Ordinance 2021-94 - Laserfiche WebLink

1 EVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN LAND USE ELEMENT lbbe reviewed in accordance with the applicable Criteria for Designation. zoning regulations and Shoreline Master Program policies and regulations. • Areas of existing or planned industrial, commercial, utility, and recreational land use Shoreline Use Policies. 1 activities. • Areas designated in the adopted plans of 1) On shorelines of navigable waters, public agencies for expansion of such uses. encourage water dependent development that I does not negatively impact the biological or • Areas which are tidally connected to the aesthetic value of the shoreline or adjacent estuary and are either north or east of the uplands, or provides for mitigation of impacts I main channel of the Snohomish River, or are to these resources, either on-site or off-site, to islands in the Snohomish River. allow water dependent uses. iCity's Vision for Smith and Spencer Islands: 2) Protect estuarine shorelines and wetlands Smith Island and Spencer Island are large of significance. I areas of land separated from the city by the Snohomish River. Located north of the 3) Utilize upland areas and wetlands upland portion of the city and in the approved for alteration (with compensatory I Snohomish River delta, most of the land on mitigation) as spoils disposal sites for these islands that is within the city limits and maintenance dredging of the Snohomish River. west of Interstate 5 is zoned for heavy Irli manufacturing uses. The islands are sporadi- 4) Require public access, both physical and cally developed with a variety of industrial visual, to shoreline areas and link these points, uses and most parcels have been highly where practicable. 11 modified over the past century by diking, farming, filling, building construction, and 5) Require retention of fresh water marshes other land use activities. Development con- which might improve water quality and storm I straints include wetlands, lack of adequate drainage detention. utilities, access difficulties, and massive quantities of fill required to elevate building 6) Provide for sewage treatment facilities, if I sites above the designated flood levels. These environmental impacts can be mitigated and islands have been considered as potential sites environmental quality protected. I for noxious but necessary urban land uses, due to their distance from established neigh- 7) Encourage projects which return portions borhoods and commercial districts. The city's of the estuary to a more natural state. I vision for future land uses in this area include industrial use, various types of recreational 8) Encourage non-structural flood control uses, wetland and habitat enhancement, and measures as part of watershed floodplain I river dredge materials disposal. Current work management planning. to identify and classify wetlands and habitat in the Snohomish River delta may result in 9) Encourage projects that can be used as 111, determining parcels that should be developed, on-site or off-site environmental mitigation. wetlands to be preserved, and areas where significant enhancement of the delta habitat Jshould occur. Development applications shall LU-41 I