The City of Everett has a new plan for growth in its downtown.
With little fanfare, the City Council unanimously today voted to approve a long-range plan that aims to serve as both a blueprint and a catalyst for future downtown development.
The plan aims to change the city skyline. It seeks to bring in more high-rise office towers and add more condominiums and other residential development.
The plan zeros in on the downtown core, generally bounded on the north by Everett Avenue, on the south at Pacific Avenue, and on the east from Broadway to W. Marine View Drive.
It creates detailed urban design guidelines that encourage walking and biking, landscaped medians, attractive street lamps, parks and historic preservation.
It also rezones about 15 downtown blocks from industrial to business uses.
That point led Councilman Mark Olson to suggest the city take a closer look at its unintended consequences on the city?s manufacturing base.
“I am sufficiently concerned about the loss of light industrial uses in our community,” he said.
Reporter David Chircop: 425-339-3429 or dchircop@heraldnet.com.
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