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IEVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN LAND USE ELEMENT lb ******************** I 4. commerce - lands to be used primarily for I I. INTRODUCTION retail sales, offices, services and other compatible uses. A. Purpose of the Land Use Element: The 5. industry - lands to be used for manufac- ' Land Use Element, perhaps the most basic turing and industrial purposes, warehousing, piece of the comprehensive plan, establishes heavy commercial and other compatible the framework for the City's future physical activities. Idevelopment. It provides a vision for the 6. recreation - lands to be used for distribution, type and intensity of various uses recreational purposes. of land within the Everett Planning Area. The 7. open spaces - lands to be reserved for ILand Use Element is probably the most open space purposes. important element of the Comprehensive Plan 8. public utilities - lands required for the because it will be the basis for the decisions provision of public utility services needed to Ithat must be made for all other elements of the serve the levels of activity supported by the plan. The Growth Management Act requires land use element. I all elements of the comprehensive plan to be 9. public facilities - lands required for the consistent with the Land Use Map. The Land provision of public facilities and services Use Element (both maps and policies) will needed for the levels of growth supported by 111) serve as a guide to future decision making by the land use element. the public and private sector relating to 10. "other" land uses" - lands required for property investments, land development, regionally important but often hard to site I public services, and infrastructure. The facilities including, but not limited to colleges, policies and maps of the Land Use Element hospitals, sanitary landfills, and other uses will require the City to revise land which GMA refers to as "essential public I development regulations, zoning boundaries, facilities." and will influence land use permit decisions. 11. population densities - designation of population densities within the community, IB. Topics required to be addressed by the usually expressed in terms of a prescribed Land Use Element: The GMA and the range or number of dwellings per acre. Everett Municipal Code require that the land 12. building intensities - intensity of Iuse element of the comprehensive plan address development desired for different areas, the following topics: expressed in various manners, such as building 11 1. agriculture - lands to be reserved for bulk, building height, lot coverage, floor area ratios, open space ratios, etc. agricultural uses. 13. estimates of future population growth - a I 2. timber - lands to be reserved for the description of the number of people expected production of timber. to be living or desiring to live in the 3. housing - lands to be used primarily for community during the period covered by the ill the location of various types of housing and comprehensive plan other compatible uses. 14. flooding, surface drainage and water quality - a description of the effects of the land Iuse plan on flooding, surface drainage and I LU-1