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EVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN LAND USE ELEMENT landowners, the Everett Chamber of for this area, the existing residentially zoned Commerce and the Snohomish County areas shall remain residential. Economic Development Council, consider this area to be an important economic resource for 1.11.5 Commercial Arterial Corridors: The the Puget Sound region. Therefore, the Land prominence of Everett's arterial corridors in Use Element reinforces the previous the daily life of the community bears special commitment to industrial use of this area. consideration. The commercial corridors in Land use designations include heavy Everett have several problems which are not manufacturing, light industry and office and unique to Everett. Many of the functional and industrial park. Conversion of the industrial aesthetic problems are being addressed in the land base to non-industrial use is discouraged, Transportation Element and Urban Design except under limited circumstances where it Element. Land use designations along I can be demonstrated by the property owner Everett's commercial arterial corridors have that industrial use of a site is not feasible and traditionally reinforced their orientation to the that conversion to a non-industrial use will not automobile, to the detriment of the pedestrian I reduce the viability of adjoining industrial and bicyclist, as well as to the efficient use of lands. the street system and use of land in the city. This traditional "strip" land use pattern has 1.11.4 Everett Community College - General also resulted in an excessive amount of Hospital: Both Everett Community College commercially zoned land within the Everett and General Hospital Medical Center are Planning Area. It is important to evaluate the located in residential zones in close proximity land use designations of the commercial to one another in the north Everett area. Both arterial corridors in light of the objectives and1111 institutions have previously identified long land use vision of the community. term expansion needs which could impact the surrounding neighborhood. Neither institution Specific transportation and design programs has sufficiently defined their future activity, for certain commercial arterial corridors may space and land area needs to be able to be prepared subsequent to the adoption of the delineate potential areas for expansion on a comprehensive plan. It will be important to land use map. The recent merger of General review the recommendations of these studies Hospital with Providence Hospital will require to consider if any modifications of land use further evaluation of expansion in this area. policies or land use designations are necessary By consolidating services and eliminating to further the objectives of these studies. The competition between the two institutions, corridors of particular concern include there may not be a need for hospital expansion Evergreen Way, Broadway, Everett Mall Way in this neighborhood. When sufficient infor- and Hewitt Avenue. Other corridors may also mation from the college and merged hospitals be reviewed and should also be re-examined is available, the issues and opportunities for potential land use policy or map changes. associated with any outward expansion into adjoining residential areas must be reviewed 1.11.6 Neighborhoods: Special plans for with substantial input from and agreement individual neighborhoods or groups of with the affected neighborhood. Until the City neighborhoods are not being proposed as part has worked with each institution and the of the Land Use Element. However, as time adjoining neighborhood and arrived at a and interest permit, more detailed study of decision as to the future land use designations specific neighborhoods may be initiated to address issues that may be important for one I LU-30