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EVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN LAND USE ELEMENT 1111 1.12 Shoreline Land Uses. Shoreline areas overlapping of policies and regulations, it within the Everett Planning Area are regulated should be understood that the SMP provides by the State Shoreline Management Act, greater detail for implementing the intent of which was adopted by voters in 1971. This the Land Use Element within shoreline areas Act required that local governments establish than contained within the text of the Land Use a planning and permitting process for shoreline Element. uses in a Shoreline Master Program (SMP). Everett's SMP was adopted in 1976 and Most of Everett's shoreline areas have had a contains policies and regulations for those long history of industrial use. Since the unique activities and uses which need to occur 1960's, many of the shoreline industries have along the shoreline. It sets a priority for water been discontinued, mills have been closed, and dependent and water related uses, and buildings have been demolished. Although the emphasizes increased opportunities for the Port of Everett marine terminal and north public to enjoy the shoreline resource. This marina areas remain very active, and the Navy I� emphasis is based upon the federal Public Homeport promises new growth and Trust Doctrine, included in the Shoreline Act, challenges, there have been no significant new which provides that certain bodies of water industrial uses established along Everett's must always be "available" to the general waterfronts to replace the departed industries. public and managed by government to provide Within several of these shoreline areas, the for navigation, commerce, fisheries and opportunity to re-evaluate land use recreation. designations is presented by the decline of previous manufacturing concerns. While the The Shoreline Master Program, as currently SMP update proposes urban land use adopted or in the future amended, is the designations for most of Everett's shoreline official policy guideline pertaining to land uses areas, no detailed descriptions of desired within those portions of the Everett Planning developments have been included. The Area under the jurisdiction of the State circumstances affecting specific parcels in Shoreline Management Act. The Everett shoreline areas present a unique potential that Shoreline Master Program (SMP) will be should be carefully considered in designating updated following the adoption of the Everett land uses. Future uses or redevelopment in Comprehensive Plan. The existing and the shoreline areas should be subject to detailed proposed SMP contain very detailed policies study which includes an analysis of the land and regulations governing shoreline permits use needs for the Everett Planning Area, site required for establishing or expanding land limitations, opportunities for satisfying uses in areas under the jurisdiction of the multiple objectives of the Comprehensive Plan SMP. The comprehensive plan applies the (transportation, housing, open space, proposed "use environments" of the update of recreation, economic development, en- the city's SMP as an overlay to the land use vironmental protection and enhancement, designations of the Land Use Map. The public access, etc.), and creating neigh- policies of the Land Use Element are more borhoods or districts which implement the general concerning the types of land uses vision of the community. encouraged or allowed in various land use 11, categories, while the SMP policies deal more 1.12.1 Shoreline areas within the Everett directly with the impacts of land uses within Planning Area which are regulated by the shoreline areas. While it appears that the Land State Shoreline Management Act are included Use Element and the SMP create an in the update to Everett's Shoreline Master LU-35