Ordinance 2163-96 - Laserfiche WebLink

• • • • 3 • ///%Ei • CITY OF EVERETT !/E?ETT ORDINANCE # An Ordinance Amending the City of Everett Zoning Map, as adopted by Ordinance #1671-89, as amended, by Rezoning Certain Properties to Implement the Land Use Map of the Everett Comprehensive Plan, as Part of the Annual Update to the Comprehensive Plan Initiated in 1995 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 on an annual basis; and WHEREAS, the City of Everett initiated its first annual comprehensive plan amendment process in 1995, which included consideration of Land Use Map amendment and rezone applications initiated by private property owners, Land Use Map amendments and rezones initiated by the City to resolve conflicts between the Comprehensive Plan Land Use Map and Zoning Map, and amendments to the text and policies of the Comprehensive Plan; 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, mailing to affected property owners, legal publication, posting of affected properties, and the City of Everett cable television bulletin board; and WHEREAS,the Planning Commission has conducted Public Workshops and Public Hearings to consider all of the proposed amendments to the Land Use Map of the Comprehensive Plan which were initiated in 1995 and has made recommendations to the City Council on each of the proposed map amendments; and WHEREAS,the Planning Commission has conducted Public Workshops and Public Hearings between September, 1995 and May, 1996 to consider all of the proposed amendments to the text and policies of the Comprehensive Plan which were initiated in 1995; and WHEREAS, the Planning Commission has considered all of the proposed Comprehensive Plan Land Use Map and Policy amendments as well as implementing rezones, so that the cumulative effects of all amendments have been fully ascertained, as required by the Growth Management Act; and