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111 <br /> EVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN <br /> ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ELEMENT <br /> bPort is a transportation center for the greater 4. Air Travel. According to the Puget <br /> Northwest. Sound Regional Council (PSRC) and the Port <br /> I <br /> of Seattle, the region will need more <br /> E. Transportation Economic activity commercial airport capacity by the year 2000. <br /> depends on transportation systems to travel In April 1993, the PSRC voted to amend the <br /> I to work; deliver raw materials; and move Regional Air System Plan. The PSRC <br /> goods to markets. People and goods are General Assembly decided to pursue a major <br /> moved by road, rail and air. All these trans- supplemental airport and a third runway at <br /> I portation systems are available in Everett. Sea-Tac. Small supplemental airports, in- <br /> cluding Paine Field were eliminated as part of <br /> Port. The Port of Everett's long term a preferred alternative. <br /> Ii. <br /> plans foresee an increase in port develop- <br /> ment: more pleasure boating, more cargo The Paine Field area could provide more <br /> movement, and more industrial activity. The industrial space related to aircraft and <br /> Iport can also be used as a passenger ferry aviation. Suitable infrastructure, utilities, <br /> site. Naval Station Everett, located adjacent plans, and zoning are already in place for <br /> to the port, will stimulate additional business additional airport related industrial and <br /> development in Everett and other parts of the commercial development to occur. <br /> county. <br /> II <br /> F. Land Availability. Even with a good <br /> 2. Transit and Road Network. Transit sys- location and a good transportation system, <br /> IP tems continue to improve with the addition of Everett can't increase jobs and a tax base <br /> new buses and routes. The area freeways are significantly unless we have enough land and <br /> being improved with additional High Occu- space available to accommodate new eco- <br /> pancy Vehicle lanes. nomic activity. <br /> I3. Proposed Rail Systems for Commuters. Based on Planning Department land use <br /> The Puget Sound Council of Governments studies and vacant land inventories, Everett's <br /> I adopted Vision 2020 which included a <br /> Regional Transportation Plan. If citizens planning area has approximately 1,700 acres <br /> of usable land for industrial and similar uses. <br /> decide to approve and adopt the funding of This total excludes environmentally sensitive <br /> Ithe Regional Transportation Plan, we will areas. <br /> have a High Capacity Transit system which <br /> will be operational within the 20-year time Other ways to increase the economic land <br /> Ihorizon of GMA. base include redevelopment, and increased <br /> density and intensity of land use. There are <br /> I The Burlington Northern proposal to utilize more than 500 acres of under-utilized <br /> existing tracks between downtown Everett commercially zoned land in downtown and <br /> and Tacoma along the shoreline may provide strip commercial corridors within the planning <br /> I a great opportunity to test commuter interest area. <br /> in traveling by rail much sooner than the <br /> regional HCT system can be developed, and G. Areas Suited for Further Economic <br /> illi may support redevelopment efforts in the Development. Historically, Everett has <br /> central business district. utilized the waterfronts, the Central Business <br /> District, and major arterials for commerce <br /> Iand industry. The Southwest Everett in- <br /> 111 <br /> n-' ED-9 <br />