Ordinance 2021-94 - Laserfiche WebLink

EVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN LAND USE ELEMENT Program (SMP). The update to the SMP will the general type of development and activities be considered by the City following adoption desired by the Everett community for its of the comprehensive plan. The SMP contains shoreline areas. more detailed inventories of shoreline resources, use policies and related regulations b) Wherever the policies contained in this (e.g., water dependent uses, public access, section may conflict with other policies environmental protection) for shoreline areas contained in the Land Use Element, the than are contained in the Land Use Element. policies in this section shall take precedence The land use map of the Land Use Element for lands and shoreline areas included within applies the shoreline use environment the shoreline designations on the Land Use designations to the same general areas Map. proposed by the update to the SMP as an I overlay to the land use designations. c) The policies and regulations contained in However, the lands affected by the shoreline the Everett SMP, as currently written or in the overlay of the Land Use Map that are not future amended, are intended to address in under the jurisdiction of the Shoreline Master detail the variety of complex shoreline issues Program shall not be subject to the policies of encountered when the City reviews shoreline the SMP. They are included on the map to permit applications, and are to be used in convey the community's vision for various evaluating and applying conditions of approval shoreline areas. This section of the Land Use to shoreline permit applications. Element incorporates the land use related policies which apply to the "use environment" 1.12.2 Shoreline Use Environments. The designations of the proposed update to the SMP designates shoreline areas with a variety4111i Shoreline Master Program. This section also of"use environments." The use environments contains a general description of the are applied to geographic areas based upon community's desired vision of future uses and existing characteristics and potential activities developments within Everett's shoreline areas, that the Everett community has deemed as while the SMP contains more detailed policies, desirable for the shoreline. These use regulations, and descriptions to be used in environments fall into four categories. These implementing the community's vision. categories and their general purposes are: The land use policies and regulations of the Urban: To allow for water dependent I SMP may differ from, or even conflict with and water related urban uses. policies and regulations for non-shoreline Conservancy: To protect and preserve areas. This is intentional. Because the shore- sensitive natural resources. I line areas of the Everett Planning Area are a Rural: To limit uses to those which are unique, limited resource, with tremendous compatible with rural areas. economic, environmental, recreational, and Aquatic: To allow aquatic uses while111 aesthetic values, they are treated differently protecting aquatic resources. than non-shoreline areas. For these very reasons, the State enacted the Shoreline The majority of Everett's shoreline areas are Management Act in the first place. designated "urban." The urban areas allow greater development and human activity than a) The policies contained in this section and the other, more restrictive use environments the land use map designations to which they allow. apply for shoreline areas provide direction for 1 LU-36