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Everett · EVT-CP-2044 · Pages 57-80

Design and Development Element

The Design and Development Element guides the design of the city's built environment to promote human and environmental health, safety, historic preservation, and community character. It establishes policies for city image, districts and neighborhoods, mixed-use centers, corridors, sustainability, and historic preservation. The element covers 84 numbered policies addressing building design, streetscapes, public art, green building practices, and the protection of Everett's historic and cultural resources.

Community Design Environment Social Economy Governance
Goals (11 total)
  • DD-1: Design new development to enhance distinctive physical, aesthetic, cultural and historic features of its location.
  • DD-2: Building and site designs based on clear and predictable development regulations via a menu of options.
  • DD-3: Everett has a variety of welcoming and inclusive public and private spaces promoting health, happiness, social connection, and well-being.
  • DD-4: Everett is a city of well-designed, safe, and walkable neighborhoods and districts.
  • DD-5: Neighborhoods are designed to enhance human and environmental health and equity.
  • DD-6: Built environment designed for safety, equity, inclusion, and social connection.
  • DD-7: Buildings, streets, and open spaces designed for long-term resilience.
  • DD-8: Buildings incorporate a diversity of architectural styles and innovative technologies.
  • DD-9: Buildings are enduring and resilient, designed with sensitivity to people and place.
  • DD-10: New development is compatible with and uses graceful transitions between differing land use densities.
  • DD-11: Historic and cultural resources and neighborhoods are protected and preserved.
Stronger Policy Language (37 policies)
  • DD-1: Maintain a continuous, consistent, walkable, and human-scaled pedestrian environment at the interface of buildings and the public realm.
  • DD-10: Manage all trees in public rights-of-way, parks, and other public properties, and expand the city's overall tree canopy, replacing trees which must be removed.
  • DD-44: Streets shall be designed for a range of users, for different ages and abilities, as well as for different modes of travel.
  • DD-80: Do not permit new billboards in the city and encourage removal of existing billboards.
Aspirational / Monitoring Language (43 policies)
  • DD-3: Encourage opportunities to make indoor/outdoor connections and support retail or active ground floor uses in frontage zones.
  • DD-6: Encourage and strengthen small-scale commercial and residential development.
  • DD-7: Encourage building and street designs that respect the unique built natural, historic, and cultural characteristics of Everett's centers and corridors.
  • DD-17: Encourage the diversity of design in multi-unit residential developments, including provisions for diverse and innovative façade treatments and architectural styles.

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