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Planning commission reviews housekeeping amendments to Everett 2044 zoning code

5854381 · August 20, 2025
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City planning staff presented an initial batch of technical and clarifying edits to Title 19 and related Everett 2044 implementing regulations, highlighting proposed deletions and wording changes (including a contested "street facing dwelling unit facade" definition) and noting follow-up work and outreach before formal adoption.

City planning staff presented the first batch of housekeeping amendments to Everett’s revised development regulations during the Everett Planning Commission meeting on Aug. 19. York Stevens Wojc, the city’s planning director, told commissioners the ordinances implementing Everett 2044 became effective July 8 and staff are now ironing out drafting errors, clarifications and minor consistency issues in Title 19. The changes aim to correct numbering and wording, clarify terms that affect design standards and provide limited exemptions for minor remodels, staff said. "The baseline and easiest thing is to just delete the definition," York Stevens Wojc said of the definition for "street facing dwelling unit facade," a deletion staff said would make related rules apply to whole facades rather than only ground-floor…

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