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EVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN LAND USE ELEMENT bfor the Everett Planning Area. Many of the housing goals of the Housing Element will be While the private sector will finance and build I implemented through changes to the City's most of the development envisioned by the land use policies, maps and regulations. The comprehensive plan, much of the Land Use Element must describe the changes infrastructure and all of the public services I necessary to meet the goals of the Housing within Everett must be provided by local Element. government. Infrastructure improvements will likely be funded by a combination of private 3. Capital Facilities (including Parks): sector, local government, and state and federal Capital facilities include those public lands and funding. The Capital Facilities Element buildings needed to provide public services. identifies desired levels of public services, the IWhile the City will have a separate Parks and costs of providing services to the desired Recreation Plan, the GMA requires that park levels, and the amount of land and building I lands and recreation buildings be included in space required to provide public services. the inventory of capital facilities. The Capital This category includes such services and Facilities Element is essentially a financial plan facilities as schools, fire stations, water supply I describing how local governments will pay for and sewage treatment facilities, libraries, public facilities at the levels of service desired parks, and other general purpose government by the community. Since previous planning buildings. I efforts by the City and Snohomish County were targeting lower populations than The Capital Facilities Element must provide a required under the GMA, the planned levels of realistic plan for financing costs of land 1. public services and the land areas needed to acquisition and construction of the all capital provide for such services were not facilities needed to provide public services for programmed into previous land use plans for all of the activities encouraged by the Land I the Everett Planning Area. This means that Use Element. The Land Use Element, in turn, the large increase in the projected population must designate sufficient land areas for the will require greater levels of investment in various types of public service uses identified I public services, more land area, and more by the Capital Facilities Element. The level of buildings in which to locate the public services land use activity supported by the Land Use than were provided for by the previous plans. Element is dependent upon the ability of the ICity to pay for the public services and facilities While more land is needed for public services, required to serve such activities. The levels of I the higher population and employment public services and facilities is partially projections for the GMA mandated plans will dependent upon the capacity of the Land Use increase the demand for other land uses. The Element to provide sufficient land area for I private sector will compete directly with local public services. governments for acquisition of urban lands. A limited supply of urban land and increased 4. Urban Design and Historic Preser- I competition for urban land uses may drive up vation: This element is not mandated by the the cost of land for public purposes. The GMA, but is one which Everett has elected to amount of land required for public services include in its comprehensive plan for two 16 within the Everett Planning Area must be important reasons. First is that Everett has a determined by the Capital Facilities Element, rich legacy of historic traditions and properties and provided for by the land use designations which the Everett Vision 2000 citizen's I of the Land Use Element. committee has recommended be preserved and I LU-3