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Everett planners weigh bigger stream buffers, stream-typing rules as code update moves forward
Summary
Planning staff presented a draft update to Everett's critical areas code that would adopt updated stream-typing definitions, revisit buffer widths for fish-bearing (Type F) and non-fish streams and add incentives for daylighting culverted streams; staff said it will return Jan. 20 with maps and draft code language.
Teddy Holbrook, the City of Everett environmental planner, briefed the Planning Commission on Jan. 6 on a draft critical areas code update and urged the commission to focus on two questions: whether to adopt updated Washington Administrative Code stream-typing definitions and what buffer-width standard best preserves ecological function while limiting impacts on development.
Holbrook said the city posted an Oct. 31 review draft online and has collected comments from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW), the Department of Natural Resources, the Tulalip and Snoqualmie tribes, the Master Builders Association and Sound Transit. "We've received comments from several public agencies and some public," he said, and staff is preparing a comment-response matrix that…
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