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OP(e /1. ORDINANCE NO. 3099-08 AN ORDINANCE amending Ordinance No. 1671-89, as amended(EMC Title 19); Ordinance No. 2397-99, as amended; and Ordinance No. 2854-05, as amended; establishing the "Broadway Mixed Use-BMU"Zone. WHEREAS,the Land Use and Housing Elements of the Comprehensive Plan include strategies for the infill and redevelopment of the mixed use arterial corridors of the city; and WHEREAS, the City of Everett has conducted a Broadway Corridor planning process that identified potential changes in land uses and recommended changes to the development regulations to promote and encourage redevelopment and infill of high density mixed use and commercial uses; and WHEREAS,the City has conducted an extensive public participation process, including four public workshops and a public hearing held by the Planning Commission in which staff and the Commission sought and obtained public input and testimony pertaining to redevelopment in the Broadway Corridor, and the proposed design guidelines and development standards and the proposed rezone; and WHEREAS, the proposed implementing regulations are consistent with the policies of the City of Everett Growth Management Comprehensive Plan; and WHEREAS,the land use regulation changes proposed for the Broadway Corridor promotes a more desirable land use pattern for the Everett community by accommodating projected job and population growth for the Broadway corridor, encouraging mixed use, and improved development standards and design guidelines; and WHEREAS, a SEPA environmental review was completed for the proposed design and development standards for the Broadway corridor, and a Determination of Non-Significance was finalized on January 23, 2008; and WHEREAS,the City Council finds the following: a. The proposed amendments to the zoning code are consistent with the City's Growth Management Comprehensive Plan; and 1