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Urban Form Element

The Urban Form Element establishes the city's overall development pattern including a system of mixed-use centers, corridors, employment areas, and residential neighborhoods guided by land use designations and zoning. It directs most growth to designated centers and transit corridors while protecting natural resources, critical areas, and tribal cultural resources. The element includes detailed land use designation tables, future land use maps, and 74 numbered policies covering land use strategy, residential neighborhoods, centers, corridors, street patterns, and natural area preservation.

Land Use Economy Environment Housing Governance
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.

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