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481 Novevher 22,fat. The regular meeting of the Everett City Council was called to order at 8:00 am,November 22,1978 in the Hearing Room of the County Courthouse with President Gipson presiding and ail eounuihmen in attendance: GROWTH MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION Dick Thompson,Administrative Assistant,said this meeting was being held to discuss what was going to happen to the City of Everett. He said the 1 staff was asking that the Council ask questions or make comments on their thoughts regarding growth in the city. Councilman Baker said her:first question would be what tools are available to the Council to manage growth Councilman Michelson felt one of the problems was that the Council did not go twit and look at the items brought on the agenda that they would have to either approve or reject and Councilman Langus agreed,saying that sometimes the Staff reports are confusing and it would be better if the Council...Id go out and look at the projects. III=ranr:XX:IeiInZrtnal.nr'OM rottr:n2t:I4=g,12n1=1; • there prior to the annexation. • Councilman Overstreet agreed and asked how does the city coordinate the citg.s growth with the county government, Councilman Pope answered that the Puget Sound Council of Governments is working on coordiaation between the county and the city on this type of problem. President Gipson suggested that there are many areas that cannot stand additional growth without upgrading facilities and Councilman Pope agreed saying the transportation system would definitely have to be upgraded. I Councilman Michelson felt some of these improvements should be paid for 11 by an II, Councilman Langus said he really wasn't sure whether the city wanted to grow anymore and Councilman Baker asked if the city could prevent growth and should the city do this. • Councilman Michelson then asked if it was legal to require certain_regu- lations of the developer and Mr.Thompson replied yes. President Gipson asked what liabilities there would be by imposing Certain regulations. Councilman Pope felt the regulations regarding a lot fee for parks and recreation development was good,and possibly the developer should be required to pay a road fee also along this Came idea. Councilman Overstreet asked what was growth,was the Council all looking at it the same. He said it could mean growth in acreage.growth in gogula- tion,growth in different types of zoning. There were many different defi- nitions of the word growth. Reid Shoe.,Community Development Director,said he was interpreting 1 some of these comments to mean,what growth do we accept to get the growth we want, 11 Councilman Langus then questioned whether the city actually wanted to annex any more propertY. IL