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• <br /> • <br /> WHEREAS, the Planning Commission has considered four alternative growth <br /> scenarios as possible choices for Everett's future and has reviewed the <br /> environmental impacts and policy tradeoffs of the alternatives pursuant to the <br /> State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA), including a scoping process, Draft <br /> Environmental Impact Statement, and Final Environmental Impact Statement; <br /> and <br /> WHEREAS, the Planning Commission has recommended to the City Council a <br /> growth concept for the Preferred Alternative comprehensive plan that combines <br /> aspects of the various alternatives that most closely represent the desires the <br /> Everett community for the City's future growth pattern; and <br /> WHEREAS, the City Council has conducted public workshops and public <br /> hearings to review the recommendations of the Planning Commission and to <br /> take additional public testimony; and <br /> WHEREAS, the City Council finds that the policies, land use designations, and <br /> investment strategies of the Preferred Alternative comply with the requirements <br /> of the Growth Management Act and are consistent with the County-wide <br /> Planning Policies; and <br /> WHEREAS, the City Council finds that the Preferred Alternative for the Growth <br /> Management Comprehensive Plan provides for the orderly accommodation of <br /> growth in Everett and promotes the best long term interests of the Everett <br /> community; and <br /> WHEREAS, the City Council will use the Growth Management Comprehensive <br /> Plan as a guide in the development of specific work programs and functional <br /> plans, amendment of development regulations, design of improvement projects, <br /> and preparation of budgets that implement the community's vision for the future <br /> as expressed in the Growth Management Comprehensive Plan; and <br /> WHEREAS, the City will hold additional public hearings to consider public <br /> testimony regarding rezone proposals necessary to make the Zoning Map <br /> consistent with the Land Use Map of the Growth Management Comprehensive <br /> Plan, and that through this public decision making process future refinements to <br /> the Land Use Map may be made as deemed appropriate; and <br /> WHEREAS, the City will amend the various development regulations of the City <br /> as necessary to implement the policies and land use designations of the Growth <br /> Management Comprehensive Plan; and <br /> WHEREAS, the City will monitor the growth occurring under the Growth <br /> Management Comprehensive Plan and will periodically review and update the <br /> 2 <br />