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EVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN LAND USE ELEMENT 111) area but not to other neighborhoods. Such located. However, if the system is built, only studies should be supplemental to the overall one route will be selected, and the number of Land Use Element and may be used as the stations will, therefore, be fewer than shown basis for amending land use designations, on the Land Use Map. The policies contained zoning boundaries or standards, or to herein address the need to evaluate important reinforce or create a special character or considerations when making decisions architectural style desired for the particular concerning the location of potential high area that may not otherwise be possible within capacity transit corridors, transit stations, and the framework of existing policies, land use land use designations near the transit corridors designations and development regulations and stations. without further study. a) The City of Everett shall take the lead role 1.11.7 High Capacity Transit Corridors/ within the Everett Planning Area for Transit Stations: The possibility of a regional determining the alignment of the high capacity ihigh capacity transit system being substantially transit system routes, and the siting of high developed within the time frame of the capacity transit stations. planning period is unlikely. However, Everett feels that the implementation of some form of b) High capacity transit corridors and such a system is critical to the growth stations should be sited so as to provide management objectives of the region. The service to existing or planned locations of high introduction of such a transportation mode intensity employment centers and/or mixed use could have profound impacts on the employment/residential centers. commuting and land use patterns of Everett and the Puget Sound. The siting of high c) High capacity transit corridors and capacity transit corridors and stations will stations should be sited so as to complement generate special transportation needs, such as and support existing or planned land uses and interconnections with local bus service and minimize the traffic impacts on existing development of park and ride facilities, and neighborhoods. create new opportunities for land uses that will benefit from being in close proximity to transit d) High capacity transit stations should be stations. sited so as to maximize the opportunity to integrate with other modes of transportation, However, the decision whether or not to fund especially bus transit, pedestrian and bicycle and build such a transportation system will not modes, and to reduce the need for use of the be made until after the Growth Management automobile. comprehensive plan is initially completed. Even if voters decide to support the e) Land use designations in proximity to construction of the high capacity system, the high capacity transit stations should provide decisions concerning specific alignments will for a variety of uses which support the needs not be made for up to several years after the of commuters and area residents, yet protect decision is made to build the high capacity the essential qualities of existing residential transit system. Everett's Land Use Map neighborhoods. designates several potential high capacity transit corridors and station locations. These f) Decisions concerning the alignment of designations are conceptual, indicating where high capacity transit corridors and siting of 111 the transit routes and stations could be stations should be made only following LU-31