Mohenjo daro 2500 BCE Urban Design - Everett, WA

Mohenjo daro 2500 BCE

Urban Design

DRAFT (SEPT 17) URBAN DESIGN CHAPTER 2 METRO EVERETT

Urban Design Overview

Urban design focuses on the interactions and scale of building groups with streets and public spaces with an overall goal to create engaging urban environments. It is a combination of practices in architecture, landscape architecture, transportation, public works, engineering, and public art to make urban areas functional, attractive and sustainable. Urban design and urban form affect movement of people, goods and services, human interactions with the built and natural environments, and human health.

A mix of building types and forms near downtown

Urban form describes the physical attributes of a city: the natural environment sculpted by the built environment into city blocks connected by streets, alleys, and arterials. The interactions of the built environment; the various building heights and styles, the sidewalks and streets, the transit opportunities, the urban amenities like parks and public art, with that of the natural environment, create a dynamic setting. This chapter is intended to design a policy framework for community development for new construction and redevelopment.


The urban form for Metro Everett was first laid at the end of the 19th century with the initial plats by the Everett Land Company. Blocks in the Metro Everett area are generally uniform in dimension, laid out in a grid-like fashion, roughly 400 feet long north to south, and roughly 250 feet wide east to west. Over time, the greater Metro Everett area came to consist of a pattern of lower-density residential neighborhoods with mostly small, modest buildings just outside to the north and south, higher-density residential neighborhoods with larger and taller buildings buffering the lower-density areas with some, mixed-use corridors and nodes interspersed. Moving inward, a denser, more compact commercial and business core with some mid-rise buildings developed with light industrial uses and character towards the south-east.

Plat of Everett 1892

The urban neighborhood pattern resulted from the early days of Everett’s growth, with a strong vibrant commercial downtown that helped create residential neighborhoods built at a walkable scale. Most residents could reach the shops and services they needed within a few blocks of their homes and workplaces. However, the mid 1900’s witnessed households with more expendable income, increased ownership of automobiles, expansion of Everett’s boundaries with raw, affordable land, and the construction of the interstate system, all of which helped facilitate the exodus of commercial, retail, and business uses out of Everett’s downtown.


Today, Metro Everett is still heavily dominated and impacted by the automobile. However, with relatively recent development of the Everett Transit Station, SWIFT’s bus-rapid-transit, and increased multi-family residential development, Metro Everett is beginning to witness a shift back towards the pedestrian and a desire for a safe and clean walkable environment. The pattern and scale of the streets, open spaces and buildings that make up the city fabric have a direct and daily impact on how residents and citizens move about, patronize local shops and businesses, meet their neighbors and enjoy the city’s amenities. Most of the Metro Everett neighborhood is in a grid-like network of streets and blocks making it very efficient to get around. Pedestrians can walk relatively directly between any two points. However, in some areas, topography and lack of adequate sidewalk and or bike facilities impedes that efficiency. In these areas urban form is impacted and the network needs attention. Urban design can contribute to that by providing the policy framework and development standards for new development projects, to foster an environment where people are not required to drive every time they leave their home in search of goods, services or entertainment.

Urban Form in Multi-Family Residential Areas Neighborhood architecture forms a varied backdrop to the fabric of the built environment in Metro Everett’s multi-family residential neighborhoods. From the porches, gables, dormers, on small, modest sized local vernacular and craftsman styled structures, to the clean lines on larger brick-clad, flat-roofed, mid-century modern apartment homes, all contribute to the eclectic housing landscape. A combination of the new and the old exist side-by-side on many streets, and exemplify encouragement of the new while preserving and appreciating the old. The heights of buildings, building setbacks, building façade design facing streets, the width of sidewalks, the quality of landscaping, all impact the shape and feel of Metro Everett’s neighborhoods.

Mix of housing types and forms along 1100 Block of Pacific and 2600 Block of Rucker.


Urban Form in Commercially Mixed-use Areas Successful mixed-use buildings and areas attract pedestrians by orienting building design to the street, bringing storefronts to the sidewalk’s edge, and provide transitions to nearby structures, keeping building heights to a scale compatible with the immediate neighborhood. Commercially mixed-use areas should be designed in order to be accessible from a balanced variety of transportation modes, including pedestrian, automobiles, transit and bicycles. Neighborhoods, in order to become great urban areas, need new construction projects to prioritize the aesthetic of the pedestrian environment, and emphasize diversity in innovative form and quality materials.

Mix of commercially mixed-use areas and mixed use structures.

Urban Form Downtown and the Skyline The height of buildings in a city’s center conveys a sense of the type and intensity of the area, and it also exemplifies the visual importance within the broader community. The center of Metro Everett and the height of buildings contributes to an understanding of how the area is organized and the importance of its various functions. Metro Everett is a key location of the city to plan for increased population growth. With little available undeveloped land left, the city must grow up, it can no longer grow out. And with increased building heights to accommodate that growth, comes an opportunity for the city to make a positive impact on the future skyline, while ensuring little negative impact on surrounding lower density neighborhoods.


To ensure valuable land area is not underutilized, and to plan for growth in the future, new development should be required to build at a minimum square foot threshold, especially near transit and transit oriented corridors. The massing of large buildings should be mitigated by setbacks, architectural articulations, and open spaces so that they do not become overly visually imposing. Buildings near low density neighborhoods and areas with lower permitted building heights should have height setbacks to accommodate for transition. The tallest buildings should be encouraged to locate near the center of Metro Everett, designed with distinctive architecture elements that exemplify the age, and incorporate several public amenities such as innovative open spaces at the ground level and commercial public spaces near the top. The downtown skyline should over time become a source of civic pride and considered a community asset.

Multi-Family Residential

New multi-family housing developments provide an opportunity to reinforce the urban character of Metro Everett. Building more housing near commercial developments is key to a stronger commercial and mixed-use markets. Locating new multi-family housing developments within close proximity to shopping, employment, cultural and recreational facilities, social services, transportation and other amenities will focus a considerable portion of the city’s growth into Metro Everett, and help build a foundation to a vibrant urban environment. All new multi-family residential developments should thoughtfully engage the streetscape and have a clear connection to the public realm with pedestrian access, windows, architectural details and well-designed landscaping. The scale of the development should complement the character of the surrounding area.


Mixed-Use and Transit-Oriented Development The term mixed-use can apply to a single structure or to a set of buildings that work together as a development. A mixed-use development in one building accommodates more than one use vertically, such as a multi-family residential building with office or retail on the ground floor. A mixed-use development may also be horizontal; a series of single use buildings, some commercial or office and others residential, next to each other. High functioning, transit-oriented developments will almost always include mixed-use development, and most mixed-use developments or areas will be transit-oriented. Transit-oriented development should be located in areas near transit stations and along transit network corridors. New developments should be required to build at a minimum square foot threshold, and actively engage the street. Section of a mixed-use, transit oriented project

Commercial Successful commercial buildings and areas attract pedestrians by bringing their storefronts close to the sidewalk's edge, providing adequate sidewalk space for pedestrian movement, orienting building design to the street, and building to heights that complement the immediate neighborhood. New structures should be considered in terms of its size, scale, intensity of uses and relationship to the street, to users and to its neighbors. When located in mixed-use buildings, most commercial uses should be located within close proximity to pedestrian traffic, however, high-rise buildings present an opportunity to utilize views from the top floors for public benefit.


Industrial Light industrial land uses and creative maker-spaces can create opportunities for innovative economic activity in Metro Everett, and are encouraged to locate in the Urban Industrial zone so as to maximize the existing and historical land uses as well as minimize any potential conflicts with lower density residential uses. These areas are located close to major transit and transportation corridors so as to minimize noise and traffic disruption. New industrial or flex building designs should adhere to the same principles as other development in having quality materials, adequate pedestrian street frontages, architectural features and green spaces. Consolidation or shared parking between uses is encouraged to reduce redundant parking and improve aesthetics. There should be safe and convenient pedestrian connections between new industrial developments and pedestrian or mixed-use streets, and building entrances should be oriented to the street.

Institutional and Civic Buildings As hospitals, public buildings, educational institutions and corporations change, expand and increase their presence in neighborhoods, it can be a challenge for residents and business owners to accommodate these changes in a compatible, mutually advantageous way. Vital, healthy institutions can bring stability and presence to neighborhoods. Thoughtful attention to transitions is one way to balance the location and expansion of these institutions, the scale and character of pedestrian or other street level activity, and neighborhood livability. The design of public buildings and facilities should inspire, transform and catalyze communities. Institutions and public buildings and facilities should set the standard high for urban design in Metro Everett, utilizing quality materials and site planning that are reflective of their prominence and importance to the community.


Parking Facilities A necessary element in an urban setting, parking facilities can have negative visual effects on their surroundings if not designed carefully. All new parking facilities, regardless of whether it is a surface parking lot or a parking structure, should be designed so as to blend in with its surroundings. New surface parking lots should be discouraged due to the limited availability of land coupled with increased pressures to accommodate additional population and job growth over the decades. Any permitted surface parking lots as part of redevelopment or infill projects should be required to be setback from street frontages behind building forms, or buffered with landscaping or public open spaces. New structured parking should be setback from street rights of way with habitable spaces used by tenants of the building. And any new stand-alone parking structures should incorporate commercial or retail uses along the majority of sidewalk frontages.

Public Open Spaces Public open spaces in the Northwest are more successful when they are designed with people in mind for year-round use. These spaces help to break up the visual massing of large buildings, fill in voids in the built environment, and can bring much needed energy into underutilized areas. Updating, improving and maintaining existing public open spaces is essential to their continued use. New public open spaces in Metro Everett should be created with careful attention to site location, accessibility and sustainability. New public open spaces should be located adjacent to sidewalks and alleys in larger redevelopments to help soften the built environment, and to encourage public interest and activity. Public and open spaces and uses should be encouraged at the tops of tall buildings to capitalize on views of both the natural and built environments. And public spaces should also be considered in areas where there is a current lack of public space available. A variety of uses and amenities for public open spaces should be explored to maximize interest and functionality. These spaces can be modest sized plots, such as the plaza north of the Snohomish County complex, or smaller innovative parklets that can provide unique and ephemeral urban experiences.


Streets and Sidewalks Streets and sidewalks serve as the primary pedestrian network and are one of Metro Everett’s greatest opportunities for improving the public realm. Street and sidewalk design is shaped by the relationships of land use, buildings, parking areas, landscaping and public furnishings. Streets designed for pedestrian use contribute to Metro Everett’s public image and energy by encouraging pedestrian circulation and activities, and by integrating the area’s various attractions. To foster this type of environment at the street level, the first floor of buildings need to be designed with the pedestrian in mind. Sidewalks should be generous in width with landscaping treatments, and should have public furnishings, art, and open spaces to encourage public usage. To achieve image consistency within Metro Everett, all new sidewalk pavement should be constructed similarly, unless special paving is recommended, and embedded street names should be incorporated in all reconstructed sidewalks at intersections. Buffers, such as landscaping or bicycle paths, between the sidewalk and vehicular traffic should be incorporated over time with new project developments.

Lighting

Lighting is an important element in the urban environment. The quality and quantity of lighting affects public health, safety, comfort, productivity and economy. Pedestrian scaled lighting should be incorporated with new project developments and comprehensive street improvements of at least a block in length. Arterial lights should also be incorporated for streets with high traffic volumes. Public amenities such as wayfinding sigs, banners, and hanging flower pots should be encouraged with new lighting improvements. The overall goal is to create a safe, comfortable, and attractive environment for residents, businesses, and visitors.


Landscaping Well-designed landscaping helps create and define spaces while softening the built environment. Landscaping provides beauty and visual interest, shade and environmental benefits, as well as screening and buffering of uses. It is important to consider the types of plants and trees and how they will tolerate and impact their surrounding environment. Design that factors in the forms of mature trees and landscaping, be they tall and columnar or squat and mounded, along with the maintenance of the landscaped areas are important factors. The Metro Everett area should have a developed street tree and landscaping plan to help achieve a sense of continuity. Certain streets, such as the gateway corridors, should have a more formal design approach with long-lived stately trees, while smaller local streets could be more informal. Landscaping that incorporates elements of storm water retention, such as raingardens, should also be encouraged.

Signs Sign design needs to balance the desire to convey information with a need to maintain visual aesthetics so that signage is not intrusive. The scale of signage should be relevant to the building’s facades, and geared towards the pedestrian and less to the automobile. Unique signage that incorporates unusual materials or designs should be encouraged.


Metro Everett, City of All Seasons A community that promotes year-round livability and engagement is important for its health, sustainability and economic vitality. Urban design can be utilized to encourage people to celebrate all seasons of the year. Paying close attention to sun angles and weather patterns, buildings and public spaces can invite year-round activity, extending the seasons for things like public markets or concerts in public plazas. Lighting is also an effective means of creating ambience and enlivening a streetscape or neighborhood that invites activity through the dark, damp months of winter. By stepping down building heights and having them grouped with others of similar heights, the effects of the low winter sun can be minimized and help preserve solar access for nearby areas. In addition, areas along the south facades of building projects are opportunities for plazas, open spaces, and pocket parks that provide comfortable seating and weather protection. Streetscaping, landscaping, public art, vibrant colors, intriguing materials and lighting designed with climate sensitive considerations can also enhance and encourage year-round living and public engagement.


Policies Building heights and massing:

Concentrate the tallest buildings near the downtown core.

Promote building designs and heights that enhance and complement the image and form of Metro Everett and provide transition to the edges of downtown.

Building design should allow light and air into the site and surrounding properties.

Design buildings so that shadows on public spaces and adjacent properties is minimized.

MF Res Development:

Strengthen the architectural character of the Metro Everett neighborhood.

Support the development of residential dwellings that are of high quality design.

Promote the development of new housing that complements existing development and the best qualities of the city’s existing housing stock.

Support the development of multi-family residential buildings that are smaller in scale near the edges of Metro Everett, large scale high-rise developments in the core, and a mix of medium scale mid-rise developments in between.

New multi-family development and infill should be designed with pedestrian scale design features at the street level.

Provide appropriate physical transition and separation using green space, setbacks or orientation, and stepped down height to improve the compatibility between higher density and lower density residential uses.

Orient buildings and building entrances to the street with pedestrian amenities like wider sidewalks and landscaping.

Street-level building walls should include an adequate distribution of windows and architectural features in order to create visual interest at the pedestrian level.

Integrate transit facilities and bicycle parking amenities into the site design. MU Corridors

Encourage both mixed-use buildings and a mix of uses in separate buildings where appropriate.

Require minimum building heights and square-footages for new development.

Promote building and site design that delineates between public and private spaces.

Provide safe, accessible, convenient, and lighted way-finding to transit stops and transit stations along the key transit corridors.


Commercial

Enhance the Metro Everett area by encouraging appropriate building forms and designs, site plans that enhance the pedestrian environment, and by creating and maintaining high quality year-round public open spaces and infrastructure.

Orient new buildings to the street to foster safe and successful commercial nodes and corridors.

Require storefront window transparency for both surveillance and an inviting pedestrian experience.

Curb the inefficient use of land by regulating minimum height, setbacks, build-to lines and parking through zoning code regulations.

Industrial

Design light industrial uses with appropriate transitions and other design features which minimize negative impacts on surrounding residential uses.

Promote quality design and building orientation of industrial development that is appropriate with the surrounding neighborhoods.

Institutional and Civic Buildings

Work with institutional and public partners to assure that the scale and form of new development or expansion will occur in a manner most compatible with the surrounding area.

Develop building forms at the edges of institutional property that are complementary to neighboring properties, yet recognize that in some circumstances greater height and mass may be preferable to expansion beyond existing campus boundaries.

Encourage institutional uses and public buildings and facilities to incorporate architectural and site design that is reflective of their civic importance and that identifies their role as focal points for the community.

Promote active uses at the ground floor level and adjacent to public sidewalks. Public Spaces

Encourage development that provide safe, functional and attractive gathering spaces.

Encourage the creation of new parks and plazas.

Improve public access to the riverfront and harbor front.

Develop public plaza standards that give specific guidance on preferred design and maintenance of seating, lighting, landscaping and other amenities.

Maintenance of public open space areas within private development should be the responsibility of the property owner.


Streets, Sidewalks, and the Pedestrian Environment

The ground floor of buildings should be occupied by active uses with direct connections to the sidewalk.

Building facades should have a minimum percentage of transparency to allow for views dependent on street designation.

Ensure that buildings incorporate design elements that eliminate long stretches of blank, inactive building walls such as windows, green walls, architectural details, and murals.

Improve access management and way-finding to and from all streets, sidewalks, and other pedestrian connections.

Integrate components in building designs that offer protection to pedestrians, such as awnings and canopies, as a means to encourage pedestrian activity along the street.

Coordinate site designs and public right-of-way improvements to provide adequate sidewalk space for pedestrian movement, street trees, landscaping, street furniture, sidewalk cafes and other elements of active pedestrian areas.

Encourage wider sidewalks along pedestrian streets, mixed use corridors and transit oriented corridors.

Provide streetscape amenities, including street furniture, trees, and landscaping, that buffer pedestrians from auto traffic, parking areas, and adverse weather.

Integrate placement of street furniture and fixtures, including landscaping and lighting, to serve abutting land uses and not obstruct pedestrian pathways and pedestrian flow.

Lighting

Provide high-quality lighting fixture designs that are appropriate to street types and land use, and that provide pedestrian friendly illumination, but minimize glare and dark sky conditions, and other unnecessary light pollution.

Require circuit installations below grade for new developments.

Encourage pedestrian scale lighting throughout neighborhoods for all new development.

Integrate exterior building lighting design with building design and landscaping.


Appendix X – Everett Urban Design Policies Policy 8.1.6 Enhance the quality of development throughout the city over time through the use of design guidelines/standards and design review. Implement the design guidelines/standards and design review to ensure the quality of development throughout the city is enhanced over time. Policy 8.1.8 Require transit‐oriented development in the Metropolitan Center near bus rapid transit stations and near future light rail stations. Policy 8.1.9 Collaborate with Snohomish County on design measures to improve the quality of development in the city’s Urban Growth Area. Policy 8.1.10 Establish a sign amortization program to reduce the clutter of large signs and billboards along major streets. Policy 8.1.11 Encourage all public buildings to serve as models of superior design quality and convey a sense of civic importance. Policy 8.1.12 Require all public buildings, spaces, transportation facilities and infrastructure to be designed to contribute to livability, a desirable sense of place and community identity. In addition, transportation facilities and infrastructure shall be designed to contribute to safety. Policy 8.1.13 Provide major entrance points into Everett with attractive, welcoming signage and landscaping to create a visually dramatic and attractive gateway effect. Policy 8.1.14 Provide a comprehensive system of way‐finding signs to direct residents and visitors from I‐5 and the major city gateways to amenities in the city including the downtown, the waterfront, riverfront, historic districts and attractions, scenic viewpoints, major institutions and other points of interest. Policy 8.1.15 Give parks, greenbelts and open spaces extraordinary attention with respect to design, conservation, and maintenance, because they strongly contribute to the livability of Everett’s neighborhoods. Policy 8.1.16 Protect public views of distant mountains and water whenever feasible as new development is approved.


Policy 8.1.17 Retain and adapt Everett’s stock of older commercial and institutional buildings to new uses on City owned and maintained property, and encourage retention and adaptive reuse of such buildings on private property, so they may continue to contribute to the city’s image. Policy 8.2.1 Encourage traditional grid street and sidewalk patterns and other historic street and sidewalk patterns in historic neighborhoods. Policy 8.2.7 Encourage additions to historic buildings to be designed in a manner sensitive and complementary to the original building design, context and landscaping. Policy 8.3.1 Direct a portion of the city’s capital and operating revenues toward strengthening, preserving, and enhancing neighborhoods. Policy 8.3.4 Design physical improvements in districts and neighborhoods throughout the city to create a sense of personal safety and security while retaining appropriate trees and other landscaping. Policy 8.3.6 Require major commercial development projects within each district to contribute positively to the character of their surroundings, including appropriate trees and landscaping with continual maintenance. Policy 8.3.7 Design civic facilities as community focal points, incorporating such elements as unique and dramatic architecture, usable outdoor space, specimen plantings, artwork, water features, and views. Policy 8.4.2 Designate “Gateway Arterial Streets” which can, over time, be upgraded to include features such as street trees, special lighting, broad sidewalks, banners and planted medians that will produce visually appealing linear corridors into the city. (Possible candidates: Everett, Pacific, Hewitt, North Broadway to Broadway & 41st, 112th, Evergreen Way, Everett Mall Way and 19th Avenue SE.) Policy 8.4.3 Require development along each of the gateway arterials to be consistent with an adopted design plan that includes guidelines and incentives intended to project a more pedestrian‐friendly character for the community. Policy 8.4.5 Encourage Hewitt Avenue to serve a strong visual and functional connection between the river and the harbor, and contain interpretive signage about important people, buildings, and events in Everett’s history.


Policy 8.4.7 Develop a system of pedestrian friendly, convenient, attractive access to transit with visually consistent transit shelters that incorporate landscaping and artwork with features that reflect community character. Policy 8.5.1 Incorporate special guidelines for both site design and building design in the city’s Land Use Code to ensure a compatible relationship between commercial and residential development and between multiple‐family and single‐family development. Policy 8.5.2 Incorporate special guidelines in the city’s Land Use Code to ensure a compatible relationship between designated historic structures and adjacent new development or renovation. Policy 8.5.6 Require quality planting design incorporating native species when possible and continued maintenance to help soften development. Policy 8.6.1 Consider amendments to the City’s land use code, as necessary, to improve standards that reinforce pedestrian‐friendly development in downtown, especially in areas designated as retail streets. Policy 8.6.2 Encourage redevelopment to include dense, mid‐rise, and where allowed by development standards, high‐rise housing in mixed use buildings in the downtown. Policy 8.6.3 Improve all downtown streets consistent with the standards of the Downtown Streetscape Plan. Policy 8.6.4 Encourage development of well‐designed publicly accessible open spaces near or next to major buildings to provide gathering spaces for the enjoyment of residents, tenants, customers and visitors in the downtown. Policy 8.6.7 Monitor the quality of signs installed in the downtown under the 2006 revisions to the B‐3 zone regulations and amend as may be necessary to ensure that sign standards reinforce the pedestrian‐friendly character desired. Policy 8.6.8 Encourage art in public places, both permanent and temporary, throughout the downtown. Policy 8.6.10 Develop a phased program for relocating overhead utility lines into underground conduits.


Policy 8.6.11 Monitor the effectiveness of design standards in the zoning code and amend as necessary to improve the character of redevelopment and contribute positively to the downtown streetscape and skyline. Policy 8.6.12 Monitor the effectiveness of design standards of the zoning code for parking facilities, either surface or structured, and amend as necessary so they do not dominate the character of downtown; and ensure that the design of such facilities enhances their visual setting. Policy 8.6.13 Encourage new or renovated parking structures to include street‐level commercial uses, planting, and architectural proportions to make them compatible with surrounding buildings. Policy 8.6.14 Monitor the effectiveness of zoning regulations and amend as necessary to ensure that surface parking lots in the downtown area do not dominate the streetscape and that when new parking lots are built, they are located, designed and landscaped to contribute positively to the overall pedestrian‐friendly environment desired for downtown. Policy 8.8.1 Designate the following arterials and highways as “gateway corridors” for which particular attention will be given to design and maintenance of public improvements and the application of standards to development of abutting properties: Broadway north of 41st Street, North Broadway, West Marine View Drive, Pacific Avenue, Hewitt Avenue, Everett Avenue, Rucker Avenue between 19th Street and 43rd Street, Colby Avenue, Mukilteo Boulevard, 41st Street, Evergreen Way, Everett Mall Way, 19th Avenue SE, 128th – 132nd Street corridor, SR 526, and Interstate 5. Policy 8.8.2 Give priority to the design and development of visual and transportation improvements for the following gateway corridors serving downtown to encourage and stimulate the redevelopment of downtown consistent with the Land Use, Housing and Economic Development policies of the comprehensive plan: Broadway north of 41st Street, North Broadway, Hewitt Avenue, Everett Avenue, Pacific Avenue, Colby Avenue, Rucker Avenue between 19th and 43rd Streets, and West Marine View Drive. Policy 8.8.3 Include aesthetic as well as functional considerations in the design and implementation of public improvement projects in any of the designated gateway corridors identified in this section to support and enhance the visual quality, livability and character of the city. Such aesthetic considerations shall include, but not be limited to, appropriate street trees and plantings, utility structures such as street lighting and traffic control devices, public right‐of‐way signs, retaining walls and pedestrian safety rails, bicycle lanes, transit benches and shelters, signage and other right‐of‐way improvements as appropriate.


Policy 8.8.4 Develop street tree planting and maintenance plans for public rights‐of‐way for designated gateway corridors and plant trees as is financially possible. First priority should be given to downtown and to those portions of gateways that create a positive first impression for people entering the city (for example, along those gateways immediately adjacent to and leading into the city from freeway off‐ramps). Policy 8.8.6 Require the design of sites, buildings, landscaping and signs that are developed on properties abutting the designated gateway corridors to be of a quality that upgrades and enhances the aesthetic character of the City in general and the immediate area in particular. Policy 8.8.7 Work with property and business owners along gateway corridors to develop and implement streetscape improvement plans both within the public right‐of‐way and on properties abutting the right‐of‐way. Such improvement plans shall be coordinated with Snohomish County for the unincorporated portions of corridors that are located in the Everett Planning Area. Policy 8.8.8 Consider developing site and building design guidelines and/or standards that apply to properties developed along designated gateway corridors.

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