The Zoning Report: Zoning to Block Uses, Permits for Covered Patios, Non-Conforming Uses, Tribal Planning Coordination, & Rural Growth Forecast
Volume 1, Issue 2
Welcome to the second issue of The Zoning Report (TZR), a feature available to paid subscribers. Each issue of TZR covers a range of current zoning, land use, planning, and economic development issues and stories. Paid subscribers also have exclusive access other premium content.
Zoning to Block Uses - Everett Zoning Blocks Social Services Downtown
Zoning codes often cause builders and busineses a lot of problems. But they can also cause issues for non-profits and service providers who find themselves zoned out of locations.
For this story we start by jumping in a time machine to go back to August of 2018 when the City of Everett adopted The Metro Everett Plan, a plan that sought to address the city’s increasing GMA population and employment targets by laying out the vision for a downtown subarea that encouraged more mixed use residential and commercial development.
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