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EVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN LAND USE ELEMENT water quality, and actions required to prevent or alleviate problems. The location of transportation facilities has always influenced land use patterns. Everett This list of issues and topics are addressed by was founded because the combination of its sections that discuss "Existing Conditions" and harbor and the anticipated terminus of the a subsequent section that includes recom- transcontinental railroad would have made it a mended policies. hub for industrial activity. The decision to build a transportation facility in a given C. Relationship to Other Elements of the location can stimulate increased land use Comprehensive Plan: The Land Use activity, as is common around ports and Element, more that any other element, is airports, along highway corridors, at the intricately related to all other elements of the intersection of arterial streets, and near public , comprehensive plan. The Growth Manage- transit stations. Successful implementation of ment Act requires that all elements of the the Land Use Element depends upon the comprehensive plan be internally consistent. manner in which the Transportation Element The following paragraphs describe the need provides transportation facilities. The manner for the Land Use Element to be consistent in which various modes of transporting people with the other plan elements. and goods occurs can either reinforce or undermine the desired types of land uses and 1. Transportation: The GMA provides urban form called for by the Land Use greater detail for the requirements of the Element. Transportation Element than any other element. It requires that transportation The goals and visions expressed in the four facilities be provided to serve the various land "guiding forces," for the Everett Compre- uses designated by the Land Use Element. hensive Plan, particularly Everett 2000, call Travel forecasts for at least ten years shall be for a highly improved public transportation based upon the assumptions of the Land Use system which supports the downtown, serves Element to reflect the location, timing and existing neighborhoods, and creates transit capacity needs of planned growth. It also oriented mixed use commercial and residential ' requires that level of service standards be activity centers. The extent to which established for arterials and transit routes, and transportation facilities that reinforce the land that funding be provided to meet the use goals are provided will play the most ' prescribed levels of service. If funding falls important role in shaping the future physical short of providing the levels of service form of the community. required to serve the planned land uses, more funding will have to be provided or the land 2. Housing: The GMA requires the Housing use assumptions must be reevaluated to assure Element to identify sufficient land for that adequate levels of service are maintained. government assisted housing, low income Jurisdictions must adopt and enforce family housing, manufactured housing, ordinances which prohibit approval of a multifamily housing, group homes and foster proposed development if the development will care facilities. The text and/or maps in the cause the level of service on a transportation Land Use Element must address the above facility to drop below adopted standards. housing issues, as well as identify sufficient Therefore, the land use plan must be land designated to be developed at sufficient410 reconciled with the ability of the City to densities to accommodate the housing finance transportation facility improvements. required for the anticipated 2012 population I LU-2 111