Everett planners weigh bigger stream buffers, stream-typing rules as code update moves forward
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.
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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.
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