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IEVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN GLOSSARY ill Commuter Matching Service: A system that assists Consistency: The requirement that subdivision regu- lations, zoning regulations and capital improvements together. programs be consistent with the comprehensive plan I and each of its elements: and that individual land use Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy decisions also be consistent with the plan. The GMA (CHAS): A document which is prepared annually to requires that the Plan be both internally consistent and I lay out housing affordability strategies that address the consistent with neighboring jurisdictions. needs of homeless, low and moderate income people in ways that promote community and individual stability. Cooperative Housing: A multi-family ownership I type of housing where the building is owned in Comprehensive Plan: A generalized coordinated common by members of the cooperative, with policy statement of the governing body of the city that members having specific occupancy rights and condi- is adopted pursuant to the Washington State Growth tional rights to transfer or sell ownership and I Management Act. A document or series of documents occupancy rights. Some cooperatives have limited prepared by a professional planning staff and planning ownership equity accompanied by restrictions on commission that sets forth broad guidelines and future sales of equity ownership shares. I policies for the future development of a community, Such plan should be the result of considerable public Cost Estimates: Cost of new facilities or services input, study and analysis of existing physical, necessary to compare the transportation system needs economic, environmental and social conditions, and a or other public infrastructure with the available I projection of what the future conditions are likely to revenues. Cost must be estimated for: be. Maintenance and operation of the existing and I Concurrency Management Ordinance: An proposed transportation or infrastructural system, ordinance that requires a determination that there will be adequate public facilities available to support a Cost of designing and building new, expanded, or IP) development before the development is approved. replacement facilities, Concurrency: A Washington State Growth Manage- Cost of acquiring new and related capital costs, such ment Act (GMA) requirement that mandates and as new transit vehicles,etc. I ensures that certain public infrastructures such as transportation, water and sewer facilities, needed to Program cost for operating such system,and maintain adopted level of service standards (for I arterials and transit routes) are available within six General costs associated with administering, plan- years of development. Concurrency is also a provision ning,and operating such system. for assuring that improvements or strategies to I accommodate the impacts of development are in place Countywide Planning Policies: As required by at the time of development or that a financial GMA,the Snohomish County Council adopted a series commitment is in place to complete the improvements of policies which embody a vision of the future of of strategies within six years. A process of reassess- Snohomish County. These policies framework are I ment, concurrency is a key link between land use, transportation, water and sewer and development intended to guide the development of Comprehensive Plans of communities in the county. approval. I Critical Areas: As a key part in managing growth in Condominium: A method of co-ownership of a single Washington, the Growth Management Program tract of ground and the airspace above. Each co-owner requires that every county and city classify and desig- owns an undivided interest in the common areas of the nate critical areas: wetlands, aquifer recharge areas, I condominium plat. fish and wildlife habitat, frequently flooded areas, geologically hazardous areas, and rare/endangered Congestion: A condition under which the number of plant habitat. 110 vehicles using a facility is great enough to cause reduced speeds and increased travel times. CSO: See Combined Sewer Overflow. I G-5 i