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EVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN I LAND USE ELEMENT residential developments. Given the and related manufacturing activities and areill abundance of retail space in the Everett now vacant or used for low intensity log Planning Area cited above, and the need to storage. Another large industrially zoned accommodate more population than pre-GMA aggregates mining area has a short remaining land use designations provide for, it may be life expectancy and is expected to be reclaimed desirable to determine how existing for industrial use. I commercial areas may be re-developed efficiently and how they may be made to f. Recreation: Within the Everett Planning integrate housing along with commercial Area, there are 1,420 acres of public 1 services. park/recreation/public open space lands, or 5.4 percent of the gross land area. This includes e. Industry: The Everett Planning Area has public school facilities used for recreational 1 a large inventory of undeveloped industrially purposes, active and passive park lands. This zoned land. Of the approximate 5,101 acres translates to a standard of 12.7 acres per I of industrially zoned land (27% of the total net 1,000 residents (1992 population). However, land area), only 49 percent, or 2500 acres, is as the table below illustrates, the location of presently developed. However, much of the the existing inventory of park land within the inventory of vacant industrial land is affected sub-areas of the Everett Planning Area is out by environmental constraints, reducing the of balance. In other words, the bulk of the amount of vacant and developable industrial park land inventory is located in sub-areas 1, 2 I land to approximately 1,437 acres. Most of and 5. When the "passive" or undeveloped the vacant and developable industrial land is park lands, much of which are environmentally located in the southwest Everett/Paine Field sensitive areas, are subtracted from the area, where few constraints to development inventory, the overall ratio of active park land It exist. Still other large industrially designated to population is extremely low in three of the areas are located along the Snohomish River, six planning sub-areas, and with projected I in the delta flood plain, or on the Everett population growth, will be inadequate to serve harborfront, where there are more shoreline, the future population. This suggests that park environmental, access or infrastructure con- land acquisition needs are the greatest in sub- I straints. Some of the waterfront industrial areas 3, 4 and 6. areas have seen a decline from wood products Area 1 Area 2 Area 3 Area 4 Area 5 Area 6 Total I Acres Park& 565 453 96 18 249 39 1,420 I Rec./Public Open Space Ac. Park& 20.9 19.3 25.5 2.5 8.2 2.1 12.7 I Pub. Open Sp. per 1,000 Pop. 1992 Ac. Park& 437 237 11 18 248 38 980 Rec.w/o Pub. Open Space Ac. Park& 16.2 10.1 2.9 2.5 8.2 2.0 8.8 1111 Open Sp. per 1,000 Pop. 1992 1 LU-8 I