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IEVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN LAND USE ELEMENT IDlocated within the Everett Planning Area and promote greater land use compatibility, enable will continue to be. As the job center for the a more efficient and integrated use of existing I county, Everett has made investments in its commercially zoned areas, or correct irregular transportation and utility infrastructure to zoning boundaries. Zoning regulations will be maintain a healthy economy for the city and amended to encourage housing to be built I the region. Since it is difficult to establish within certain commercial corridors. large industrial tracts in areas where there has Otherwise, existing policies toward not previously been such zoning, Everett's commercial areas would remain very much as I large base of industrial land represents an those in effect since 1987. For shoreline important regional resource. Having a large industrial areas, the comprehensive plan will base of industrial and commercial land has also incorporate shoreline "use environment" helped Everett financially support public designations and policies. Everett's central services provided to its residents. If Everett is business district will be the focus of to continue to provide a healthy economic commercial and residential redevelopment. base and a high level of urban services, it must Commercial arterial corridors will also be the plan for revenue producing land uses which focus of transit compatible commercial and I enhance the regional quality of life and enable residential development. the city to support public services. Maintaining the industrial and commercial land E. Why Everett Encourages Concentrated I base will also provide greater opportunity for Development In Selected Areas: In light of Everett residents to seek employment in the the financial constraints that local city, reducing the need to commute long governments face, Everett's future growth 11111 distances to work. must be partially based upon the concept of concentrated development. This concept has The focus of this economic growth strategy is strong impacts on the future pattern of I to maximize the economic potential of existing physical development within the Everett commercial and industrial areas. In this Planning Area and on the City's ability to manner, business development will occur in efficiently provide services. The following are I areas that can be efficiently served with important reasons for encouraging con- transportation and utility infrastructure, and centrated development in designated areas: residential areas will be protected from Iencroachment by incompatible uses. This 1. Only by concentrating development, can strategy will require redevelopment of many of Everett accommodate the growth anticipated I the underutilized commercial and industrial over the next two decades on the limited properties in the planning area. amount of land available. Consequently, Everett's land use concept is I partially based upon maintaining most of the 2. Encouraging concentration is a fiscally existing commercial and industrial land base, efficient way of providing public facilities and which typically generates a greater amount of services. It allows increased utilization of the I revenue to the city than is necessary to existing capacity of these facilities, rather than provide public services to such lands. requiring that new facilities be built to serve a relatively low number of users. Certain types 1110 D. Commercial and Industrial Areas. of infrastructure, especially mass transit Commercial and industrial zoning will not be facilities, are financially feasible only in areas expanded, except in circumstances where of significant concentration. Iminor adjustments of zoning boundaries will 1 LU-13