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EVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN <br /> HOUSING ELEMENT <br /> lowill consider as appropriate the strategies for 10. Ensure consistent application of county- <br /> achieving affordable housing presented in wide housing planning policies by adopting <br /> I "The Report of the Partnership for <br /> Tomorrow's Low Cost Housing Oppor- definitions of affordable housing, very low- <br /> income housing, low income housing, <br /> tunities Subcommittee" (May 1992) and the moderate income housing, and middle income <br /> I Residential Development Handbook for housing as established and periodically revised <br /> Snohomish County Communities (March by the Department of Housing and Urban <br /> 1992). Development. The following definition of <br /> I special needs housing shall be adopted: <br /> 6. Production of an adequate supply of low <br /> and moderate income housing will be Affordable housing for persons that require <br /> Iencouraged by exploring the establishment of special assistance or supportive care to subsist <br /> inter jurisdictional private/public financing or achieve independent living, including but <br /> programs which involve local lenders. no limited to persons that are frail elderly, <br /> Idevelopmentally disabled, chronically mentally <br /> 7. Ensure that adequate affordable housing ill, physically handicapped, homeless, persons <br /> is available in designated urban growth areas participating in substance abuse programs, <br /> Iby adopting land use and density incentives persons with AIDS, and youth at risk. <br /> and in rural areas by means of cluster housing <br /> I that minimizes infrastructure costs. 11. Adopt a local planning process that <br /> reconciles the need to encourage and respect <br /> 8. Implement policies and programs that the vitality of established residential neigh- <br /> encourage the upgrading of neighborhoods borhoods with the need to identify and site <br /> and the rehabilitation and preservation of the essential public residential facilities for special <br /> supply of existing affordable housing, needs populations, including those mandated <br /> I including but not limited to mobile home park under RCW 36.70A.200. <br /> housing, single room occupancy (SRO) <br /> housing, and manufactured housing. 12. Encourage the use of innovative urban <br /> I design techniques to foster broad community <br /> 9. Implement a coordinated monitoring acceptance of a variety of housing types. <br /> program to evaluate progress towards <br /> Iachieving housing goals and objectives on a 13. Provide adequate, affordable housing <br /> countywide and jurisdictional level. Such a choices for all segments of the County's work <br /> monitoring program shall entail the pre- force within close proximity or adequate <br /> Iparation of a housing monitoring report every access to the respective places of work. <br /> five years or more frequently if housing <br /> I conditions warrant. The housing report will 14. Encourage the use of environmentally <br /> include an assessment of the adequacy of the sensitive housing development practices in <br /> jurisdictions' supply of developable residential order to minimize the impacts of growth on <br /> I building lots, the jurisdictions' supply of land the county's natural resources. <br /> for non-residential land uses, the location of <br /> urban growth boundaries, and an assessment 15. Consider the economic implications of <br /> 111, of the jurisdictions' strategies for achieving proposed building and land use regulations so <br /> their housing objectives. that the broader public benefit they serve is <br /> achieved with the least additional cost to <br /> Ihousing. <br /> H-9 <br />