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Residents urge zoning limits and historic overlay for small Terrace Drive and Hoyt Avenue blocks amid city comprehensive‑plan process

3563077 · May 16, 2025
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Speakers during public comment urged the council to avoid high‑density rezoning on Terrace Drive and parts of Hoyt Avenue, and asked for a historic overlay; staff said the draft comp plan contains a proposed UR‑4 designation for seven parcels at 19th Street but the map can change before final adoption.

Several Everett residents used the public‑comment period to press the city to limit rezoning pressure in small, older residential blocks and to seek historic protections.

Eric Nordine, who said he lives on the 4300 block of Terrace Drive, told the council the two‑block street is a “quiet neighborhood residential street” and said the draft comprehensive plan’s proposed mixed‑use designations along nearby Rucker Avenue should not extend to Terrace Drive. “I think any MU designation is inappropriate…

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