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EVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN I LAND USE ELEMENT c) Urban Multi-Use Environment but is designated "Water Oriented Industry - Port Development" by the current land use Definition. The Urban Multi-Use Environ- map. While the tidelands area has been I ment is an area of high intensity land and considered as prime for additional marina or shoreline use featuring a mix of industrial, mixed use waterfront development, it also commercial and recreational development. contains marine life habitat, albeit highly 1 Shorelines in this environment front largely on disturbed by the current log storage activity. navigable waters of varying depth and varying The Planning Commission recognizes the degrees of upland access. unique setting of this property and suggests I the area be used for development of water Purpose. To ensure optimum use of dependent urban uses, marina facilities and shorelines within urbanized areas by providing other supportive water dependent and water I for intensive public and commercial activities related commercial uses, public access and by managing development so that it improvements, and environmental enhance- enhances and maintains shorelines for a ment. Zoning for the unzoned area would be multiplicity of urban uses. applied which reinforces this vision, such as M-S, "Maritime Services," with revisions to Criteria for Designation. Areas to be the regulations allow development of water I designated Urban Multi-Use should relate to related commercial activities compatible with more than one of the following: marina development. Development applica- tions shall be reviewed in accordance with the • Areas of intensive land and shoreline use applicable Shoreline Master Program policies including industrial, commercial, and and regulations. The vision and emphasis recreational activity. described herein shall be given considerable Ilk • Areas designed in an adopted public weight in the evaluation of proposed uses and agency plan for expansion of uses. developments. • Areas used for intensive port activity, City's Vision for the Scott Paper Log Yard excluding those areas use primarily for deep- Area: This area, located along the Snohomish draft, ocean going vessels. River, south of the I-5 over-crossing, contains • Areas which do not have a high priority approximately 93 acres and has historically for designation as another shoreline use been designated for heavy manufacturing uses. I environment. The majority of the land is used for storage of logs for Scott Paper. The city supports the • Areas which do not contain biophysical continued use of this site for industrial uses111 limitations to shoreline use and which have supportive of the Scott Paper plant located on adequate utilities and access. the harbor side of Everett's waterfront. Should the current use of this site be City's Vision for the Area North of 10th Street discontinued, preservation of this large land Boat Launch: This area located to the north area for other suitable industrial uses is of the Port of Everett industrial and marina encouraged. However, the city may wish to complex, up to and including the Nord Door consider redevelopment with other urban uses manufacturing area contains approximately to which the land could be converted if 105 acres of tidelands currently used for log industrial use becomes unfeasible. Develop- storage, and approximately 60 acres used for ment applications shall be reviewed in heavy industrial activity. The area is unzoned accordance with the current zoning and LU-38 I