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EVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN CAPITAL FACILITIES AND UTILITIES ELEMENT The Capital Facilities Plan and Improvement financing plan) are coordinated and consis- Program differ from previous capital tent, and improvements programs. Previously, the scheduling of physical improvements was - At least a 6-year plan to finance such based on anticipated available financial capital facilities within project funding resources and on a priority listing of capital capacities with sources of public money improvement needs for a period of six years. clearly identified (Appendix A.4). The first year of the program constitutes the capital facility portion of the annual budget and commits the jurisdiction to the identified B. GOALS, OBJECTIVES, POLICIES capital expenditures, but the remaining years AND IMPLEMENTATION of the program could remain as planned, altered or eliminated completely. GMA The goals and objectives of a comprehensive endeavors to provide greater certainty for the plan provide the stated direction of a com- construction of capital facilities by giving munity regarding specific issues. Policies de- greater weight to the six year plan and scribe particular courses of action designed to requiring projects to have identified funding implement the goals and objectives of the in order to be included in the plan. plan. As defined by the GMA, capital facilities are What follows is a list of the goals, objectives physical structures owned/operated by public and policies for the Capital Facilities and entities which provide or support a public Utilities element of the comprehensive plan. service. Capital facilities include, but are not limited to, domestic water/sewer facilities, schools, major transportation and transit systems, stormwater retention/detention fa- 1. Goal 1 Concurrency and Provision of cilities, parks and recreation facilities, Service libraries, policy and fire. To ensure that those public facilities and The GMA requires that the capital facilities services necessary to support development, element address specific issues including: and required to be "concurrent" under GMA, are adequate to serve the development at the - An inventory of existing capital facilities time it is available for occupancy and use. (Appendix A.1), a. Objective - A forecast of future needs for identified capital facilities (Appendix A.2), Capital facilities in the city of Everett shall be provided to maintain existing services and to - Proposed general locations and capacities accommodate the projected growth over the of expanded or new capital facilities next twenty years in a timely and efficient (Appendix A.3), manner. - Assurances that the Land Use element and Capital Facilities element (including the CF-5