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• • ORDINANCE NO. 2203-{97 An Ordinance Amending and Finalizing the Emergency Measure of the City of Everett Comprehensive Plan Related to Adult Use Businesses and Making the Policies Permanent, Amending Ordinance No. 2143-96, Repealing Section 6 of Ordinance No. 2143-96, and Repealing Sections 1 and 2 of Ordinance No. 2177-96. WHEREAS, the City of Everett adopted a new Comprehensive Plan in August, 1994, in conformance with the Washington State Growth Management Act; and WHEREAS,the Growth Management Act, codified as RCW Chapter 36.70A, allows for comprehensive plans to be amended whenever an emergency exists; and WHEREAS, the City Council, following public hearings before the Planning Commission and City Council, adopted on an emergency basis Comprehensive Plan policies for adult use businesses on May 8, 1996 for a six-month period; and WHEREAS, the City Council, following public hearings before the Planning Commission and City Council, extended the Comprehensive Plan policies for adult use businesses an additional six months to allow for the City to review technical issues raised before the Growth Hearings Board, and to allow for additional public participation in the development of final comprehensive plan policies for adult use businesses; and WHEREAS, an environmental analysis of the proposed Comprehensive Plan amendments has been conducted by the City in compliance with the requirements of the State Environmental Policy Act(SEPA); and WHEREAS,the City of Everett has encouraged public participation in the consideration of Amendments to the Comprehensive Plan, as required by the Growth Management Act, through a variety of notification procedures, including SEPA review, mailing to interested citizens and organizations, legal publication, and the City of Everett cable television bulletin board, public workshops and public hearings; and WHEREAS,the Planning Commission conducted a public workshop on December 17, 1996 and a public hearing on January 21, 1997,to consider the proposed amendments to the Land Use Element policies of the Comprehensive Plan related to adult use businesses, and has made recommendations to the City Council; and WHEREAS,the concurrence of the Adult Use Business policy amendment process and the Annual Update to the Comprehensive Plan has enabled the City Council to consider the proposed policy amendments for adult use businesses together with all of the proposed annual Comprehensive Plan Land Use Map and Policy amendments and implementing rezones, so that the cumulative effects of all amendments have been fully ascertained; and 1