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EVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN IE660/10IN3NWPEJS:NA I PARKS AND RECREATION ELEMENT lation is expressed as level of service • Wilmalane Park District(Oregon) Study 111 (LOS). Levels of service are established • User Groups Survey through the analysis of the following: • Other City Department Policies and Pro- cedures 1. inventory of existing park facilities and • Regulatory and Public Law Require- recreation services ments • SCORP) State Comprehensive Outdoor 2. community surveys and analysis Recreation and Park Plan 3. established professional standards such This analysis was used to determine both ' as State Comprehensive Outdoor Recrea- what programs, services and facilities are tion Plan (SCORP), Interagency most needed and desired by city residents Committee for Outdoor Recreation (IAC), and goals for the Everett Parks and Recrea- and National Recreation and Parks tion Department for the next 6 years. The Association(NRPA). needs study or "demand analysis" will be reviewed at appropriate times over the next LOS, along with research, analysis and twenty years in order to identify changing evaluation, forms the foundation for deter- recreational needs of the community. , mining policy and implementing measures such as development regulations, capital C. Goals, Objectives, Strategies improvement plans, impact fee assessments ' and other applicable public programs. The strategic goals and objectives of the Parks and Recreation Department result1111 B. Recreation Needs Study (Demand from the comprehensive plan and provide Analysis) the direction for the Department in defining "what" the needs of the community are, The community's recreational needs or external requirements, and "what" the demand analysis is based on a mathematical needs of the Department are, internal analysis of the following sources of requirements. Strategies describe particu- information: lar courses of action and "how" to implement the goals and objectives of the • Trends Analysis plan. Within this document an objective • Parks and Recreation Historical Demand must have at least one strategy, but may • Snohomish County Needs Assessment have more. • Snohomish County Parks and Recreation Plan The Growth Management Act of 1992 • Everett 2000 requires all cities to comprehensively deter- • Hebert Survey (recent Everett commu- mine growth and development criteria. As nity-wide recreation survey conducted an element of the City Comprehensive Plan by the Parks Department) developed under the Growth Management • Park Department youth survey of over Act, the Parks and Recreation Comprehen- ' one hundred 8th and 10th graders in the sive Plan must be compatible with the Everett School District. overall city plan and compliant with the • Everett Parks and Recreation Staff Growth Management Act. The City Com- Survey prehensive Plan is being developed using I P-2