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4*14 "' EV E RETT Ordinance No. 2036-95 An Ordinance of the City of Everett Revising the Land Use Map of the Everett Growth Management Comprehensive Plan as Adopted by Section 1 of Ordinance No. 2021-94, and Adding A Policy to the Industrial Land Use Policies Related to the Land Use Map. WHEREAS, the Everett City Council adopted Ordinance No. 2021-94 on August 3, 1994 adopting the Everett Growth Management Comprehensive Plan in accordance with the requirements of the Washington State Growth Management Act; and WHEREAS, the Growth Management Act requires that the City's Zoning Map be consistent with the Land Use Map of the Growth Management Comprehensive Plan; and WHEREAS, the City Council did acknowledge in Section 8 of Ordinance No. 2021-94 that the City Zoning Map must be revised, and that in consideration of revisions to the Zoning Map the Council would need to consider further refinements to the Land Use Map of the Growth Management Comprehensive Plan, where appropriate; and WHEREAS, the City of Everett sent by mail to all mailing addresses within the Everett Planning Area a brochure informing citizens of the recent adoption of the comprehensive plan and the dates of Planning Commission public hearings to take testimony on the proposed rezone actions to implement the comprehensive plan; and WHEREAS, the City notified owners of property within proposed rezone areas of public hearings to discuss the proposed rezoning of various parts of the City; and WHEREAS, the Planning Commission held public hearings on September 13, 1994, and September 27, 1994, at which they listened to public testimony, reviewed correspondence, and deliberated upon each rezone proposal; and WHEREAS, the Planning Commission held two additional public meetings on October 4, 1994, and October 18, 1994, to discuss each of the proposed rezone areas, and recommended that several of the areas proposed to be rezoned should retain the existing zoning or be changed to a different zoning than suggested by the comprehensive plan; and WHEREAS, through public testimony and reconsideration of the circumstances affecting several areas which the Comprehensive Plan had suggested for rezoning, the City Council finds that it is in the City's best interests to retain the existing zoning or establish a different zoning than suggested by the Comprehensive Plan land use map; and