIn 1990, the government agencies in formulating a methodology to assess existing Snohomish County adopted a series of and projected housing needs of the county's I county-wide goals for guiding planning decisions over the next twenty years. These population and a fair share housing allocation methodology. goals, referred to as "Snohomish County lb Tomorrow", address issues such as forestry 5. Each jurisdiction's comprehensive plan and agricultural lands, natural environment, housing element will specify which strategies rural land use, urban land use, parks and are available to attain the jurisdiction's fair Irecreation, open space, housing, transpor- share housing objectives. The jurisdictions I H-7