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EVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN LAND USE ELEMENT and maintenance of excess rights-of-way not site capital facilities of a County-wide or41111 presently needed for transportation purposes. State-wide nature to ensure that local comprehensive plans do not preclude the 1.6.5 The City shall continue to implement establishment of public capital facilities ordinances and action programs which necessary to support urban development. This enhance the sense of open space provided on policy intends, in part, to ensure that a "fair both public and private properties. share" distribution of the impacts from siting essential public facilities occurs, and that no 1.6.6 The City shall continue to recognize community within the county has a dis- the rights of owners of private property to use proportionate share of public facilities, such as their properties in accordance with applicable jails, solid waste transfer stations, and other land use designations and development facilities which create undesirable impacts. 1 regulations. Urban development should not occur without the provision of adequate public facilities. Yet 1.6.7 The City shall provide incentives for the siting of public facilities often causes developers to incorporate public open space secondary impacts and land use compatibility and recreation facilities within development problems. The following land use policies proposals. shall apply to the siting of public facilities. I 1.7 Public Facilities Land Use Policies: 1.7.1 The City shall designate on the land The Capital Facilities Element includes an use map, to the extent possible, the desired inventory of existing capital facilities and location of essential public facilities. Facilities projects the needs for future public capital of a county-wide or State-wide nature which facilities required to support the levels of cannot be identified on the Land Use Map 4111 growth called for by the Land Use Element. shall be sited through a public process as The Washington Administrative Code developed through Snohomish County guidelines (WAC's) for preparation of the Tomorrow for "essential public facilities." comprehensive plan suggest that the Land Use Element include "a schedule for the phasing of 1.7.2. All public facilities should be sited and the development contemplated consistent with developed so as to be compatible with the availability of capital facilities as provided adjoining land uses to the greatest extent in the capital facilities element." This "concur- feasible. I rency" schedule will be addressed in the Capital Facilities Element, consistent with 1.7.3 The City shall not allow urban policies for levels of service and financing development to occur unless the potable 1 capabilities. The Land Use Element deals with water, sanitary sewer and transportation the designation of land for public capital facilities required to provide service to the facilities and the impacts associated with siting new development are available, without of such facilities. This approach is consistent reducing the service to existing developments with the Multi-County Planning Policies for below adopted level of service standards. King, Kitsap, Pierce and Snohomish Counties. Development may be allowed to proceed without other types of public capital facilities The Snohomish County-Wide Planning being in place, provided that the City ensures Policies, in addition to addressing the land use that the other facilities will not deteriorate to impacts of public capital facilities, call for unacceptable levels. developing a common site review process to 1 LU-26