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EVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN LAND USE ELEMENT 3. The concept of concentrated development to provide public services, like sewer, water, in designated locations implies a diversity of and solid waste disposal when development is intensity as opposed to a uniform overall concentrated. It is less costly on a per unit intensity. By concentrating new growth into basis to provide services to a compact area specific locations, the growth is directed away than to a dispersed area. In order to meet from adjacent low density neighborhoods so housing demand and provide affordable highly valued by residents of the community. housing, given the limited amount of undeveloped land in the Everett Planning 4. Concentrating development in specific Area, higher residential densities will be locations within the urban area allows required. protection of environmentally sensitive areas as well as rural and resource lands outside of F. Activity Centers and Mixed Use Cor- 1 urban areas, without decreasing the overall ridors: The Land Use Map of the Land Use quantity of development permitted. Element designates several potential "activity centers" and "mixed use corridors." The 5. By establishing concentrated growth activity center concept of the Land Use centers, the city will have other lower density Element is intended to provide a close physical areas, thereby promoting a range of densities, and functional relation between different and a variety of land uses and development activities, promote transit supportive forms, unique districts and neighborhoods redevelopment of commercial areas, and which combine to create a diverse and accommodate population growth. The ac- interesting city with living opportunities tivity center allows a variety of urban activities appealing to a wide cross section of people. to occur in a compact area, which is usually located in areas with a high degree of Ilk The Growth Management Act, PSCOG accessibility, such as at the intersection of VISION 2020 Growth and Transportation major thoroughfares or locations adjoining Strategy (Multi-County Planning Policies), transit stations. Concentrating a variety of Snohomish County Tomorrow, and Everett urban uses into a mixed use activity center VISION 2000 documents all contain goals and protects existing lower intensity neigh- I policies which suggest or require the borhoods from encroachment of higher increasing of densities and concentration of densities and non-residential uses. In many activities within urban areas. Containment of cases, mixed use activity centers will be used I urban sprawl means that the land resource is to effect redevelopment in Everett. Activity finite, and that we cannot continue to extend centers can provide numerous benefits to the the suburbs indefinitely. Balancing the land community, which include the following: use needs of housing, commerce and industry, public facilities, open space, infrastructure and • efficient use of land reduces need for sprawl protection of natural resources require a • convenience to residents and employees111 pattern of varying intensity. A more efficient • transportation and public service efficiency transportation system, including public transit • flexibility of uses responsive to the and high capacity transit requires a denser land "market" and needs of surrounding areas use pattern to be financially feasible. The • variety in the character, design and physical VISION 2020 strategy calls for concentrating form activities in areas of high transportation • adds to the sense of neighborhood and accessibility which are connected by efficient community forms of public transit. It is more economical I LU-14