Key Commitments
36,500 new dwellings by 2044; 179,200 total population by 2044; Metro Everett capacity 13,000 dwelling units and 25,000 jobs by 2044
Goals
(8 total)
- UF-1: Everett is designed for people: built environment serves needs of all, promoting prosperity, health, equity, and resiliency.
- UF-2: Everett is an integrated city of residential, mixed use, commercial, industrial, public facilities, open space, and natural habitats.
- UF-3: Metro Everett is a carefully designed, attractive, bustling, and diverse metropolitan center.
- UF-4: Everett is a city of neighborhoods that are healthy, equitable, and sustainable.
- UF-5: Ensure the continued growth and vitality of Everett's employment areas.
- UF-6: Natural areas and wildlife habitats are protected and restored.
- UF-7: Critical areas are preserved to promote and protect public health, safety, welfare, and environment.
- UF-8: Land, waters, and shorelines significant to Tulalip tribal culture are protected.
Stronger Policy Language (50 policies)
- UF-2: Determine, implement, and maintain Comprehensive Plan land use designations through zoning designations and target densities shown in the Future Land Use Designations table.
- UF-46: Designate, classify, and regulate protection of critical areas, consistent with state law and state agency rules.
- UF-53: Development proposals that may impact critical areas or their buffers must include a critical area analysis, report, and impact mitigation plan, prepared by a qualified professional.
- UF-56: Prohibit alteration of Category I wetlands; discourage alteration of Category II wetlands; and where wetland impacts are unavoidable, require replacement and compensation.
Aspirational / Monitoring Language (20 policies)
- UF-51: Evaluate a program to retrofit existing roads with water quality and quantity stormwater system improvements to minimize pollution from roadway runoff.
- UF-61: Consider correcting the highest priority fish passage barriers to improve the conservation of ESA-listed and non-listed salmonid and residential fish populations.
- UF-65: Maximize retention of healthy tree cover and native vegetation. Encourage restoration, replacement, and enhancement of unhealthy trees and disturbed vegetation.
- UF-66: Piped stream segments should be daylighted during redevelopment where scientific analysis demonstrates that substantial habitat function can be restored.