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EVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
<br /> LAND USE ELEMENT
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<br /> g. Open Spaces: The Growth Management policies related to the siting and land use
<br /> Act does not define the term "open space" but compatibility of public utility facilities.
<br /> does require the identification of "open space
<br /> corridors within and between urban growth i. Public Facilities: The Land Use
<br /> areas" which shall include lands useful for Inventory has not included "public facilities"
<br /> recreation, wildlife habitat, trails, and as a separate land use category. Included
<br /> connection of critical areas (environmentally under the term "public facilities" are schools,
<br /> ' sensitive areas). Open space areas have not civic buildings, libraries, fire stations, parks,
<br /> been identified as a separate category of the courts, sewage treatment plants, and other
<br /> •land use inventory. While agricultural lands, buildings and uses reserved for public services
<br /> parks, environmentally sensitive areas, lakes, and administration. Like public utilities, the
<br /> the Puget Sound, and presently undeveloped need for public facilities is driven by the
<br /> properties can be thought of as open space, location and levels of development authorized
<br /> ' some cannot be assumed to be reserved as by comprehensive plans. While some public
<br /> permanent open space uses. Open space areas facilities are large enough to be designated on
<br /> serve many valuable purposes, including a land use map, such as parks, others such as
<br /> recreation, aesthetics, land use buffers, and fire stations or libraries, are not large enough
<br /> wildlife habitat. They can be either the focal to identify as a separate category of land use.
<br /> ' point (like Silver Lake) or the defining edge The Land Use Element policies contain criteria
<br /> (like a ravine) of a neighborhood or business for the siting and land use compatibility of
<br /> district. Private as well as public open spaces various types of public facilities.
<br /> are a necessary component of urban life.
<br /> While the Land Use Element may not propose j. "Other" Land Uses: Included in this
<br /> rigid open space standards, the preservation or category would be "hard to site" facilities such
<br /> ' further development and/or enhancement of as sanitary landfills, hospitals, colleges,
<br /> open spaces will be addressed. correctional facilities, transportation facilities,
<br /> social services, and other facilities of regional
<br /> h. Public Utilities: Public utilities, as a land importance, which the GMA calls "essential
<br /> use category, are not listed as a separate public facilities." Most of these are public
<br /> category in the Land Use Inventory. The facilities which should be addressed in the
<br /> Growth Management Act requires a Public capital facilities elements of various
<br /> Utilities Element which identifies the location governmental agency comprehensive plans.
<br /> and future capacity needs of electrical,
<br /> telecommunications and natural gas utilities. The Everett Planning Area has two hospitals,
<br /> The location and capacity of public utilities are one correctional facility, a community college,
<br /> ' largely dependent on the land uses which numerous governmental offices and facilities,
<br /> require the service of the utility companies. and other institutional uses such as churches,
<br /> Generally, they respond to the growth which is convalescent homes, and group living
<br /> allowed or promoted by comprehensive plans. quarters. The Land Use Element contains
<br /> While most public utility facilities need not be policies promoting land use compatibility for
<br /> identified on the Land Use Map, facilities, "hard to site facilities."
<br /> rights-of-way, or easements which consume
<br /> large areas of land should be identified. B. Holding Capacity Analysis: Along with
<br /> Additionally, the Land Use Element contains the inventory of land uses, a very basic
<br /> component of any comprehensive land use
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