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.