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EVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN LAND USE ELEMENT number of customers served will increase from maintenance of a safe and adequate water approximately 350,000 in 1993 to 700,000 supply for the Everett water system, and customers by 2020. The city-owned Chaplain which are in accordance with applicable Reservoir area (Chaplain Watershed), located license requirements. t approximately 15 miles east of Everett, functions as a large part of this supply system. b) The City shall develop a management The City has annexed most of this land plan for the Chaplain area property to guide through a provision in State law that allows the long term use of the land for purposes annexation of non-contiguous lands used for compatible with the primary use as Snohomish municipal utility purposes. Everett manages County's primary water supply. This manage- this land for the long term provision of a safe ment plan shall be the basis for zoning and adequate water supply Much of the city- regulations to be applied to the land located owned Chaplain lands shall continue to be within the corporate limits of Everett. used to provide water to the Everett Water Service Area. It is anticipated that the de- c) The portions of the Chaplain area mand for Everett's water will steadily increase property located within the jurisdiction of the over the next 20 years. Timber management State Shoreline Management Act shall be on Chaplain lands is conducted in accordance managed in accordance with the applicable with the State Forest Practices Act and policies and regulations of the Shoreline applicable licenses. Some of the lands located Master Program. outside the Chaplain watershed are also used for limited recreational purposes. Lands with- d) To the extent that it is economically in 200 feet of the Ordinary High Water Mark practical, the city shall employ construction of the Lake Chaplain and Spada Lake methods which minimize environmental reservoirs are subject to the Shoreline impacts and visual impacts to adjoining land Management Act policies and regulations. uses. The City is required by State law to prepare e) Forest practices shall be governed by the and update a water system plan every six Washington Forest Practices Rules (WAC years, which governs how Everett will manage 222). its water system. This section of the comprehensive plan deals only with land use 1.10 "Other Land Uses" or "Hard to Site policies for the City-owned Chaplain Facilities": Certain essential uses necessary properties within the Sultan Basin. A new to support urban development, such as zoning classification will be developed that colleges, hospitals, solid waste handling will be applied to these lands within the facilities, correctional facilities, government corporate limits of Everett buildings and facilities, and social services, to name a few, are frequently not welcomed by a) The city owned lands in the vicinity of the the neighborhoods near where such uses may Chaplain reservoir are hereby designated be proposed. The following policies shall "Watershed - Resource Management." The apply to the siting of "other land uses" or primary use of these lands is for the "hard to site facilities:" management of the Everett municipal water system and other compatible uses, such as 1.10.1 The city shall coordinate with the forestry, limited recreation, and wildlife habitat State of Washington, Snohomish County, and management that do not conflict with the other likely proponents of "hard to site LU-28